James Fallows, “American Bigshots Doing the Country Proud Overseas” (The Atlantic, Nov. 11, 2010)
Barack Obama, at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, making a speech about democracy in Indonesia, and a reprise on last year’s appeal to Islam — but also daring to talk a little bit in the Bahasa Indonesia (“language of Indonesia”) he heard around him as a child. … For expert analysis of how Obama handles the language, see Ben Zimmer at Language Log, here.
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