LANGUAGE's DIFFERENCES * Singapore - English-speaking bus drivers, please
The reason: Neither driver spoke English
Singapore -Asia One Motoring -29 Jan 2009: -- He can see only vague outlines. When he travels on buses, he needs bus drivers to alert him when his stop approaches... But Mr K. Saseedaran Nair, 45, a form1er mini-mart owner, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease known as Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy syndrome less than a year ago... He felt helpless when he realised that the driver of the bus he was taking, SMRT Service No 187, did not understand a word he was saying... But the bus driver, a Chinese national, replied in Chinese... 'I was taken aback that he did not understand even simple, basic English,' said Mr Nair... After about three minutes, a passenger came forward to help, but the driver could not understand the other passenger either...Labels: drivers' languages
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