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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear JJ and Judith and all. I liked Judith's
def with Indonesian derivation, and I have sitting before me a "Teach
Yourself... Indonesian" book circa 1965. The very first sentence in the
Introduction says, "Indonesian is a fairly new language. It developed from
Malay...." The Preface states, "Though the members of the 200 Indonesian
ethnic groups speak their respective vernaculars among themselves, they also
speak and understand Indonesian...." "A foreigner with some
knowledge of Indonesian might travel to the remotest area or set foot on the
smallest island of Indonesia, and yet meet some one from whom he could ask
information...." Humorously, I think, the first example of a question
is "Where does the sculptor live?" ...whereas the first
question we taught our kids to ask in Spanish was "Donde esta el bano?" So,
JJ, what were/are "the five phrases?" As for a sawby, friends of ours
from CA just wrote up a description of an extraordinary tour through Northern
Mexico to Copper Canyon, where the last leg of the journey was by one-track
railroad, with a siding at each station. Cheers,
Linda</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>