English - as broken as it gets..

Ni brief one je..

I attended a briefing this morning, and I couldn't get some of what the speaker said out of my head..

"Are you understand what I'm telling?"

"It depend on what they wants..."

"You needs to understand in order to..."

She definitely had me stifling my barks of laughter in that auditorium.

I'm not saying my English is perfect, but well... I don't think you'll hear me say "You likes this dress?"

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These "fine" English reminded me of the "Hello Kitty" ads plastered on several Putra LRT trains. Here's their tagline:
"Celebrating 30 years of cute"

What the...???
30 years of cute? Macam ayat tergantung je...

Imagine me telling you.. "Thank you for your kind"
(OMG, if someone tells that to me, I swear I'm gonna start wondering if I'm an alien or something...)

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In view of the above, I'm going to quote a certain songstress of Malaysia:
"Thanks you."


[p.s: I'm sure you've had your fair share of broken English ... ;-)) ]