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Thread ID: 150964 2022-10-27 02:51:00 Should New Zealand be officially known as Aotearoa? Zippity (58) PC World Chat
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1489097 2022-10-27 18:38:00 It appears at 1:19 for the type of keyboard you use. Bryan (147)
1489098 2022-10-28 03:09:00 As long as we allow the "Woke Folk" to drive this country, they will kowtow to every whim of every minority, whether they be brown, homosexual or budding terrorists .

What else could we expect now that every government department is labelled with an unpronounceable name that fails to identify their purpose . Our cities and towns have been renamed so that when mentioned by TVNZ, we haven't the foggiest idea where they are talking about .

And when a token effort is made at a dual nomenclature, it results in a name that is so long as to be unwieldy, just to placate the stupid minority . We got along very well for more than a few decades with the place and departmental names as they used to be .

Great Post, right on the button . :thumbs:
B.M. (505)
1489099 2022-10-28 06:36:00 Over my dead body, I say.


Well....old people will be dead soon and then the young get to choose.
I don't mind. Better than a Dutch name.
piroska (17583)
1489100 2022-10-28 06:51:00 Its a NO from me and I will do my best to make sure it never happens. prefect (6291)
1489101 2022-10-28 20:48:00 Well....old people will be dead soon and then the young get to choose.
I don't mind. Better than a Dutch name.

Nothing wrong with the old Dutch name.
paulw (1826)
1489102 2022-10-29 00:00:00 Nothing wrong with the old Dutch name.

Very true. At least the rest of the world recognises the name. They won't know that made up name and it would cost a small fortune to educate them and for what reason? Just to placate a noisy minority? I think a better reason than that is required.:waughh:
Roscoe (6288)
1489103 2022-10-29 20:03:00 I don't care all that much just thought I'd mention that all names are made up names and all words are made up sounds. No particular language is special in that respect. dugimodo (138)
1489104 2022-10-29 21:00:00 Definitely not .. cowboy stu (7021)
1489105 2022-10-31 07:21:00 and..

can we please stop using maori names for govt departments.
I have no idea what govt dept they are talking about when mentioned on the news.

I suspect most wont know what govt depts they are when using the maori name , so what bureaucrat thought that would be a good idea.
1101 (13337)
1489106 2022-10-31 07:48:00 Exactly my point in #9.

There seems to be a concerted effort to obfuscate the most essential names on the pretext that Maori is an official language. But when it leads to complete incomprehension of the probably 80% of New Zealanders who do not speak Maori, one wonders what nefarious plan is at work.

Creating confusion has long been a strategy of conquest. So what is the secret agenda? Am I the only NZer who smells a rat?
Blue Druid (4480)
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