Re: TECH: Official languages of the list

Carsten Becker mawuri:

>
> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 17:51, Roger Mills wrote:
>
>  > "Benang" ini sdh terlalu panjang. Menurut pendapat saya,
>  > lebih baik saja kalau ber-cakap2 tentang hal2 mengenai
>  > bahasa2 buatan kita.
>
> Cool, looks like Indonesian. What does that mean?
Right you are.  Good Heavens, must we now give interlinears with our
emails??? :-))
>
"Benang" ini sdh terlalu panjang.
 thread  this already too.much long

Menurut pendapat saya,
ACT-follow opinion I=my

lebih baik saja kalau ber-cakap2 tentang hal2 mengenai
more  good just  if   VB-discuss  about  matter-pl concerning

bahasa2 buatan kita.
language-pl make-NOML we(incl)=our

Don't ask me how one derives "opinion" from the agent form of dapat, which
means 'can, able; get, obtain'.

Or "concerning" from a verb _kena [k@'na]_ whose basic meaning is 'hit,
struck by, affected by'. Coincidentally, Kash _kena ['kena]_ means the same,
but I don't use it as much as BI uses their kena.

Yet another Indonesian oddity, later on in the post:  diputuskan '(it) was
decided'-- di- passive; putus 'cut off' -kan object focus, sort-of. Perhaps
a loan-translation of "decide" which also seems to contain a root -cide
meaning 'cut'

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