Deconstructing Colloquial Indonesian

I found this Amazing book via Reddit: Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian, by James Sneddon.

In it, the Author deconstructs quoloquial Indonesian this way:

Screenshot of the book 'Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian'

Beyond correct translations into English, Sneddon also helps you understand how to parse each word, highlighting posessives, different verb forms, etc. I found his technique so useful to parse a sentence that I re-built a prototype of what he did below (hover on "kok" and "pijem" and click):

For fun, below, I translated this way of deconstructing sentences into actual code:

Kok

dp Kok
brani
n dare def
sih
dp sih
ampe
n until
pinjem
n borrow
duit
n money
ke
n to
orangtuanya
n her parents
gitu
n thus
?
n

How come she's bold enough to borrow money from her parents?

Highlight any word above, and you'll see their definition. For words that I already have in my database such as berani, you can even jump to a more complete definition. This is going to make it fun to deconstruct colloquial Indonesian down to its individual components. Exciting!

2021-07-06