[Mihalic] kai2

[Lise M. Dobrin]

Hi Eva and everyone,

It's interesting that this is diffusing over to PNG just now. I have 
an Indonesian student here in Virginia who I'd asked about this 
convention when I was attempting a translation of a short 
B.Indonesian text, and he kind of chuckled and remarked that it was a 
fad now passed, and that it indicated that the text in question was 
at least a few years old (which it was). Whether the convention is 
truly no longer used in B. Indonesian I couldn't say, but it does 
suggest it's a cultural phenomenon in motion there as well as in PNG.

Lise


>I have seen it develop among Divine Word University  (Madang ) students in
>the last 2 years.
>As far as our campus was concerned, I thought that they might have developed
>the habit from East Timorese students - whom we have had on campus for the
>last 5 years - and whose first education language was Bahasa Indonesia.
>
>Catherine Levy
>Madang
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Eva Lindstrom" <evali at ling.su.se>
>To: <Mihalic at anu.edu.au>
>Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:14 AM
>Subject: [Mihalic] kai2
>
>
>>  Hello all,
>>
>>  are you familiar with the habit of writing words like kaikai,
>>  pukpuk etc as kai2, puk2 (with superscript '2')? I've seen it
>>  in personal letters (in New Ireland) and am curious how and
>>  where it may have developed -- between high school students
>>  separated in holidays or after leaving school? How spread is
>  > it? Are there other practices of a similar kind?
>>
>>  Thanks & best wishes,
>>
>>  Eva Lindström
>>  Linguistics
>>  Stockholm University
>>
>>
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