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Indonesian Vs Malay
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Medulin
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Message 9 of 10

09 August 2014 at 10:03pm | IP Logged

Fat-tony wrote:

Indonesian speakers will complain that reading Malay will give them a headache!

This is also common with other users of differently standardized languages:
1. Many people from Portugal complain when they to read a Brazilian translation of a foreign book,
and many do choose the (English/French/Spanish) original instead. Even books by Brazilian authors are translated in Portugal,
for example Paulo Coelho's, not only spelling is changed, but vocabulary and syntax too.
2. In Norway, many users of Dano-Norwegian (Riksmaal) and conservative Bokmaal complain when they have to read something
in a more folksy Bokmaal (called radical Bokmaal), or in Modern Norwegian (this is a linguistic name for Nynorsk)
3. Croatians will never read a book in Serbian because it gives us a headache, every other word is different, so reading is more like decrypting than pleasurable pastime

In pleasurable reading, the focus is on the content, and forms should be as neutral (closest to the reader) as possible,
since marked forms shift the focus from the content (the story) to the style / language / form.
Linguists and language-fans love form-focused reading, but the general public prefers content/story-focused reading.

In speech, these differences are not very prominent, Portuguese people like watching Brazilian soap operas,
Norwegians from the East and the North like listening to Nynorsk singers (like Herborg Kråkevik and Odd Nordstoga) and Serbian turbofolk songs are really popular in Croatian nightclubs.

Edited by Medulin on 09 August 2014 at 10:21pm
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Monox D. I-Fly
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Message 10 of 10

25 October 2014 at 6:00am | IP Logged

Luso wrote:

2. Off-topic:
I'm the leader of a team where we are interested in learning rare languages (rare in the forum, not necessarily in the world at large). We have in the team a couple of members learning Indonesian. If a native speaker would like to volunteer to help (we call them "godfathers" or "godmothers"), it would be appreciated (and it does not take much of your time).

If you have questions, you can PM me. Thanks in advance.

I would like to volunteer as an Indonesian native speaker. However my formal language isn't any good (not fit in standard procedure of writing). Is that okay with you?
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