Singlish

Overview

Singlish is English in its most compact, efficient form. A fluent Singlish speaker can communicate to others in one tenth the number of characters compared to traditional English. Singlish words are made up of 1 to 3 characters, and no spaces or punctuation. Capital letters are only used on 3 letter words, in which case the middle letter is capitalized.

Glossary

Single character Singlish words are common, but when paired together, they form new words.

• 1: one, what, want, won
• 2: to, two, too
• 3: tree, three
• 4: for, four, fore
  • 4m: forum, for them
• 8: eight, ate
• b: be, bee
• c: see, sea
• i: I, eye, aye
• n: in
  • nSd: inside
  • nE1: anyone
  • ne: any
  • nv: envy
• o: oh
• p: pee, pea
• r: are, air
• s: is, yes
• t: tee, tea
• u: you
• y: why, "ty" suffix (8y = eighty)
• z: "sy" suffix (bz = busy)
• &: and, suffix (h& = hand)

Example Phrases

"2u12babzbw/me"' = do you want to be a busy bee with me?
"i12babzb" = I want to be a busy bee.
"nech&pznr" = Any sea hand pees in air
"i12tzu4urpt" = I want to tease you for you are pretty