Re: Indo. tidak/bukan (was: A question and introduction)

On 06/17 09:49  H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> Hmm. That could be a Malay colloquialism then. Nevertheless, I've always
> thought of _bukan_ as "not so" and _tidak_ as "did not". The above example
> I gave actually more likely implies "I wasn't looking at her, I was doing
> something else"; whereas _tidak_ would mean, "I was looking, but didn't
> see her".
>
You have just reminded me of a billboard I walk past that advertises a
beer brand.  It uses the catch phrase "yeah, right" as its slogan.  The
most recent one reads:  "I was reading her t-shirt -- yeah, right".
Dunedin being a university town at the start of the year they had up
"This year I'm going to study real hard -- yeah, right".  Since then
they also put up "Quiet student seeks room -- yeah, right".

Three sentences so far.  Anyone wish to attempt translations?

- andrew.
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