natural semantic metalanguage

Definition of GOD DAMMIT from two different English dictionary :

1.      Use when we have bad feel like angry, fed up, displeasure, or angry

2.      Words that you say when you are frustrated about something

Definition of GOD DAMMIT from an indonesian dictionary :

1.      Kata yang mengekspresikan kemarahan

2.      Kata yang mengandung makna buruk

My translation :

1.      Word’s to express angry

2.      Word’s that have negative meaning

PART B

The concept of God Dammit can be explained through “reductive paraphrase” in NSM theory in the following lines:

X said God Dammit  (Y) =

(a)    Y is something like this :

(b)      Y is a part of swearwords

(c)       Y happen when X have bad feel

(d)      X said Y to express his feel

Explanation of each semantic component

1)      Component (a) introduces the concept of what is the so-called god dammit. It will be performed through some actions in the next components.

2)      Component (b) explain that god dammit is a part of swearwords actually have a negative meaning. This word like fuck, asshole, etc

3)       component (c) is that word will be said if someone feel angry or something bad inside of him and he see something that he would not see anything that dislike him and he often used the word.

4)      Component (d) is solution to ekspress X feel, with said Y, maybe X will be more calm down and can ekspress his feel more.