Don’t blame it on translations


It seems that it is not just students or fresh graduates who have poor command of English. Those tasked with the defence of our country are no better.

IT IS just a month after I wrote my article, “Solly, slip of my tang-gue” (25 Nov), about the idiosyncracies of languages and how people can get quite confused and baffled when it comes to translations.

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