Re: yl112's Meep, LOL...

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:48:05PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
[snip]
> Every now and again, Cybalist (a yahoo!group) receives a lengthy, lengthy
> spam post in Indonesian, usually headed something like "Apa anda mau
> meng-upgrade koneksi Internet anda?"   Makes one embarassed for the
> Indonesian language.
> Roger
[snip]

That's not at all new... Bahasa Malaysia has officially adopted the method
of "enriching" their vocabulary by basically transliterating English words
(rather than extending the meaning of existing words, such as e.g.
Mandarin Chinese has done, or coining new Malay-sounding words). You get
words like "sistem", "ekonomi" (though that is from Greek), "universiti",
"fizik" (physics), "konstruksi" (construction), "radikal" (radical), etc.

Not that it's a bad thing per se, but it does make the language lose some
of its unique flavor and sound a little too Indo-European :-P


T

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