Getai's not getai without dialect

• Clivebenss

  3 Aug 11, 10:45

  Aug 3, 2011 - ST Forum

  I DISAGREE with the reasoning for limiting the use of dialect in the getai performances in Orchard Road ("Getai goes glam in Orchard Road"; Sunday).

  Tourists delight in experiencing authenticity, which is totally undermined by this artificial language restriction.

  I have savoured songs such as madrigals sung in the vernacular tongue in similar traditional, open-air festivals in major cities around the world without being put off in the slightest by the language barrier.

  I ask the authorities to withdraw the current ruling which is killing the soul of the getai, rendering it as "just another Mandarin song concert".

  Chen Junyi

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  3 Aug 11, 10:47

  I agree... it shldn't be just without dialect... Singlish should be acceptable too...

   

  Singlish and dialect are all part of local flavours... And even our dialect is not 100% accurate anyway since we have already incorporate other dialect or language into them...

• FireIce

  3 Aug 11, 10:54

  好兄弟 might wanna hear kpop oso leh

  like hoot~

• Aneslayer

  3 Aug 11, 10:57

  It all depends on the target audience... Bad reviews on national image if foreigners jest our misuse of English... They won't get the humor even if someone explains it to them...

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  3 Aug 11, 11:14

  Getai is local flavours... besides, u explain liaox then not funny le... It has to come from the heartland and not wayang...

  Try taking a very tragic chinese piece of news and use yahoo translator into english... Often the meaning the gets very distorted...

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  3 Aug 11, 11:34

  Another example...

   

  Imagine Wang Sha & Ye Feng speaking in perfect english... U think u will luff at them???

• BanguIzai

  3 Aug 11, 12:09

  Why cannot dialect?

  What was the reason given?

• Aneslayer

  3 Aug 11, 12:28

  There's a reason why the related agency wanted to do it in central shopping district. It'd not be there and restricted if they want the locals to have a good laugh at themselves...

  Like I said, spore need as much positive reviews as possible. Local reviews does carry enough weight....

• Dalforce 25

  3 Aug 11, 12:30

  This is an insult to chinese Singapore dialect speakers. 

• Fjpt199100

  3 Aug 11, 15:28

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• viewquek

  3 Aug 11, 17:29

  Forget about Getai in Orchard Road.

  Those Getai at Geyland will be miles better.

   

  

• mancha

  4 Aug 11, 00:18

  The elites are embaressed.

• charleslee

  4 Aug 11, 00:43

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  好兄弟 might wanna hear kpop oso leh

  like hoot~

  lol...but 好兄弟 know kpop meh...btw, how come so random?