Please don’t laugh at me.
Like now, please don’t laugh just yet, coz I think this is, quite literally, an important discovery.
I just realized this during the last week (please also don’t ask why).
My discovery:
The Indonesian language don’t have a word for penis.
It’s true. It has colloquial for the standard usage. It has the overly sterile clinical description (sex organ) for official usage.
It has the Telly Tubbies version for the kiddy expressions.
In news papers, they will either go clinical about it, or use the Indonesian word for ‘embarrassment’ (funny that the MP with the small penis didn’t look the least bit embarrassed).
It uses the English word ‘penis’ for any other awkward circumstances. It’s not even in the dictionary.
It simply has no word for your occasionally polite dirty jokes.
For example, if you were to translate this post into Indonesian, you would have a really vulgar post. It would’ve been so brutally vulgar most Indonesians would be too embarrassed to read it in writing.
Indonesians language has no word for penis.
I find that really strange.
Now you can laugh.
PS: I just rechecked, and my dictionary is from 1987, so Indonesians might've discovered penis since then. Who knows...
Friday, January 05, 2007
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23 comments:
Let us know if you find your national penis ;)
1987!!!! GOOD GRIEF. We need to take up a collection for you to get a new dictionary. ;)
LOL, with so many Indonesions about the place, ya reckonn they'd have something to do with penis?? LOL
Thanks for the laugh, keep up the good work.
Why oh why you bump into this subject in a first place ?
HAPPY NEW YEAR and where's my Merlot ?
Is there a werd for peninsula?
How bout a werd for lower?
Kay. Now IMPROVISE!
Results from http://www.toggletext.com/kataku_trial.php
Penis -> Zakar
Did someone find a word for PENIS!!!! Do tell!
Penis: zakar.
Balls/pricks: buah zakar.
What's the word for tooth decay?
I've never seen and Indonesian penis.
we will improvise joe, we've been for a while and getting good at that.
According to the dictionary, zakar is more the balls rather than the penis.
anonymous: i'm getting tired and sick of your shit. I've had my bad toothache, unless you can help, please do, with sugar on top, shut the fuck up.
Thats it, Treespotter!
Kick im in th zakar -- wherevrnahell it is!
that's TOO funny!!
Ok, that is seriously odd. It must make medical notes rather unusual - what do they use in those I wonder?
I am your ex-girlfriend... and I am sure you will feel much much lighter after a dentist removes all these black layers of tar, nicotine, tea, coffee and crap.
Don't be mad at me, if I didn't have some feelings (pity?) for you I wouldn't even care posting on your blog.
margaret: is that a statement of interest? Do, be careful what you wish for.
BTW, the pics are somewhere there, the small penis, that is.
joey: i'm about to pass him to you.
vesper: that's not funny!! C'mon, imagine a language without penis!!
grunt: i think they use 'penis' for the medical term. Or maybe phallus or something. Shaft.
anon: yeah, it'll be better after the dentist is done. You'd miss the taste of me, i believe.
to everybody else: this anon is a sick twisted stalker with an obsession on teeth. I've a tooth problem, so we keep him around for a while.
btw, anon, if you're really my ex, do you mind if i post your nude pics online?
Good One! LoL. This is my favourite post, well.. after the one with Mowgli's nose and the brakfast! :-)
LOL to this post :D
thanks for the laugh!
My observation:
Indonesians consider penis and vagina as private organ of body and it's always shy to talk about them in public. Therefore, we normally talk about it only with trustworthy people, such as our family members.
Moreover, because in families we are still closely related each other by ethnic groups, we often describe them with our ethnic language.
As evidence, you can find terms for penis and vagina in those ethnic languages, such as Sundanese, Javanese, etc.
On the other hand, in medical context, e.g when we see a doctor, penis and vagina is widespreadly used.
Btw, Indonesian is developing language. It was only declared in 20th century. Latest standardization was done in 1972. From there, we have a set of standardized rules to absorb any word from any language.
1987! is that when you first came indonesia then!
i'm sure indonesian has "absorbed" the word penis into its own word... penis! how original =)
question: what's the pl for penis! is it penises or penes!
bee: you just like penis...
din: i am just glad that people in the medical profession have discovered penis.
lava: Oh no, i been here much longer than that.
i think it's 'penises' but i can't be sure. i have only one.
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