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The Agenda: From Ah Gong to Gen Z, can you still speak your grandparents' Singlish?
Singlish is often seen as a defining part of Singapore's identity. From "lah" and "lor" to uniquely local phrases, it weaves its way through conversations across homes, schools, and workplaces. But is the Singlish we speak today the same as the one our grandparents grew up with? Linguists say the language has been evolving for decades, shaped by changing education policies, shifting language preferences, and the gradual decline of dialect use in Singapore. As older expressions disappear and new ones emerge, some features of traditional Singlish may already be fading away. So what exactly has…
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