Saturday, May 16, 2009

Memperkenalkan / Introducing the Bahasawan Linguarati

Blog ini dicipta untuk merakam buah-buah fikiran tentang Bahasa, terutama Bahasa Melayu dan yang berkait dengannya spt Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia dan lain-lain bahasa serumpun Nusantara Melayu. Makanya saya cipta nama "Bahasawan" yakni yang berkepakaran atau berurusan dalam bidang bahasa, spt Angkasawan, Negarawan, Sasterawan, Usahawan dsb. dlm perkara masing-masing. "Linguerati" juga ialah kata ciptaan saya sendiri yang saya beri maksud petinggi atau yang mekar dalam sesuatu perkara spt Literati di bidang sastera, Glitterati bagi para elit kaya dll. - 'lingua' bermakna lidah atau bahasa dalam bahasa Latin and Itali.

This blog was created to record thoughts and ideas on Bahasa or Language, especially the Malay language and those related to it including the Indonesian and Malaysian vernaculars as well as all those that are part of the shared tongues of the Malay Archipelago. Thus I created the name "Bahasawan" by which I mean one who is a high practitioner in the subject of language, just as Angkasawan, Negarawan, Sasterawan, Usahawan are in their own fields. "Linguerati" is also a word I created which I give the meaning also as a high practitioner or insider in a field, the same as Literati for literature, the Glitterati for the rich elite and so on - 'lingua' means tongue or language in Latin and Italian.

Guru Bahasa - Sang Bahasawan

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