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Awesome! "quan min luan jiang, not quan ming ruan jiang" Somehow it just reminds me of "flied lice"!
that is amazing, the wonders of the internet today. thank you anonymous transcriber for posting what i spent most of yesterday trawling the web to find.
TVD: "flied lice"? --zigackly! ferpectly right! (And this one is not PM's fault at all.)
haloscan2: (on behalf of the transcriber) you're welcome.
Something else a bit on the boh liao side: There is now a lot of talk about mee siam mai harm (which makes no sense sense cockles were never an option for mee siam). More charitably, I tend to think that PM meant to say mee siam mai hiam, but that is odd too (though not as odd than the former): it is also the case that hiam (or perhaps extra hiam) is not usually an option for mee siam.
There is one other possibility: PM meant to say laksa mai hiam, which would make sense because, as far as I can recall, extra hiam (in the form of additional sambal) is often offered as an option. This blog is claiming that PM's press secretary has clarified that he meant to say laksa, but I am still waiting for an official source. Any one has any ideas?
Hi all,
Whoever transcribed the speech, kudos to him!
I think that we should spend our time really reading between the lines and implications of the speech than to waste time on whether our PM wants laksa or mee siam in his speech, with or without cockles.
Best regards,
BL
I'm sorry for commenting twice but I just discovered something strange that I think deserves more attention. In the transcript now on Sprinter the whole part about the mee siam is gone. Just like that. My reference to the memory hole is more apt than I thought.
SPRINTER transcript:
So last year, for the rally I showed two little clips in a very small way, putting my toe into the water – “Tau Gay Not Enough” and “Tau Gay Never Enough”. That’s a harmless form of the new media but in fact, we have some serious decisions to make because we have to decide how far to go, what tone to set and it’s not just all fun and games. You put out a funny podcast. Then what will I do? I will hire Jack Neo to be my National Day Rally adviser. It will be a fun time, we will enjoy thoroughly, go home totally entertained but is this the way to deal serious issues? And the problem is it wouldn’t stop with fun and games. You will go to distortions, you will go to half-truths, you will go untruths, the tone of the debate will go down eventually, you race to the bottom.
Singapore Angle transcript:
So, last year, for the rally I showed two little clips, in a very small way putting my toe into the water--Tau Gay Not Enough and Tau Gay Never Enough. That's a harmless form of the new media. But in fact we have some serious decisions to make because we have to decide how far to go, what tone to set. And it's not just all fun and games. I give you an example. You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee [laughter]. I will say mee siam mai harm [Editor's note: possibly mee siam mai hiam; see this]. Then we compete. Then what will I do? I will hire Jack Neo to be my National Day Rally adviser [laughter]. It'll be a fun time, we will enjoy thoroughly, go home totally entertained. But is this the way to deal with serious issues? And the problem is, it won't stop with fun and games. You'll go to distortions, you'll go to half-truths, you'll go to untruths, the tone of the debate will go down, eventually, you race to the bottom.
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Part of LHL's speech transcribed
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25. So our society has to evolve, our media have to evolve. The mainstream media--television, newspapers, radio--they are under siege. They worry that all the eyeballs will go somewhere else, and they have to find ways to hold these eyeballs to keep making sure that they are relevant and they can fulfill their role, [and] they have an important role to play. So they have to adapt but they have to remain objective, maintain a high quality newspaper, and if you read something in the Straits Times or on CNA, you must know that it's real. It's quite different from reading this, say, on Talkingcock.com [laughter]. You know which is the serious place and which one is that one, well, for fun. Inform, educate, entertain, but play a constructive role in a new way in Singapore.
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Bullshit! That's all I gotta say about that.
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