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| Thread ID: 132951 | 2013-05-24 01:46:00 | Where to find a maari? | Mirddes (10) | PC World Chat |
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| 1342859 | 2013-05-24 02:35:00 | just say mouldy; Mau-ree is the pronouncation that means dog food. unlike english these differences do matter. i **** you not, you are capable of saying mouldy and it will probably sound correct. www.korero.maori.nz Sorry can't hear "mouldy" at all. If all news presenters were wrong don't you think there would be more comment? |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1342860 | 2013-05-24 02:37:00 | how do i enter words for this contraption to pronounce? | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1342861 | 2013-05-24 02:38:00 | I have another word for them. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1342862 | 2013-05-24 02:39:00 | i suppose mau-ree is MUCH better than maari im done, have a great day. thats my bits of insight for now. i smell like something ferral. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1342863 | 2013-05-24 02:44:00 | I studied a little maori for aggregate credits at Uni under Prof Bruce Briggs, (www.google.co.nz) a reknown NZ linguist and maori language contributor. He noted it's in the maori vowel sounds (www.korero.maori.nz) a-e-i-o-u said as {ah-eh-ee-or-oo} for proper maori pronunciation. So Mouldy does in fact sound as a correct pronuciation. Some say maori somtimes has the same vowels/alphabet sounds as Japanese. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1342864 | 2013-05-24 02:50:00 | official language, no excuse for tv presenters. ignorantly perpetuating a racist pronoucation. needs to be stopped by the light of truth. or in this case the sound of truth. when spanish becomes an official NZ language ill care a bit more about how NZ tv presenters pronounce spanish. you'd not expect tv presenters in spain to pronounce español wrong. Re:Mouldy: roll the L into an R and you can perfect the pronuciation maori is only an official language in NZ as a sop to the politically correct among the NZ populace who believe that this (Stone Age) language is important enough to prevent dying out. As you can probably tell, I am not one of these people. Despite hundreds of thousands of dollars being thrown at this every year (MaoriTV, Kohanga Reo etc), maori continues to decline as a spoken language. My point is that there are many more speakers of Spanish (and French and German and Chinese) and Dutch living in NZ than speakers of maori, but we don't pander to them (or go out of our way to pronounce their language correctly). |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1342865 | 2013-05-24 02:53:00 | do you honestly believe english to be a superiour language? where is this decline? more speakers exist today than ever before. maybe the relative numbers are deminishing. absolute figures on the other hand show an increase every year. fiat money isnt real. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1342866 | 2013-05-24 03:01:00 | do you honestly believe english to be a superiour language? where is this decline? more speakers exist today than ever before. maybe the relative numbers are deminishing. absolute figures on the other hand show an increase every year. fiat money isnt real. I never said English was a superior language, however try doing business with Chinese in maori and see how far you get. They are much more likely to speak English... maori language, IMO, is an anachronism, of no real use in the modern world, except to titillate the tourists. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1342867 | 2013-05-24 03:31:00 | IMO every language helps getting to the next. not learning maori in school is silly as learning a 3rd and 4th language becomes MUCH easier. to argue that maori is useless because of the lack of speakers outside of new zealand is to cut off your nose to spite your face. unless being a slave to one language appeals to you. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1342868 | 2013-05-24 03:38:00 | Mohdee is a bit too variable to be taken seriously yet. Like play dough, it is alright for toying with but there's not a lot of use for it in reality. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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