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Ana hilang shoes : multilingualisme pada anak

Kawan saya Deen Aljunied menceritakan pengalamannya ketika mengajar di Sekolah Menengah Muhammadiyah Singapura. Suatu ketika seorang muridnya mengatakan kepadanya, “Ana hilang shoes”. “Can you imagine, Bang?” katanya ketika menceritakan hal itu kepada saya, “three words from three languages in a single sentence.” Entah apa yang ada dalam benak kawan saya itu, tapi saya menangkap kegamangan [...]

Asides

If Moses had gotten the Ten Commandments on a floppy disk, it would never have made it to today. (Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, The NYTimes Circuit, 26-Mar-2009)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

“The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it. I’m used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean.” said Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, after surveying tornado damage there.

James Madison said, “If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one.” In Indonesia, …, well no comment.

Setelah empat belas hari menunggu, akhirnya saya bisa menikmati kembali berita-berita dari Bandung. Harian PR tampil dengan wajah baru dengan koneksi yang tampaknya lebih kencang.