Have you ever heard the Jia Jia Liang Teh advertisment? I heard it once only, and suspect it might have been my mistake... but I think I heard the words "Jia Jia Liang Teh".
What's wrong? Well, "Jia" and "Liang" are mandarin words, while "Teh" is a dialect word. They're not supposed to appear in the same sentence...
I once ordered, at a dim sum place, "Cha Shao Sou". It sounds alright to me, but actually its a mixture of mandarin "Cha Shao Su" and Cantonese "Cha Siew Sou". The waitress didn't understand me and I also didn't know what was wrong until Lu-En corrected me. hahaha..
and anyway, if Singapore is trying to teach good English/Mandarin, why would they allow an advertisement that mixes both Mandarin and dialect? hmm...
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i tot it quite ingenious leh...now everuone will know this brand. only their cha is called teh.
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