Terms of Address
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Jennifer Lindsay*
Personal names, like pronouns, are a minefield of sensitivity in written and spoken Indonesian. People usually put some kind of kinship term before a name, or use these terms instead of names. This poses quite a challenge when translating into English, as in a collection of stories by Leila Chudori that I have been translating and which makes extensive use of appellations.
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Jennifer Lindsay*
Personal names, like pronouns, are a minefield of sensitivity in written and spoken Indonesian. People usually put some kind of kinship term before a name, or use these terms instead of names. This poses quite a challenge when translating into English, as in a collection of stories by Leila Chudori that I have been translating and which makes extensive use of appellations.
We are somewhat familiar with this in English, especially
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