Post by CNA

Even before Teochew film Dear You, films using Chinese “dialect” have created disproportionate buzz. It is one of the great ironies of Singapore's language policies, says NTU linguistics professor Tan Ying Ying. The hunger people feel when they hear "dialect" in a cinema is partly the hunger of the prohibited. Read her full commentary: https://cna.asia/43QkXUB #cnacommentary