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CHAPTER II THE JOB AT BALAI BAHASA PROVINSI JAWA BARAT
2.1 Balai Bahasa Provinsi Jawa Barat
Balai Bahasa Provinsi Jawa Barat is located at Jalan Sumbawa No 11
th
, Bandung. It is an institution that carries out the research, and development of
language and literature. Beside of that, Balai Bahasa also has so many programs of linguistics every year. The programs are UKBI Uji Kemahiran Berbahasa
Indonesia, festival of literature, research of historical literature and others.
2.2 Job Position in Balai Bahasa Provinsi Jawa Barat
In Balai Bahasa, the writer is take the position as linguistics section for two months and assigned to make a book about linguistics. Next, it will be printed
and published if the discussion and the language that the writer used are very interesting to read. So when two months worked there, the writer tries to make a
book discussing about slang terms in English. And then that slang terms in English will be discussed into Bahasa.
2.3 Responsibility
After two months works in Balai Bahasa, the book was successfully printed but not published yet. And the title is “Yuk Mengenal Istilah Slang Dalam
Bahasa Inggris ”. This is an informal book, because the writer so sure that
everything that discussed here are not taught at school. But the important thing,
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the terms that discussed in this book will be very important. Because in here, so many people in Indonesia don’t know about the existence of slang terms in
English. Here is the picture of the book “Yuk Mengenal Istilah Slang Dalam
Bahasa Inggris ”:
Balai Bahasa Provinsi Jawa Barat is located at Sumbawa Street 11
th
West Java, Bandung, Indonesia. To get information about Balai Bahasa Provinsi Jawa
Barat online, it has a website to accommodate it at www.balaibahasajabar.web.id
. All information about Balai Bahasa can be found easily on the site.
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CHAPTER III THE SLANG TERMS IN MEANING AND CULTURE
The book entitled “Yuk Mengenal Istilah Slang Dalam Bahasa Inggris” is
the final result of the job training that has been conducted for two months. That book discusses about the definition and introduction of slang terms for Indonesian
people. The slang terms discussed on this report are American slang and British Slang. The writer realizes that the slang terms written in the book
“Yuk Mengenal Istilah Slang Dalam Bahasa Inggris” never taught in school and will not be found
in the English dictionary. It is occurred because there are so many definitions of the slang terms tend to rude, vulgar, disrespectful, insulting, and dirty. But, there
are also so many slang terms interesting to discuss. Hence, it makes the writer interested to discuss the phenomenon of the slang terms and published it into a
book. The slang terms of English are very interesting to discuss especially for Indonesian people that are not very familiar with slang terms.
In the book entitled “Yuk Mengenal Istilah Slang Dalam Bahasa Inggris”,
there are so many examples that using slang terms. The writer discusses about the definition of the slang terms with some conversations examples. Thus, the writer
expects that the reader can easily understand the purpose and the meaning of the slang terms mentioned in the book. The writer also differentiates and separates the
examples of slang terms American and British. For example, the case of “pom
bensin” phrase in Indonesia. In American “pom bensin”is more familiar with “gas station”. But in British slang, “pom bensin” is familiar with “petrol station”.
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