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by frankosaurus 1456 days ago
John McWhorter suggested that colloquial Indonesian would be an ideal universal language for the world.

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/john-mcwhorter/

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fascinating, I am indonesian and since I have spent majority of my life abroad, my indonesian has been stuck in the past. It's very colloquial as in, I cannot speak like a news caster, due to this, I tend to speak english to fellow indonesians simply because I dont know the formal words for ideas that I try to convey, but I can almost make every english word indonesian-ified.