and food to eat. For some, it marked those who said "please" before a command,
or who called a person by name and not by the job they performed. For others it
distinguished those who trusted their servants enough not to bolt their cupboards
and closets, not to inspect for hoarded change when a servant returned from the
market. Some people used it to describe those who spoke in Javanese rather than
barking commands in Dutch, while others reserved it as a stamp of approval on
those Dutch who learned to maneuver the intricacies of high and low Javanese