tips, thoughts, and advice from a language geek
Common messages relating to business hours are often distorted here in Singapore. Sometimes the sign says ‘business hours’, sometimes it says ‘operating hours’, sometimes it says ‘operation hours’, sometimes it says ‘opening hours’. I...
In Singapore, the answer to a question will often be “I also don’t know.” The implication is that the asker doesn’t know and that the answerer is thus the second person who doesn’t know....
Today at Parkway Parade I saw a sign on a cosmetics store that said “powerful-strength line-reducing concentrate”. I read it as an advertisement for a reducer of ‘strength lines’ and momentarily wondered what a...