john.robert_mcpherson
12 Official Reception for Palm Beach (Qld) SLSC instructional team at Waja SLSC, Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia. September 1977
12 Official Reception for Palm Beach (Qld) SLSC instructional team at Waja SLSC, Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia. September 1977.
The Deputy Governor delivered a short speech of acknowledging our visit and mission. I assume he was quite happy to us us, going by the smile on I Gde's face. I caught a few words but my basic, conversational Indonesian was not up to comprehending the speech. The Indonesian of the market place is an easily mastered language. Its more refined versions can be quite complex however. Root words attract seemingly endless numbers of prefixes and suffixes that subtly or substantially change the meaning of the word. 'Team penyelamat pantai' means 'beach rescue squad'. 'Selemat' which can mean 'safe' among other things becomes 'rescue' when the prefix 'peny' is added to give 'penyelamat'.
12 Official Reception for Palm Beach (Qld) SLSC instructional team at Waja SLSC, Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia. September 1977
12 Official Reception for Palm Beach (Qld) SLSC instructional team at Waja SLSC, Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia. September 1977.
The Deputy Governor delivered a short speech of acknowledging our visit and mission. I assume he was quite happy to us us, going by the smile on I Gde's face. I caught a few words but my basic, conversational Indonesian was not up to comprehending the speech. The Indonesian of the market place is an easily mastered language. Its more refined versions can be quite complex however. Root words attract seemingly endless numbers of prefixes and suffixes that subtly or substantially change the meaning of the word. 'Team penyelamat pantai' means 'beach rescue squad'. 'Selemat' which can mean 'safe' among other things becomes 'rescue' when the prefix 'peny' is added to give 'penyelamat'.