Bahasa Indonesia

Friday, 3rd March 2006
11.35AM
Prins Hendrikkade, Amsterdam

Bahasa Indonesia is very inefficient.
As if (2) = Seolah-olah (5)
Currently (3) = Belakangan ini (6)
Somewhat (2) = Kira-kira (4)

Note: Do not emphasize on the amount of characters but on the amount of syllables. It would be interesting to do an analysis on the relations of Bahasa Indonesia's vast amount of syllables in conversational sentences with the culture of 'basa-basi'.