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This is a Fanclub and as such a place for fans to discuss the person in question for which the topic was created. Coming into this topic without having participated in it to criticise her or with the comment that this topic doesn't deserve to be here is unacceptable. So play nice in here and keep the debates and hate outside please. | ||
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TheDougler
Canada8306 Posts
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chickensmasher
Canada57 Posts
well that movie was a big f-ing waste of time -o-" 25th hour. That's the only bad Edward Norton movie that was ever made. I would like to be removed from the fanclub. | ||
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Freebirdo7
United States163 Posts
I feel like this community is so tight and close, that they end up close minded sometimes. Dont let them get you down Kelly! | ||
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kellymilkies
Singapore1393 Posts
On March 07 2011 02:55 chickensmasher wrote: Kelly on twitter: I would like to be removed from the fanclub. Oh come on. I love Edward norton but that show was bad . Anyway regarding the article thats fine. Its just that may be the reporter could have chose better comments. He chose the worst TL flames so obviously it might look bad. But the article itself is good ^-^V Gogo | ||
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gonebefore
United States5 Posts
Huk is trying to teach her how to 4 gate as protoss. <3 | ||
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ReaperX
Hong Kong1758 Posts
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Hellie
Sweden94 Posts
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
A Singaporean commentating in one of the world's biggest computer gaming leagues is getting flak for her supposedly incomprehensible pronunciation. Ms. Kelly Ong, 21, is the only Singaporean working in the GOMTV Global StarCraft II League (GSL), a large tournament-based league held on location in Seoul, SouthKorea. With 64 international gamers and $$158,000 in prize money for every tournament, it is broadcast on GOMtv.net six nights a week. It is now in its 6th season and the International GSL website draws 100,000 viewers daily. The GSL claims to be the highest paying tournament in e-sports. Its commentators are a mix of nationalities, from Korean to American to Singaporean Ms Ong, who is better known by her handle kellyMILKIES. Her appointment had itself generated controversey, with numerous gamers protesting over her "thick accent" and saying in various forums that she is "difficult to understand". She has been on the job for more than a week and the criticism, mainly from Western gamers, has continued to pour in. One Singaporean poster even accused her of having a fake Australian accent. However, other gamers have defended her commentating style. In an email interview with LifeStyle, Ms Ong said that she received many "horrible, horrible emails" even before her first broadcast. But she is unfazed by the more extreme comments, "It's just the Internet talking." "I think the spotlight is on me because I have an Asian accent and I am female. That makes me an auto-target in a male-dominated environment." She points out that she has previously worked with British bosses "who did not have a problem understanding me from day one". Ms Ong, who was handpicked from hundreds of other commentators, or casters as they are called, is relishing the opportunity to work with the big boys. Signed up for this season, she is currently casting three games a week with a co-commentator. She does not want to disclose her salary. "GSL is the pinnacle of professional gaming, so to be able to be a commentator here has been phenomenal," she says. She started gaming competitively in 2005 through the ubiquitous Counter-Strike before moving on to casting. She has also competed in and casted regional tournaments, such as the Colosseum Singapore SC2 LAN. She completed her secondary school education before dropping out of a private diploma course to work. Local gamers told LifeStyle that they could not understand the furore over Ms Ong's accent. Game developer Joanna Lee, 31, gave her a seven out of 10. She says: "Kelly's pretty all right, except for her pronunciation, but I have seen worse. Maybe they are just not used to the Singaporean accent and are being a bit too critical. "Female gamers tend to attract more attention because the arena is male-dominated." | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
Mog[skynet] from Arizona: I watched that whole replay and I think my ears are bleeding. There are parts where she's not bad, but when she starts trying to explain strategy and/or tlaks fast, I can't really understand her. zedman1991 from Seattle: I didn't htink it was TOO horrible, but she definitely needs to learn a bit more about the game. Some of it was unintelligible, and some of it wasn't really correct or was missing some important points. BryanTan123 from Singapore: I have no respect for u Kelly Ong. Your faux Australian accent is fucking irritating. U haf no right commentating in Code A. An1Ma from the Netherlands: Though she is not speaking English fluently, it is good enough for me and her looks are great as well. Thowky in Britain: She's not the best caster in the world but she's decent enough and her accent really isn't as strong as people make it out to be, certianly not as strong as a lot of UK and other accents I hear on a daily basis. | ||
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TrainFX
United States469 Posts
