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I've never been to Singapore, but I think vending machines should be common enough there that they wouldn't mistranslate it as ATM.
Americans when other dialects of English are allowed to do their own thing
Automated teller machine. How exactly does that translate to vending machine?
literally means figuratively, thing means object and not parliament, SMS means short message and not short message system, USAmericans say pants to trousers and underpants to pants, beamer for BMW, merc for Mercedes. Those are just different uses of words in different types of English.
Thing and ðing are different. SMS means short message service. BMer is pretty self explanatory. Merc is from the English who stole it from German parlance. And you just really are bitter aren’t you?
Not even 乁[ ◕ ᴥ ◕ ]ㄏ
I'm fine with all of these and I think it's also ok to let Singaporean English develop in its own direction.