Re: Unknown natlang
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 0:03 |
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H.S.Teoh wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:14:09PM -0500, Karapcik, Mike wrote:
>> I plugged this into two language guessers. TextCat guessed
>> Indonesian, while XRCE guessed Turkish. I can see both areas having some
of
>> the anti-American sentiment the original author mentioned, so I really
can't
>> narrow it down, or even guarantee either guess is right. It's just
someplace
>> to start.
>
>One thing is for sure: it ain't Indonesian. If you want Indonesian, my
>current sig is Malay/Indonesian ;-)
Right; nor any other of the several hundred other Austronesian languages.
The language guesser probably picked up on "amoc" for amuk/amok, Engl.
(run)amuck. Not at all Turkish looking to me, either. Maybe one of the
Afghan languages?
>[offtopic] MAS is the name of Malaysia's airlines, "Malaysian Airline
>System". The sig is a humorous rendition of the acronym, literally meaning
>"where is there a system?", or, "what system?!"
>MAS = Mana Ada Sistem?
Chuckle. Reminds me of the post I forwarded a while back, that mentioned
how the Indonesian students, back in the days of political turmoil,
"acronymized" the names of politicians, e.g. Suharto : SUdah HARus TObat
'should have repented', and Pres. Abdurahim, known as Gus Dur : aGUStus
munDUR 'resigns in August'.