Dear all,

Yes, politeness is not too hard to find in a small island like S'pore. But I would like to throw another perspective. What if it's not politeness? Does telling you coughing like that in public makes me weird?

What would others in the train look at me after telling you? What if you feel like bashing me up as a result? Whatever it is, I hope more awareness is created to make our Singapore a safe, healthy and warm environment to embrace. Thank you

A****

We've established Hoey's theory that grammar is very much the result of collocations, and I guess this post supports his theory. Intuitively, many of the sentences above contain words which should not be put together in that particular order, or words which should not exactly be collocated together at all. So as a result of putting them together, these few sentences seem extremely ungrammatical. some of the words being put together when they shouldn't be, also display a breakdown in the lexical semantics of the author, making it acceptable to him to 'make singapore an environment to embrace'.