COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT & FREELANCE WRITER
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This humourous poem about the the inconsistencies in English grammar and vocabulary has to be one of the most forwarded emails.
While it pokes fun at English and the English, the poem also captures the frustrations a student faces in the process of learning English as a foreign or second language.
Does anyone have the [...]
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During a semester break, I answered a newspaper ad looking for telemarketers to promote a holiday resort in Cameron Highlands.
After qualifying the phone interview, I went up to a hotel room at Merlin Hotel (now Dorset Hotel) in Penang and met a friendly 30-something year old American in a business suit.
The two adjoining hotel rooms had cubicles flanked against [...]
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Original article “Cunning Couples” in The Star’s “Mind Your English” column (5 Feb 2009).
YOU can easily acquire an American, Australian, British or Canadian accent with speech training or from living several years abroad and come across as someone fluent in English. But you give yourself away if you use words wrongly, especially in e-mails, faxes [...]
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