Keris-making criteria (?)

A. G. Maisey · 2nd April 2008, 12:57 PM

I do not recognise this as any Javanese that I know, so I showed it to two native speakers of Javanese, they do not recognise it either. I think we can be pretty certain it is not any level of Javanese. But I as I noted, as the two people I showed it to noted, and as you yourself would realise, Shahrial, there are words there that "smell" of a Malay base.

The spellings are maybe not all that important, if this is part of some verbal tradition, but I think the first thing we need to try to find out is exactly where it originates, once we know that we can work it through and with an understanding of the meaning, perhaps come close to understanding the intent.

As things stand now, I do not feel very inclined to try to guess even very vaguely what the intent might be.

2nd April 2008, 12:57 PM	#4
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,048	I do not recognise this as any Javanese that I know, so I showed it to two native speakers of Javanese, they do not recognise it either. I think we can be pretty certain it is not any level of Javanese. But I as I noted, as the two people I showed it to noted, and as you yourself would realise, Shahrial, there are words there that "smell" of a Malay base. The spellings are maybe not all that important, if this is part of some verbal tradition, but I think the first thing we need to try to find out is exactly where it originates, once we know that we can work it through and with an understanding of the meaning, perhaps come close to understanding the intent. As things stand now, I do not feel very inclined to try to guess even very vaguely what the intent might be.