TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS

FINAL EXAM (TAKE-HOME TEST)

Dicky Sena Adi W
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Title: Lexical Analysis of Kaskus Slang

Reasons:
1. Kaskus is the largest Indonesian community in the internet so it has quite unique
slang.
2. To help people easily understand Kaskus slang when they access it.
3. It is interesting to analyze how Kaskus slang are formed.
Data: The data is taken from thread and posting in www.kaskus.co.id and some of the them is
given below
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Gan, ane pesen cendol fullbar ye?

Minta bata aja gan, ane udah mabok cendol
Gile ni si agan, nawarnya afgan
Mejeng dulu di pejwan
Ijin sedot gan

Data analysis: Collect the data and then analyze how that word is formed. For instance,
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ijin sedot gan. The word sedot actually means download.

mejeng dulu di pejwan. pejwan here means Page one (the first page of a post)

Conclusion: As the result, most of Kaskus slang is using metaphor in the process of forming a
word. Also, some of words are the results of simplifying the pronunciation (Page
one becomes pejwan).