Alt left selection inconsistency

I will demonstrate this by an example:
"I like ice cream."
Problem one
If I place the cursor just to the right of "ice" and presses in sequence:
shift+alt+left then shift+left
"_ice_" becomes selected instead of the expected "_ice".
When done the mirrored way: cursor left of "ice" and pressing
shift+alt+right then shift+right
"ice_" becomes selected which I would expect normally but is totally inconsistent with the "_ice_" selection described above.
Problem two
If I place the cursor just to the left of "ice" and presses
shift+alt+right then shift+left
"_i" becomes selected instead of the expected "ic" in "ice".
When done the mirrored way: cursor right of "ice" and pressing
shift+alt+left then shift+right
"ce" is selected just as expected.
Summary
After selecting anything with shift+alt, shift+right works as expected as in any other program. However when shift+left is pressed after a selection, Pages behave inconsistently with other Apple apps such as Safari and Finder. This unexpected behavior can get me quite upset at times because I use that kind of selection all the time in my work flow when editing text. I have experimented quite a bit with it and these problems seem to be consistent.
Is it a bug or is it a "feature" that can be disabled?
Please confirm if you can recreate this or if it works differently for you.
I also noted the same problem in text fields in Keynote which I would expect as they are closely related.
Any help is appreciated.
Update: the same problem is discussed in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/25443382#25443382
They conclude it is a bug.
Update: It seems that Apple is aware of the bug.
For others experiencing the same problem, a functioning but awkward work around is to use the commands ctrl+b and ctrl+f instead of arrow keys when selecting:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH15393

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