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In the few commits from Jia Tan that I've seen, the English parses (to me at least) idiomatically as a native speaker from either the US or UK, and I did not encounter any signs of Singaporean English. Obviously, this is a very small sample so one cannot read too much into it.

Almost 10% of Singaporeans share the family name Tan. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Singaporean_surnames_by_f...

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> the English parses (to me at least) idiomatically as a native speaker from either the US or UK, and I did not encounter any signs of Singaporean English

Singapore is an Anglophone country. Many Singaporeans are perfectly capable of writing (idiomatic) BrE or NAmE, given the medium of instruction in Singaporean education from kindergarten to university is English. Example: me.

That is certainly true, I did not mean to imply this is not the case. I have noticed however that in the Singaporean English acrolect certain words and phrases are used differently than they would be in BrE or NAmE ("I'll send him to the airport.") In less formal registers the differences become larger, which is what I was looking for.

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