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Because I use a lot of Indo on this mostly English site, here's some lingo for the uninitiated:abang=big brother
ade/adek=younger sibling (gender neutral)
bete/bt=a negative emotion, usually irritation or a bad mood
cewe/ce=slang for girls
cowo/co=slang for boys
ja'im (jaga imej/image)=guarding your social image
kakak (pronounced kaka')=older sibling (gender neutral, or female, depending)
--kak (ka')=honorific for older siblings or 'sempai'
kuliah/kul=college
gwe (sometimes gw, gue)=slang for I or me
SD=elementary school
SK (sometimes es-ka; setia kawan): solidarity, loyalty (among friends) skul=school
SMA=high school
SMP=middle school
TK=kindergarten
wa=slang for I, me (same as 'gwe')
what are all those 2s? this is shorthand for a 'kata ulang' or repeated word. ngakak2 is read ngakak-ngakak= laughing very hard
any words that need to be added?
April 16th, 2007
your 'punk' is our dusty, dated tradition
I've been trying to find a picture of a batak woman wearing those big, traditional brass or silver earrings, her ears all streached out from the weight of the metal and dressed in kain and ulos.
Of course, now that I'm looking for it, I can't find it. (so here instead is a si gale-gale head wearing a duri-duri earring)
I always find it odd when the kiddies adopt some facet of what elsewhere is old, past, and considered so traditional as to be embarassing, (The Indonesian word for this is kampungan--as like in the kampungs/villages.)
It's just odd is all; here it's new and edgy and fringe, and elsewhere it's only the old ladies and granfathers back in the mountains who still sport the look.
And of course it's not just about big earrings/earplugs in the West. It becomes about gauge sizes: measureable, trackable, and something you can compete in.
It's just so frikking weird.
And anyway. Ears are nothing. You wanna look really different, try some neck-stretching.
rurounibug ; 10:50 PM|fine, ignore me