Threelogy Lah by Casey Chen
These books use and teach Singlish dialect and slang expressions. The target audience includes both those who want to see their own dialect used for humorous effect and those who are unfamiliar with Singlish.
Language and Culture
Does your language control you? Further reading and viewing!
Book: Through the Language Glass · Website: Language Weirdness Index · Movie: Arrival · TED Talk: Lera Boroditsky on Linguistic Relativity · Video: Color Naming Patterns
Review of 1984 by George Orwell
Orwell had it wrong. You don’t have to change or destroy existing records to change the truth. You just have to bury them under a slew of new ones.
Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames
This book is mind-blowing! My French teacher had it when I was in high school… 20 years later I was thrilled when I found a copy of my own.
Review and Summary of Arrival (2016 movie)
Quibble how you will about inaccuracies in the depiction of linguistics, the fact that Hollywood deigns to depict a linguist at all is nice.