“Nothing that would stand in court”

A good, but painful illustration of where we are with the war in Afghanistan.

From Sandy Levinson at Balkinization.

Indonesians adopting English? Or Indonesians adopting Indonesian?

There is a good discussion here on the rise of English in Indonesian metropoles. In the comments section Timdog makes a very good point that in much of rural and periurban Indonesia, the more significant linguistic phenomenon is the rise of Indonesian over local languages.