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context of utterance. Using the context, implicative meaning can be easily formulated. Below are the possible implicatures for the proverb:
1 Showing an event of something which has no bubbles at all.
2 Showing a person or a thing that drowns without any clue
3 Showing a person who running away from something and leaving no
clue. 4
Showing a person who does not want to be responsible.
The last implicature is the complete one and can be used as the implicative meaning behind the proverb. In conclusion, this proverb is showing that leaving
away from the responsibility is hated in Banjarese community. Proverb kadada buriniknya lalu
– lalu is not only proverb which portrays the irresponsible behavior. Below are other proverbs that portray the same behavior.
1. Kaya api dikubui banyu.
2. Kaya manimbai batu ka banyu.
3. Kaya siput dipais.
n. Stubbornly persistent
A person with stubbornly persistent behavior tends to refuse each advice given, he \
she never listen to others’ opinion. In this study, there are two proverbs which portray this behavior. One of them is proverb ngalih marasuk pandir. This
proverb contains three parts ngalih ‘hard, difficult’, marasuk ‘put on, connect,
adapt ’, pandir ‘chat, talk’ which can be literally understood as ‘difficult in
adapting the talk ’.
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This proverb has a clue of interpretation, verb phrase marasuk pandir. Verb marasuk has several meaning, it means
‘to put on’ if the verb is associated with clothing i.e. marasuk salawar
‘putting on the pants’, it means ‘to connect’ if it is associated with tools or work i.e. marasuk titilan
‘connecting the wood pieces
’, and means ‘to adapt’ if the verb is associated with environment or people i.e. marasuk akalan urang
‘adapting to others people to follow their idea’. Noun pandir has meaning chat or talk. It also can be associated with
‘advice’ since there is a well-known phrase pandiran urang tuha
‘advice from parents’. As for the meaning of phrase marasuk pandir in this proverb, it can clearly define as
‘adapting to others to give an advice properly’.
The use of the clue above will resulted in the formulation of an explicature. It
can be ‘hard to give an advice properly’. However, it is still unclear. In order to make clearer interpretation, the implicature are needed. Based
on the clue and the explicature, several possible implicatures can be formulated including:
1 Showing the difficulties of adapting to others’ talks.
2 Showing the difficulties of giving advice to someone who never listen.
3 Showing the difficulties of giving a proper advice that is easily obeyed.
Regarding the context of the utterance of the proverb, it can be seen that the proverb is usually uttered to show a person that he is stubbornly persistent and
hard to be given an advice. This proverb is also uttered by a person who has difficulties in giving a proper advice to others. In conclusion, the proverb ngalih
marasuk pandir shows the difficulties in giving advice especially to a stubbornly
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persistent person. This intention is also found in the proverb ngalih mambuang batu ka palatar. Since being stubbornly persistent is not only giving difficulties to
the person but also the others, it is regarded as bad behavior in Banjarese community and tends to be avoided.
o. Narrow-minded
