Category Archives: Bahasa Indonesian

English Attacking Bahasa Indonesia in Indonesia

English is the global destroyer, taking out native languages here and there, right and left, over there and over here. I’ve never heard of it damaging actual national languages yet. Looks like it’s going to town on Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) … Continue reading

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More On The Hardest Languages To Learn – Non-Indo-European Languages

Note: Unbelievably, the PC nutjobs have accused this post, a Linguistics post of all things, of racism. See here for my position statement on racism. Caution: This post is very long. It runs to 75  pages on the Net. This … Continue reading

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