Dave Rahardja<p>I grew up in Singapore, where a creole/pidgin variant of English called “Singlish” was widely spoken: it’s a mixture of English, Malay, and various Chinese dialects, with inflections and sentence structures borrowed from those non-English sources. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Singlish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Singlish</span></a> was commonly derided as low-class and inferior, especially by people who went to the UK for their studies. But I always loved it and loved learning it, because it unlocked so much of the culture and inner worlds of the people who spoke it.</p><p>No language is inferior. No “slang” is undesirable. All language is invented anyway, so love them the same, as long as the goal is communication and understanding.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>english</span></a></p>