From: ges@boris.net.com (G.E. Song)
Subject: Re: Was [China/Chua, An open letter] Now:- COVERT ETHNIC CLEANSING
Organization: THE WORLD
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:45:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.124114.5169@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au> eln314m@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (Ms ML Hong) writes:
>From: eln314m@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (Ms ML Hong)
>Subject: Re: Was [China/Chua, An open letter] Now:- COVERT ETHNIC CLEANSING
>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:41:14 GMT

>In article <1992Aug26.081637.1280@newsroom.utas.edu.au>, u907736@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Edmund Chia) writes:
>> In article <ges.27.0@boris.net.com>, ges@boris.net.com (G.E. Song) writes:
>> > 
>> > In article <1992Aug25.043905.26232@newsroom.utas.edu.au> u907736@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Edmund Chia) writes:
>> > >From: u907736@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Edmund Chia)
>> > >Subject: Re: China/Chua, KhengHwa/Re: An open letter to Emperor Akihito of Japan
>> > >Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 04:39:05 GMT
>> > 
>> > >In article <1992Aug21.204232.14121@leland.Stanford.EDU>, underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>> > >> 
>> > >> In article <1992Aug21.100302.3508@idacom.hp.com> russil@idacom.hp.com
>> > >> (Russil Wvong) writes:
>> > >> >underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>> > 
>> > (stuff deleted)
>> > 
>> 
>> >From the above, it appears that Mr/Miss(?) Hong has a limited knowledge
>                                              ^^^^
>   Just to set the record straight, especially when I am the only Hong active
>on the net at the moment, I did not write the post that has been attributed to
>me. Don't worry, Edmund. I understand it must be a slip of the finger (although
>S and H are quite a distance away) :-).

>> [stuff deleted]
>> 
>> > Edmund, dear boy, when was the last
>> > time you were in singapore? Did you ever watch programmes on the govt's
>> > tv station? If you have been in singapore and watched the programmes
>> > you would have noticed that english programmes are usually sub-titled.
>> > Entertainment programmes get subtitled in any one of the non-english 
>> > official languages. A movie may be sub-titled in chinese and the next movie
>> > may sub-titled in some other language. I did not notice any one language
>> > predominating over any other language. English documentaries are always
>> >                                                                  ^^^^^^
>> > sub-titled in chinese. The chinese characters are so big that they obstruct
>> > a large portion of the bottom of the screen. I have found this to be most
>> > infuriating.
>> 
>> I can't be too sure about the sub-titles because when I watch English
>> programmes, I do not read the sub-titles, nor do I know why the Chinese
>> characters are so big. If I was to hazard a guess, I would say that was
>> because a lot of Singaporeans are short-sighted - That helps because I
>> DO read subtitles when I watch Chinese or Malay or Indian movies.
>> 
>>  
>> > I have never seen a documentary sub-titled in other ethnic language.
>> > Is this because the other ethnic groups are not interested
>> > in documentaries or is it because the govt. believes that the other
>> > ethnic groups need not be educated to the same extent as the chinese?
>> 

>  I remember watching documentaries in Malay and Tamil with English subtitles.
>I particularly watched out for these ones because I could learn the spelling
>and names of the animals/technologies/countries/etc the documentaries were
>about. Most of the verbal English commentaries were too fast for me, and I 
>could read the summarised English subtitles at ease.
>  On the other hand, I have also seen documentaries subtitled in Malay.
>Subtitling in Tamil might be a problem due to the shape of the language, I
>think. No offence intended. Has anyone seen subtitling in Tamil on the TV
>screen in other countries? If it is feasible, we should urge the SBC to do
>so.
>  

I was refering to documentaries in ENGLISH with subtitles in an ethnic
language.

I don't know if you noticed, but have you ever seen jobs advertised
by the SBC where there wasn't a requirement to speak mandarin. I
don't think tamils speak mandarin (usually)

>> [more deletion] 
>> 
>> Edmund

>Mun Li
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