Sindaun

[Bryant Allen]

Re John's comments:
'Sindaun' is used commonly to mean something like 'quality of life' or
'standard of living'. E.g. 'sindaun bilong mipela em i no gut' = 'we do not
live good lives'. Or ' sindaun bilong yupela wetman, em i gutpela tru'=
'Europeans have a high standard of living'.

It can also refer to the location of an object. 'Haus bilongen, em i
sindaun antap long wanpela liklik maunten' = His house is on a small hill.

Even in 'sindaun gut' it means more than just sit down, more like 'make
yourself comfortable'.

You might try one of the web based 2nd hand book shops for a copy of Mihalic.

At 21:00 23/11/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Two enquires:
>
>1) Are copies of the Mihalic dictionary available anywhere these days?
>When I was in PNG last year I gave away my copy to a villager in Lababia
>whose ambition was to teach himself some english(!!!) To my dismay I
>then discovered the book was out of print. I checked every conceivable
>bookstore in Lae and Port Moresby but no one had any copies left. If
>anyone knows where I can get another copy, please let me know.
>
>2) I've been puzzling over the many meanings of "sindaun" lately - when
>used as a noun. Expressions like "lukautim bus na sindaun wantaim" crop
>up regularly in the conservation and development literature I collected.
>I understand this usage to be roughly equivalent to "quality of life"
>but perhaps that's stretching it a little? Sometimes it seems to just
>mean "livelihood". Has anyone run across other tok pisin terms that are
>used to mean "quality of life".
>
>John Wagner
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