In a globalised economy where a computer is all that is needed to access information all over the world, it is inevitable that weaker languages are replaced by the more dominant ones.

• 在新加坡,同华语和英语相比,方言是一种弱势语言。在经济一体化,一台电脑容得下整个地球的今天,弱势语言为强势语言所取代是必然的趋势。