ObNatlang: Which is easier to learn, Tok Pisin or Bahasa Indonesia? Re: New to the list

In a message dated 2000/06/15 04:49:39 PM, Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS
Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked) wrote:

>ObNatlang: Which is easier to learn, Tok Pisin or Bahasa Indonesia?
    That is entirely subjective. For an English-speaker, Tok Pisin may have a
slight advantage over Bahasa Indonesia (but then Tok Pisin is so mutant an
English that it is - for all intents & purposes - a "foreign language")

    Both Tok Pisin & Bahasa Indonesia are tops on my Fluency Wish List (not
just for linguistics purposes/aims either... I like that part of the world &
its musics
    [in fact, I am tryin' to track down CDs of music from both Borneo and
Papua New Guinea.
    Of recent interest on the Conlang List has been the Tok Pisin word
_stringben_:
a lotta Papua NiuGini music is _stringben_ music - music created on
idiochordophones, "string" instruments made from bamboo or sago in which the
"string(s)" are simply strips split from the tube-body of the resonant body.]

    zHANg