Kifli's going to think it's hilarious when he real...- August 20, 2007 Kifli's going to think it's hilarious when he realizes there's an online encyclopedia inspired by one of his diary entries.http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... I don't actually know any Malay, I know some Indon...- August 20, 2007 I don't actually know any Malay, I know some Indonesian.Learnt it at school...I should still have some text-books laying about somewhere.http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... Kraant: The Internet is a great tool for putting ...- August 20, 2007 Kraant: The Internet is a great tool for putting heads together and focusing on a question! I had noticed the word "orang" and noticed the similarity to the word "orangutan."Thanks for the Malay lesson. How did you learn some Malayhttp://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... Zimbel: Now I have a much better idea! At the "E...- August 20, 2007 Zimbel: Now I have a much better idea! At the "Encyclopedia of the Kifli Language," each word and phrase will have its own diary entry, so that words can be searched simply by typing them into the search box at the top of the Blogger screen, and all entries including that word will appear in the search results, including the primary entry.I'm thinking there must be a way, a system, to archive the words so that the primary entry will come up first in the search results.http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... That's a mighty limited dictionary you've got ther...- August 20, 2007 That's a mighty limited dictionary you've got there, it's about the same size as my vocabulary.Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) and Malay (Bahasa Melayu) are largely mutually intelligible, and use the same spellings. That should double the resources available to you."Nama saya Daniel."Would mean IIRC from my very rusty memory mean:"My name is Daniel.""Nama kamu Francis."Would mean:"Your name is Francis."Orang is person.Hutan is forest.So what's an OrangutanIf things seem too simple and it feels...http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... Zimbel and Kraant: I've started a new blog to stu...- August 20, 2007 Zimbel and Kraant: I've started a new blog to study this essay. The blog is called "The Encyclopedia of the Kifli Language." :)http:kifli-langauge.blogspot.comWhatever we discover about the "Kifli Essay" can be posted at this blog, and as we discover what these words mean we can post the definitions and background information on each word there in individual entries, in alphabetical order, by word.I think this university in Malaysia might be a good source of information for us, because I've..http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... That's a great syntactic analysis of this linguist...- August 20, 2007 That's a great syntactic analysis of this linguistic text Zimbel, applied to individual words!http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... Zimbel: These are great clues you've given us, pa...- August 20, 2007 Zimbel: These are great clues you've given us, particularly the warning to look out for words that are repeated and to focus on prefixes and suffixes. These seem to me to be rules that (a) rules I can easily remember and (b) rules that are of general application and therefore very useful in decodifying this entire text. And you've identified nine prefixes and suffixes and given us some hypothesis as to their function in this language!I imagine that someone who speaks this language (whatever..http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... "Di sini, perkara sama juga saya lihat. Di Muzium ...- August 20, 2007 "Di sini, perkara sama juga saya lihat. Di Muzium Kucing misalnya, walaupun ia hanya melibatkan kerja-kerja pembaikan kecil, namun ia masih mengganggu urusan pelancong yang keluar masuk ke muzium itu."At here, matter same too me to look at. At Muzium Cat misalnya, although it only melibatkan work-work improvement small, yet it still to bother manage pelancong who exit to enter ke muzium that."Menyentuh mengenai urusan pelancong, perkara ini amat perlu saya kemukakan, soal tanda jalan atau...http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... Looks like I was wrong. This is either a different...- August 20, 2007 Looks like I was wrong. This is either a different dialect than the dictionary, or it's a dictionary with relatively few words. I'm guessing the latter.Sample attempted translation (warning! I made choices in this simple substitution which may be wrong. I am not familiar with any language in the Malay Family, so incorrect choices are likely)."Suasana kerja-kerja menaiktaraf tempat-tempat awam ketika negara sedang menyambut Tahun Melawat Malasyia 2007, bukan lagi asing, ia sering diperkata di...http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-zulkifly-bujang-news-reporter-in.html?sho... |