Your English also temporary out of service lah!

The Speak Good English Campaign may be working. But the Write English Just As Good one hasn’t been launched yet, which explains this sign at Changi Airport Terminal One:

Your English also out of service

COMPUTER SYSTEM IS TEMPORARY OUT OF SERVICE. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCED CAUSED

I’m not even going to ask why there’s a semi-permanent placard that announces computer breakdowns.

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15 responses to “Your English also temporary out of service lah!”

  1. something, 90% of Singaporeans are bound to know..On his latest post, I’ll just say that I’m pretty glad I’m no longer related to that company, if not..so the “paiseh”…Advice to those in the airline industry: better go check your placards. Click *here* and you’ll know what I mean.

  2. black_tractor Avatar
    black_tractor

    Den how to write the correct one??

  3. black_tractor Avatar
    black_tractor

    Den how to write the correct one??

  4. mystery Avatar
    mystery

    it should be:
    Computer System Temporarily Out Of Service. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

    (Temporary and Inconvenienced are wrongly used in the original lah).

  5. mystery Avatar
    mystery

    it should be:
    Computer System Temporarily Out Of Service. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

    (Temporary and Inconvenienced are wrongly used in the original lah).

  6. nAL Avatar

    Has anyone seen the one at Woodlands Checkpoint that encourages you to “Please Queue Up Orderly”?

    I would have taken a picture, except for the guy with the gun standing next to it.

  7. nAL Avatar

    Has anyone seen the one at Woodlands Checkpoint that encourages you to “Please Queue Up Orderly”?

    I would have taken a picture, except for the guy with the gun standing next to it.

  8. andrea Avatar

    Oh. My. God. It’s just getting worse, isn’t it? I certainly don’t remember signage being this embarrassingly bad when I was younger.

  9. andrea Avatar

    Oh. My. God. It’s just getting worse, isn’t it? I certainly don’t remember signage being this embarrassingly bad when I was younger.

  10. inside food Avatar
    inside food

    And what about “no outside food” and its many variations that still essentially revolve around the same words?

    Even hotels are adopting this sign =_=

    Its a classic case of follow the leader..

  11. inside food Avatar
    inside food

    And what about “no outside food” and its many variations that still essentially revolve around the same words?

    Even hotels are adopting this sign =_=

    Its a classic case of follow the leader..

  12. andrea Avatar

    Yeah, the no outside food gets to me too. I have read signs using proper English, telling people that food purchased outside their premises are not to be consumed there (or something like that), but I guess ‘No outside food’ is shorter. Singlish is all about abbreviation, isn’t it?

  13. andrea Avatar

    Yeah, the no outside food gets to me too. I have read signs using proper English, telling people that food purchased outside their premises are not to be consumed there (or something like that), but I guess ‘No outside food’ is shorter. Singlish is all about abbreviation, isn’t it?

  14. nAL Avatar

    Abbreviate, go all the way lor.

    NOF! NOF! NOF!

  15. nAL Avatar

    Abbreviate, go all the way lor.

    NOF! NOF! NOF!

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