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A dictionary of Indonesian abbreviations

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Parsidi, Agata and Roger Tol (eds.)

Any reader and speaker of Indonesian experiences the enormous amount of abbreviations and acronyms. They are everywhere: in newspapers, journals, books, on billboards, cars, street signs, flags, in text messages, you name it. Indonesian abbreviations are not only written down and read, but are also part and parcel of the spoken language, in particular slang and youth language. A popular hobby of many Indonesians is to invent (usually funny) abbreviations on the spot, or to create new meanings of well-established ones, thereby often crossing linguistic borders.

 

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