ask any singaporeans how they feel when they've won something and they'll say this about 99.9%: "i feel very happy -- blahblahblah". you could say"oh! i'm over the moon...blahblahblah" or something corny like that but noooooooooooo. you chose to say "happy" . that basic, raw word that has many sub-roots and levels that expresses much, much more than the mere "happy". why do we use words like "sad" or excited"? it's just not fun anymore.
picture this: you ask me how's that cherry pie you just baked taste like. and i say "oh, it's nice". do you like it when i say that? do you go fuming mad (that's another great exaple of using the word "angry") when i say that? after you'd baked that pie for, what, one hour? and all i said was "it's nice". no! of course you wouldn't like that. you'd probably go something like below:
"what, thats it? after all the shits i've been through and that's all you've gotta say?! what are you a moron? can't express yourself? what, you have 'i-can't-express-myself-itis'? is that what you have? huh? what? i can't hear yooooooooou!"
you know where i'm going at, right? no? then you seriously are liguistically challenged. seek professional help. NOW.
i mean english is taught to us at a very early age. but some of us still use this vile language that i hear ever so often. and what's that lagnuage you ask? why it's *looks around in suspicious manner*.... singlish. da-da-daaaaaaaaaaam (supposed to be that horror theme but...argh nvm).
what is this crude language? where is the root of that evil? who actually uses that horrid tongue? and who's bad breath is that on my neck? uh-oh. that's not funny. who is that? oh, it's just my pet lion, lionel. ha ha.
right, uhh, where was i? oh, yes. why use the same words everytime for expressing your feelings. try using the thesaurus for exchange. you know, that book which contains words that has other different words instead of "happy" or "sad". no, not a dictionary. a thesaurus. it's like a -- why am i explaining this to you?
*at this point i've lost all sanity and are breaking just about everything in the house*
on a final note: unless you have an iq that of what you're sitting on, improve on your speech. it'll help your career later on. don't be like that maths teacher i once had. that guy seriously has english problems that is beyond repair.
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