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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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1342919	2013-05-24 22:10:00	Geeze ... so did I Wal ... I thought flat money was when you put a penny on the railway tracks and waited for the train to flatten it !	SP8's (9836)
1342920	2013-05-25 00:21:00	Geeze ... so did I Wal ... I thought flat money was when you put a penny on the railway tracks and waited for the train to flatten it ! I thought that was illegal :p	pcuser42 (130)
1342921	2013-05-25 01:34:00	Discussing how to pronounce maori is a useless waste of time. Who is there amongst us that can categorically say what is correct? My understanding of the correct pronunciation of any language is the way that it is pronounced by the native speakers of that language. As far as the maori language is concerned there are not too many of those. The laughable attempts at maori pronunciation by the TV newsreaders sounds ridiculous. Who do they consult? Or do they just make it up? Orportorki for Opotiki, Toepor for Taupo. And many more of a similar ilk. And how do you come up with Fongaray for Whangarei? Pronouncing wh as f is just insane. Maori had no written language before the Europeans arrived. The missionaries wrote it down as they heard it. So why would they write Tauranga if the maoris pronounced it Toerunga? These were educated people. They wrote it down as they heard it. Any other way of pronouncing maori is ludicrous. And as for learning another language is concerned, it makes much more sense to learn a useful tounge such as a European language or Mandarin or Cantonese. What good is maori? Even the majority of the moaris can't speak their own tongue. If you must learn another language, don't waste your time with something that has little or no use. Learn something useful. Speak a language that others can understand.	Roscoe (6288)
1342922	2013-05-25 02:50:00	maori vowels are similar to japanese	Mirddes (10)
1342923	2013-05-25 03:36:00	maori vowels are similar to japanese The sounds in Japanese and Maori may have a correlation, but that's the only similarity between them. (It does make Maori placenames much easier for the Japs though.)	pcuser42 (130)
1342924	2013-05-25 04:06:00	Discussing how to pronounce maori is a useless waste of time. Who is there amongst us that can categorically say what is correct? My understanding of the correct pronunciation of any language is the way that it is pronounced by the native speakers of that language. As far as the maori language is concerned there are not too many of those. The laughable attempts at maori pronunciation by the TV newsreaders sounds ridiculous. Who do they consult? Or do they just make it up? Orportorki for Opotiki, Toepor for Taupo. And many more of a similar ilk. And how do you come up with Fongaray for Whangarei? Pronouncing wh as f is just insane. Maori had no written language before the Europeans arrived. The missionaries wrote it down as they heard it. So why would they write Tauranga if the maoris pronounced it Toerunga? These were educated people. They wrote it down as they heard it. Any other way of pronouncing maori is ludicrous. And as for learning another language is concerned, it makes much more sense to learn a useful tounge such as a European language or Mandarin or Cantonese. What good is maori? Even the majority of the moaris can't speak their own tongue. If you must learn another language, don't waste your time with something that has little or no use. Learn something useful. Speak a language that others can understand. :+1:	johcar (6283)
1342925	2013-05-25 04:22:00	Bloody SP8's, derailing trains in Wellington with coins! tisk tisk!	The Error Guy (14052)
1342926	2013-05-25 04:24:00	Originally Posted by SP8's Geeze ... so did I Wal ... I thought flat money was when you put a penny on the railway tracks and waited for the train to flatten it ! I thought that was illegal :p Not illegal, just impractical. The train could be hours, if not days, late. ;) :D	R2x1 (4628)
1342927	2013-05-25 04:25:00	Bloody SP8's, derailing trains in Wellington with coins! tisk tisk! Just his 2C worth :2cents: :thanks	R2x1 (4628)
1342928	2013-05-25 04:41:00	Not illegal, just impractical. The train could be hours, if not days, late. ;) :D Meanwhile a crash on the Newmarket viaduct holds up the entire road network for weeks :p	pcuser42 (130)
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