In Reply to: Read and Weep, Danile my brother.. posted by myardor on Friday, 12. November 2004 at 02:18 Bali Time:
...for the lesson in languistic, but what you are writing about the Balinese and Indonesian language is Indonesian-Guide-Book 101, but may be of some help to other forumites.
As you finally guessed, it happens often on this site, the people asking "How do you say this in Balinese?" really mean "in Indonesian." So this is why I assumed that FamilyHoliday's question was "in Indonesian." Like I say, Balinese do not say "good luck" as we use it in everyday conversation in English.
You write " (Modern Balinese)...influence from Dutch, Chinese, and English. What about influenced by Indonesian (which in turn is Malay)itself? Many of the written words, when one gets away from the everyday conversation, are the same as in Indonesian. Therefore the foreign words found in Indonesian are also found in Balinese.