Bahasa Melayu was in the same place as it was 30 years, or even 50 years ago. Bahasa Indonesia has progressed so much more since then. It is far more versatile, modern, and fluid. It very much deserve to claim the mantle of Bahasa, The Language™
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A literal reading of "oh don't say Bahasa, it's just mean language!!!" ignores the complex history and the muddled politics surrounding the modern development of the Malay world. It is bad, lazy, and ignorant.
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And yes, the irony of these tweets being written in English, the language of colonizers and colonized minds...
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"Bahasa" adalah branding ya ringkas, mudah diingat dan enak didengar.
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Why not. I believe the Javanese do the same by calling the Krama variant as "boso".. Leres nopo mboten Mas?
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Yeah, the descriptivist in me would say that "Bahasa" in a colloquial English context *does* refer to "Indonesian". It's just that sometimes people use it not out of convenience, but out of ignorance, i.e. those who confuse "Bahasa" for an umbrella term for Malay varieties.
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Yes, sometimes it functions linguistically but why not just say "Indonesian" ? It is elegant and correct and it recognizes everything that
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Reminder: I'm directing my comments at people speaking English. If we're talking about two British people speaking in London, Bahasa Indonesia is surely not THE language. "Bahasa" could be Indonesian or Malaysian. Saying "Indonesian" recognizes exactly what you want to recognize
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someone been learnt five woke buzzwords, and run with them
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I mean we all speak bahasa, but which bahasa though? Bahasa originated from sanskrit and means language in so many other bahasas
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