Cancer researcher Sloane (U. of California-Berkeley) has travelled extensively and visited southeastern Asia many times. He analyzes the morphology, history, etymology, and social context of a play language derived from the Jakartan dialect of Indonesian that young people use to conceal speech from outsiders. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Thomas H. Slone is a staff scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has published more than 35 papers in the field of cancer research over the past 18 years. He has traveled extensively, and has visited Southeast Asia many times. He is the editor and translator of the monumental collection of Papua New Guinean folktales, One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights.
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