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English

When the novel was written, and indeed for numerous years afterwards, the Dutch colonial government was attempting to standardise Malay; the standardised form has been described by Hendrik Maier, a lecturer at Leiden University, as stilted.

Chinese

在小說出版的時候,荷蘭殖民政府一直在嘗試規範馬來文的語法,很多年之後還是如此;萊登大學講師亨德里克·邁爾(Hendrik Maier)認為正規馬來語是一門呆板的語言。