I seem to be lost. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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Zeroes
United States1102 Posts
I am glad this thread exist and mods ban the haters. I feel that TL mods have matured over the last few years kudos to them! | ||
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Maginor
Norway505 Posts
On March 06 2011 03:12 Tabula`Rasa wrote: First of all, I know I'm probably going to take a ban for this, but that's fine. Because I believe everybody has a right to speak their mind. I feel a need, as a Singaporean myself, to address a number of very severe misconceptions about Singapore and Singaporeans in general. But before I do so, I would like to state, unequivocally, that I, in my heart of hearts, feel that Kelly is an embarrassment to Singapore and Singaporeans in general. First of all, it is certainly untrue that most Singaporeans speak with that accent, or that it is difficult for Singaporeans in general to learn the language and be proficient at it. It may be true for Kelly, but that is only likely to be because she is not very intelligent, and not of a very high level of education. Singaporeans begin to learn english from a very, very young age. This starts at 6, from kindergarten, and ends, at the earliest, at 16. That is a good, solid 10 years of education. I personally assure any of you Europeans and Americans reading this post that Kelly's level of english is not indicative of the general standard displayed by Singaporeans possessed of better social standing and/or education. In fact, it would, in my opinion, be fairly difficult for anyone, after 10 years of formal education in a language, to speak it at that level. An American person, if forced for 10 years to learn mandarin on a daily basis would surely be able to speak it at a higher level than Kelly speaks english. Further to this, all classes in almost all schools in Singapore are conducted in english, as are trials in court, debates in parliament, and generally anything of importance in our country. There is simply no excuse for someone to be as poor as Kelly is at the english language. Secondly, and this is not a personal attack on Kelly - I have absolutely nothing against ugly people - but I would like to state that I don't know what the hell kind of Asian girls you Europeans and Americans have been looking at so as to induce you to form in your heads the idea that Kelly is aesthetically pleasing. If any of you ever stop by Singapore, I am willing to wager a dozen drinks of your choosing, at any club or establishment of your choosing, that on any given night in any given club in our fair country, Kelly would not get any attention, male, female or otherwise, whatsoever. Now I am bound to get a large number of negative responses to my post, but I felt a need to defend foreign perceptions of my people and my country. Kelly is a poor example and a terrible representative of Singapore and Singaporeans. I hope that those of you on this forum who come from other parts of the world are at least somewhat enlightened by this brief post. We do not all speak terrible, FOB english. Most of us are highly proficient at it. We are also not country bumpkins. Our women are also not all ugly. Kelly is quite simply anomolous. *snip* I would like to say, that if most Singaporeans express themselves like you, that is not a place I would like to visit. Kelly is a nice person, whereas you sound like an elitist upperclass idiot. And I don't care if you have an accent that signifies that or not. The only reason you say you are embarrassed about her as an representative of your country is all the flak she recieves. You don't dislike (who you class as) ugly people, but still you don't want people to think that girls in your country are like Kelly because you personally think she is ugly. That shows a great deal of lack of character from you. I can understand the urge to express that most Singaporeans speak better than her (although I understand her perfectly without any more of my brain processing power having to be allocated to it, and my first language is not English either), but all your other statements, including saying that she is an ugly, unintelligent "country bumpkin" is completely over the top, and very unnecessary. Most people would not have that impression of her at all. Edit: To rephrase this, what your post comes across as is "only beautiful and perfect-speaking people should show themselves publicly, because otherwise people may think we are a country of stupid ugly people, and that would be a catastrophe, because then we have absolutely no other national values or accomplishments to show them that we deserve respect". I don't think that is the case though. | ||
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WIldrover
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Pansa01
United States26 Posts
I really dont see why poeple are making such a big deal over her. I think Kelly casts just fine... sign me up, Im a fan | ||
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dANiELcanuck
Canada217 Posts
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Klaent
Sweden374 Posts
That high five was awesome. And the flirting with Artosis during casting is pretty funny aswell ^^ | ||
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ke_ivan
Singapore374 Posts
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everyone
United States91 Posts
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Indrium
United States2236 Posts
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ke_ivan
Singapore374 Posts
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