Ada sebuah acara yang cukup menyegarkan FreSh “Istilah Indonesia di Internet, Mencari Padanan Setengah Mati”
Tema yang diangkat seputar penggunaan bahasa Indonesia di internet yang umumnya terdengar aneh.
Sekilas pancingan undangan di bawah ini yang ada di Facebook:
Coba kita test dengan dialog ini:
X : Hi, loe lagi daringan nggak? poselku pasti blom dibaca deh…
Y : Sori broer, [...]

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‘Coblos’ means to perforate.
In Indonesia during the New Order regime, ‘coblos’ relates to voting for someone by perforating an election symbol. Back then, the symbols were three. Not that many.
Now, the symbols, in the democratic era in Indonesia, I can’t seems to recall the number, amounts to a lot of symbols.
One other thing that one [...]

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Being a translator in the language pair of English Indonesian, a reference to the source language is sometimes a must. In this day and age the help of cable TV do play a significant part in our work.
News channel on cable such as BBC World News, Al Jazeera (English), CNN and others have help my [...]

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