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| Thread ID: 150968 | 2022-10-29 04:57:00 | Oh yeah!! | Zippity (58) | PC World Chat |
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| 1489132 | 2022-10-29 04:57:00 | 11430 www.nzherald.co.nz "At that point, I was a little surprised. I didn't really feel upset or anything. I guess I was a bit shocked that someone would speak to me in such a way." So he has the right to address someone like that, but objects when the reply is NOT what he likes? More bullshit from the idiotic minority.................... |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1489133 | 2022-10-29 05:25:00 | At a cafe in Otaki a few years ago this unshaven, man-bun toting, sandle-wearing hippie barraged me with non-English when I walked in. On my way straight out again he got a similar response. |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 1489134 | 2022-10-29 18:38:00 | I don’t see the problem? One was speaking Maori the other Anglo Saxon. They were both bilingual and understood each other so how does this become News? :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1489135 | 2022-10-29 20:24:00 | White fragility.... reactions may include: anger fear arguing silence |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1489136 | 2022-10-30 03:07:00 | Sounds like a bit of a snow flake but the herald should have spelt it in the traditional Maori spelling of Whuk Owh | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1489137 | 2022-10-30 03:33:00 | Sounds like a bit of a snow flake but the herald should have spelt it in the traditional Maori spelling of Whuk Owh Ken :thumbs::thumbs: |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1489138 | 2022-10-30 04:42:00 | White fragility.... reactions may include: anger fear arguing silence Say's who? :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1489139 | 2022-10-30 05:13:00 | How horrific, imagine being greeted in one of our country's official languages. I'd be traumatised. The shock of it. Oh no. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1489140 | 2022-10-30 05:16:00 | Piroska, you missed out: becoming thoroughly unpleasant to be around as they realize they are doing a bad impersonation of King Canute "trying to stop the tide". | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1489141 | 2022-11-03 20:28:00 | It may well be an official language, but it is normally an effective impediment to comprehension. Language is a means of sharing knowledge and understanding without which we'd largely living in caves or structures made crudely or simply out of natural materials, living short lives and accepting whatever temperature nature delivered. S9iince greeting rituals and imploring blessings from invisible friends on the occasion of commencing, or restarting (non-primitive) projects these rituals can be compared with giving a child a toy or other distraction to pacify them when things outside their understanding occur. It doesn't matter to anyone else how the child treats their pacifier, it is theirs exclusively and has no real effect on others. Its job is purely to give the child something they are happy with and keeps them occupied. If the child insists that others suck their dummy or chew their doll, it is best if they're gently redirected. Similarly, if religion or official languages are allowed to interfere with normal life then gentle redirection of the dispensers is advised. The powhiri or the sermon don't need to be understood, there's no useful meaning or message or information to be conveyed. if everybody else is compelled to chew a pacifier or doll, the whole project starts to become childish and thus irrelevant. Better if adult observers offended by the sight or sound of the dummy just switch to reading a book or taking a stroll outside until the distraction is over. Most of these opening or dedication rituals will not lose their effectiveness whatever language is chosen, Latin or Esperanto would serve just as well as ancient Greek or phonetic Wingdings. If there is nothing in the message, it doesn't matter what it's wrapped in. The time taken with all the folderol is, sadly, irreplaceable. Observing a child busily chomping on a pacifier may be offensive to some, but if the alternative is screaming children then ignoring or avoiding the ritual may be the best way out and it avoids offending the child's parents who think the performance is normal and acceptable. |
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