Yes Rick, you are right, but it makes perfect sense if you are Javanese, and maybe for some other people too.
It is a general principle of Javanese communication that when you say something, it means precisely what you intend it to mean, no more, and no less. How the person receiving the message interprets what you are saying is up to him.
Javanese people in my experience are not good, nor effective letter writers, but they do communicate very well in a face to face situation. This is because at least half of all interpersonal communication with Javanese people is through body language.
It is a general principle of Javanese culture & society that the more meanings you can give to any one thing, the better. The true meaning will be obvious to the person who has the right or the need to understand , to others the understanding they gain will be in accordance with their level of knowledge or need.
Now this does not mean that only one person or idea can be correct, rather, it means that everybody can be correct, depending upon their own individual perspective.
Names are not particularly important, understanding is.
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