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Historical facts aside, the Singlish Affair is the brain-child of John DeFrancis ( The Chinese Language, Fact and Fantasy , Univ. of Hawaii, 1984), a parodying bulesque pointing up certain features of languages in general and of Chinese in particular.
For example, the Chinese word for Buddha is used as the first character for the English word Florida . Let me quote from Professor John DeFrancis's The Chinese Language Fact and Fantasy (p.