Free Stuff!

Stuff I’ve won…

• 3 Nintendo Wii’s
• 10 Motorola RAZRs
• 1 Toshiba laptop
• 3 times 3 days/2 nights stay at the Bellagio in Vegas
• 4 night Cancun vacation
• About $15000 in cash

…at least if you believe the subject lines of the e-mails in my spambox.

“1100 unread messages”. Ah, thanks, Yahoo! But as I mentioned before, my account is 10 years old, I can’t just give it up. So it’s become my spam-trap address, unfortunately.

So much crap on the internet… I long for the good old days^TM

Bahasa Indonesia?

Anyway, time for a stupid rant. Though there’s a connection to my previous post because it’s about languages.

Goddammit, why the hell is it that people insist on calling Indonesian (the language) “Bahasa Indonesia”, even if they’re talking in English?

The word “bahasa” means “language”. As an example, most of the time you don’t need to say “I’m learning the German language.”, “I’m learning German.” is sufficient. And you sure as hell don’t say “I’m learning die deutsche Sprache.”, unless you want to be seen as a dork. No German would say “Ich lerne (the) english language.” either. Not one I would respect anyway.

So people, please, just call it Indonesian. OK?

That is all.