Tag Archives: DIALECT

Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information and Health, Chee Hong Tat, has tried to scold Li Shengwu, the grandson of Lee Kuan Yew and the son of Lee Hsien Yang, after the latter made a Facebook post criticizing Singapore's judiciary.

Looking back, if our ‘Speak Mandarin’ and ‘Speak English’ campaigns were enforced fully, yet dialects were still allowed, would they have been any less effective? Or was it crucial for a strong hand to steer the linguistic tracks of a diverse immigrant state on the road to a few common viable languages?