In Reply to: No, it doesn't posted by Advocatus Diavoli on Monday, 24. April 2006 at 14:13 Bali Time:
A lady who occasionally posts on BTF uses an Indonesian colloquialism for her name. I have been told by a Balinese friend who I see regularly [he lives near me in Australia] that what she uses is an incorrect form of the colloquialism. But as her husband is Balinese, I don't doubt that, to at least some Balinese people, it is correct. Perhaps the difference is to do with different dialect forms used in different parts of Indonesia.
Just think of the way English speaking people from English speaking countries say things differently from one another. For instance, you only have to move a few kilometres in parts of Britain to feel that you could almost be in another country. I grew up in Yorkshire and I can say things which even people from other parts of Yorkshire don't understand.
We all like to feel that we are well informed, but most of us are happy to show that by posting helpful answers to questions about Bali.
Language is constantly changing. If that was not true, then we would still be using the English of Shakespeare, Chaucer, or even earlier English writers. We can like it, or not like it, but it still happens and we may as well accept it.