"Singlish" Asset or Liability?

Category: Societal issues
Article:"I'm a "Basket" Case"
From: "Today" 3 Feb 07
According to Neil Humphreys, Singlish vulgarities is a real asset (in an ironic form) in foreign land. The fact that he knows that he is protected because many foreign people do not know the language, so he gets the pleasure of ventng his anger and/or insulting someone and getting away with it. This tells me something dark and shadowy about being a human and our ways, using a language that someone does not understand on him for ignoble purposes. From my past experience from traveling so many times to Jakarta , because my father is a Singaporean PR(Permanent Resident), I realised that the worst insult i know that can really make somebody there really mad over ther is the word "Monyet" which means Monkey in English.
Most of the expletives in Singapore are in Hokkien which makes me wonder, are Hokkien people more vulgar than let's say compared to a Malays or Indians? I am not to sure about that but it seems most deemed decent terms are in Malay such as "longkang" which means drain; however i think if a surevey is carried out to Russians, Japanese.etc i am quite sure that most vulgarities would fall under a certain category for example wanton love making or an illegitimate child or perhaps male or female sex organs, most likely every known tongue has an equilivent word.
The Australian expatriate's point of view , I feel, is not attacking Singlish although he only remembers the ugly side of Singlish yet those expletives have sentimental values and it is the only way he can bring back memories of Singapore and it looks like he is very much gleeful that he can use them.
On a side note, the creators of "Phua Chu Kang"television sitcom is responding to the debate whether Singlish is good or bad and "Ang Moh" would not fully appreciate the beauty of Singlish uttered jokes.
Now, i will end off with a question for you to ponder over, if Singlish is bad, why did "Phua Chu Kang" television sitcom did not fail but became a national icon of endearment?
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