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Special mention must be made of the local flavor of "English" - while [[Engrish]] is also commonplace due to [[Blind Idiot Translation|lazy translators]], '''Singlish''' is what gives the Singaporean experience its unique, 101% genuine feel ([[Don't Explain the Joke|the extra 1% is because we're kiasu (scared to lose out)]]). Singlish is a bizarre amalgamation of a language, made mostly of English with choicy bits of Malay, Mandarin, and various Chinese dialects like Hokkien mixed in. Don't mock the language by speaking it poorly, as it'll only make you sound even sillier than we do.
Neil Humphreys, a thoroughly decent bloke from Dagenham, has written a really good trilogy of books on his life in Singapore, starting with ''Notes from an Even Smaller Island''. <ref> In case you're wondering, the title references [[Bill Bryson]]'s ''Notes From A Small Island'', where the island was [[
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