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. #Singlish 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.

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.

#language #english