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August 25, 2015 edition

That's the sound guns make. Bangbang! Or boom! But not Indonesian guns. They go duar! Or dorr!
And so on for other sounds of punching, swishing, hitting, treading, thumping etc. In English, if you punch or hit someone or something, you go pow or kerpow! Or wham! Or whack! But if you're Indonesian, you go ciaaat! or gubrak!

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July 28, 2015 edition

Jennifer Lindsay*
The last couple of columns have been about pronouns in Indonesian; first 'you', and then 'me'. Before moving on, I want to talk about the third person plural pronoun.

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June 30, 2015 edition

Jennifer Lindsay
All through the day, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine', the Beatles' song goes. In English, we have four forms for the first person singular (add 'my' to the litany above) but they are all cases of the same word 'I'a ghost of Old English where all nouns, and not just pronouns, had cases. The choice of 'I' or 'me' is fairly straightforward ('I' for subject and after the verb 'to be'), although many English speakers nowadays muddle up 'I' and 'me' and one often hears things like, 'she asked my daughter and I to go', or 'between you and I', when it should be 'me'.

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