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Same in Sinkers unfortch...
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Great thread here. A stain on our history. To be clear, the promotion of Mandarin was a good move. It was the denigration of dialect that wasn't.
I've been digging into the digitised holdings of the National Archives of Singapore to find posters of the Speak Mandarin Campaign which decimated "#dialect" use in favour of Mandarin. Launched in 1979, here is one of the earliest posters from the same year: (1/16)
Gotta shill for The Unlocking Podcast since I see the producers don't have a presence on Twitter....
open.spotify.com/show/7aKOUv…
Finished listening to it after a little over a year. It's really a gem; a labour of love, doing the deities' work, etc.
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...though the episodes do require close listening if you're not familiar with the Mandarin names of erstwhile Singapore political parties and players in the scene.
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Starting Monday off with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Cat Power....@maryannehobbs warming the cockles of this '90s kid's heart.
Utterly drained from redeeming SingapoRediscover vouchers. Didn't bother with them when they were first announced because the process looked so unwieldy - I wasn't wrong.
Two People in 1985 on @BBC6Music's Live Hour. Never heard of them sadly, but what great choons.
Oh dear, is the @BBC6MusicBot still alive? @maryannehobbs is on and I'm having to keep my finger constantly on the Shazam button...
Was a bit iffy at first about @BootstrapCook's Irish soda bread recipe as there was self-raising flour *and* bicarbonate of soda, but I shouldn't have doubted...turned out beautifully with an excellent crumb. Off to get my copy of A Girl Called Jack...
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Adding a @Portrait_Movie cinema seat to the mix of, er, memorabilia...this is in a pretty cool arthouse cinema in Singapore called @TheProjectorSG.
@Portrait_Nation
Seconded. If any bananas/jiak kentang were wondering, this doc will tell you all you need to know about the fate of the Chinese literati in Singapore.
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Most of the time, I prefer white meat.
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Not sure if the @Portrait_Nation has cottoned on to this so thought I'd share it....very rare to find interviews in English with Céline from the Water Lilies era.
youtube.com/watch?v=U9ruRIeS…