The Singaporeans have their own way of speaking English. It's kind of cute but totally nakakaloka! To answer a can/cannot question, they simply say "CAN!" if it's possible and "CANNOT" if it's not. I miss that! For example, you ask, "Can I pay w/ my card?" In response, they'd say "Can" or "Cannot" :-)
They also tend to add le (pronounced lah or le from the Mandarin character w/c means alrdy, as in Wo yau zou le) at the end of their English sentences. Like they say, "I don't like it lah" etc. They also follow the Chinese (Mandarin) way of sentence construction, like they say: Can, cannot bottle can? As in Mandarin ke yi, bu ke yi... or yau, bu yau... And best of all, can also can, cannot also can. Haha, what do those things mean?
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