Indonesian Dictionary

Kamus besar bahasa Indonesia

Indonesian as a modern dialect of Malay has borrowed heavily from many languages, including: Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese and many other languages, including other Austronesian languages. It is estimated that there are some 750 Sanskrit loanwords in modern Indonesian, 1,000 Arabic loans, some of Persian and Hebrew origin, some 125 words of Portuguese (also Spanish and Italian) origin and a staggering number of some 10,000 loanwords from Dutch. The latter also comprises many words from other European languages, which came via Dutch, the so-called "International Vocabulary". The vast majority of Indonesian words, however, come from the root lexical stock of its Austronesian (incl. Old Malay) heritage.

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The Oita Text Forum

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Theme: Text, Function, and Context
Date: Sunday 5th December 2010
Venue: Compal Hall, Oita, Japan
Registration: Free
The Oita Text Forum (OTF) is pleased to invite you to participate in the OTF Workshop Round 2.
OTF Workshop Round 2 focuses on fundamental elements in understanding the relationship between text, context, beliefs (including ideology and semiotic or knowledge base), and material situational setting.
Specifically, we may explore questions such as:

What is the relation between text and the context of situation?

What can we say about (the context of) culture in relation to text generation? And how does the former affect the latter?

What is the relationship between the context of situation and material situational setting?

To what extent, if any, do extra-linguistic features play in formulating descriptions of texts?

Alice in Wonderland 2010

19 year old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the magical Wonderland from when she was young and meets some old friends, and learns of her destiny.. to overthrow the evil Red Queen, sister to the good White Queen (Anne Hathaway). 

Mia Wasikowska gave a good performance playing Alice as she was more independent and resourceful than I remember, surely ahead of her time! 


In order to bring peace to Wonderland, Alice must slay the monster known as the Jabberwocky (I don't remember this Harry Potter type battle from the novel), which seemed shoehorned in to give the film some more structure and narrative and give the older, supposedly more resourceful Alice a mission, which The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) helps her with. His performance is a strange one - wearing lots of make up and adopting an occasional Scottish accent, there may be some sadness as well as madness in his air because he and the other characters have been waiting up to 13 years for Alice to come back. 
However, in one scene the Hatter does a Michael Jackson inspired dance for no apparent reason, which I found cringeworthy. 
The suggestion through the film that Wonderland may actually be real (with Alice often questioning her surroundings) reminded me of themes explored in Pan's Labyrinth and The Chronicles of Narnia. In my opinion this gave the film a darker edge and made it more appealing to adults and older children.