See lor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Next time lor. ― Leave it for next time.",
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"text": "OK lor, go ahead. ― Fine, go ahead.",
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"text": "Bo pian lor. ― We don’t have a choice.",
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"ref": "2003 November 16, Suzanne Sng, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 16:",
"text": "[B]y then, it was too late, and I just told myself, ‘Ya lor. He’s right.’",
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"ref": "2020 December 1, Eve Lock, quoting Marcus, “Many Of Us Will Save For A Wedding, But Not Retirement”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 2024-08-08:",
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"ref": "2023 January 3, Hykel Quek, quoting Marcus, “3 Ways To Respond to Authority, According to a Fierce (but Resigned) Hougang Uncle”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 2024-05-25:",
"text": "Within a minute, Hougang uncle moves from denial, anger, and bargaining to “ok lor I’ll just remove them”—a quintessential Singaporean pattern of resignation.",
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"text": "You lor, or else still got who? ― It’s obviously you then.",
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"text": "Then tell him lor. ― You go and tell him then.",
"type": "example"
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"text": "Take a cab lor, easier this way. ― Just take a cab, it’s easier this way.",
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"text": "young mother: You never told me you had so much money... You sure you can afford this?\nyoung father: No need to worry about that. Not enough then borrow lor.",
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"ref": "2022 July 21, Sophie Chew, quoting Visakan Veerasamy, “Afraid of ‘Saying the Wrong Thing’ About Racism? Speak Up Anyway.”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 2024-07-19:",
"text": "I didn’t go to uni, just picked up the language organically from conversations around me. Twitter/Facebook, friends, news, etc … Anything I wasn’t sure of, just Google lor.",
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"text": "At my house lor. ― At my house, where else?",
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"text": "Sorry lor. ― (sarcastic) Oh I’m so sorry! (begrudgingly) OK! I'm sorry!",
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"ref": "2017 November 10, “‘Sorry ... what do you expect?’ says former top policeman on trial for Occupy assault”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-27:",
"text": "A retired senior police officer in Hong Kong on trial over the assault of a bystander during the 2014 Occupy protests said “sorry lor” for his actions in court on Friday, admitting that he hit his accuser with a baton on instinct.",
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"ref": "2020 December 1, Eve Lock, quoting Marcus, “Many Of Us Will Save For A Wedding, But Not Retirement”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 2024-08-08:",
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"text": "Then tell him lor. ― You go and tell him then.",
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"text": "Take a cab lor, easier this way. ― Just take a cab, it’s easier this way.",
"type": "example"
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"text": "young mother: You never told me you had so much money... You sure you can afford this?\nyoung father: No need to worry about that. Not enough then borrow lor.",
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"text": "I didn’t go to uni, just picked up the language organically from conversations around me. Twitter/Facebook, friends, news, etc … Anything I wasn’t sure of, just Google lor.",
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"text": "It’s true for me, at least. Friends under interrogation insist that ‘Have You Eaten?’ is very much alive, but when asked to recall their last encounter, answers invariably skew towards inter-generational anecdotes. “Relatives lor” is the top reply, and “Small-talk with taxi drivers” emerged as a runner-up because many feel compelled to make conversation after the initial “PIE or CTE?” decision.",
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