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September 29, 2015 edition

Jennifer Lindsay*
One is one and all alone and ever more shall be so'. So went the line in the number song Green Grow the Rushes O that I learned at primary school. Indeed, in English the singular is clearly marked off from the plural. There is one, and then there are many.

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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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