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Bakato sapanjaang aka

               8.  Aesthetic Beauty
                     Beauty  can  be  manifested  in  several  forms  such  as

               manners (speech), basa basi (customs of manners) or social

               etiquette.
               9.  Chit Chat

                     Basa basi is a custom of manners or manners that are
               owned  by  the  Minang  community.  As  illustrated  in  the

               following traditional proverb:
                                        Pucuak pauah sadang tajelo,

                                        panjuluak Bungo ligundi.

                                        Want to stay away from disputes,
                                        Pahaluih Baso Jo Stale. 125

               10. Tact
                     Budi language is speech that is adapted to the conditions

               and situations, namely the social status of each. There is an
               official language and there is a folk language, so the rule of

               "who  speaks  to  whom  about  what,  where,  when  and  how"

               which  comes  from  linguistic  sociology,  is  a  consideration






                  125 Idrus Hakimy, Mustika Series, p. 79, which means: The mango
           shoot is bowing, the nickname of the ligundi flower, so that disputes are far
           removed, refine language and culture.
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