my date tonite is Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, or once Curer Belle. c'est tres genial lis elle livre. amazing to read how the 167 years old stories remain the same, using the same language. people 2 centuries ago, spoke the words as now, in britain.
2 centuries ago, 1800, my beloved country's still under dutch imperialism. slave country begging lives to the foreigners. we had hundreds language to use until now, but forgotten and lost a lot in evry year.
' there was no possibility of taking a walk that day. we had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning'
was the opening sentence of the novel.
no difference with today british language.
i assume, their language is stiff,unchanged, conservative, and showing the pride and dignity. it doesnt change.only spice girls maybe is the different of the 1800 england and 2000.not jamie oliver.

i read this magazine saying that the scottish language is the second most complex and educated lang in the world, after the whale. how? ask national geographic.

as a gal coming from a nation whose rich culture and language like mine, it shook me in the head. should i be envy of the everlasting lang like brit? or not.
here's what i thought.
indonesian bahasa is a young lang.
it was meant to unify the diverse extraordinary people, 28 oct 08. originally from malay.
before, we spoke in many. sundanese, javanese, bugis, etc. their age each, i believe is much older than european langs.
now we rarely use those, and mostly get annoyed when we hear our friend speak those native lang.how dangerous.. the fact is there are numbers of native langs has been extinct since nobody use them anymore.
this is sad.
20 years ago, we shyly laughed hearing people talk european. 100 years ago, dutch was obliged to be known by us. today, european, east asian, are merely a must lang we have.
how about the native langs lies hidden beneath the diminishing jungle, right next to your home?