1928 and then
Monday, January 22, 2018
I am constantly amazed at the speed of change in the Indonesian language today, particularly at the ‘deepening’ of the language in terms of register.
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I am constantly amazed at the speed of change in the Indonesian language today, particularly at the ‘deepening’ of the language in terms of register. As I have commented before (yes, I know I am a bit obsessed about this), the varieties of nation-wide spoken Indonesian are widening in terms of dialect, slang, intonation and colloquial language, while the domain of formal Indonesian is narrowing. Sometimes it seems to me that when I leave Indo
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