{"id":57883,"date":"2023-04-04T22:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=57883"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:03:31","slug":"commentary-what-was-it-about-tiktok-ceo-chew-shou-zis-speech-that-made-him-sound-un-singaporean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=57883","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: What was it about TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi\u2019s speech that made him sound un-Singaporean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi\u2019s use of American features in his speech at a hostile congressional hearing was not only polite, but also necessary, says linguistics expert Associate Professor Tan Ying Ying from NTU.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/tiktok-chew-shou-zi-singaporean-ceo-speech-accent-american-features-3395481\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi\u2019s use of American features in his speech at a hostile congressional hearing was not only polite, but also necessary, says linguistics expert Associate Professor Tan Ying Ying from NTU.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":57884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-57883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}