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Thread ID: 125858	2012-07-24 00:38:00	Maori language week	lakewoodlady (103)	PC World Chat

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1290372	2012-07-24 01:55:00	So, I'll most likely get bood off the forum, but here goes anyway. Tena koutou katoa! LL What an absolute load of rubbish and a complete waste of time! I just can't understand why anyone persists with promoting an almost dead language. Who gives a stuff? Not even many maori are interested, so why do we have to put up with this twaddle? English is the prominent tongue in this very English country. So let's forget about all the poor attempts at promoting a language that has almost no relevance in this country. I have only heard of one use for the maori languague. Maori was used in WW2 to pass radio messages. It saved time as the messages did not need to be encoded. Nobody else in the world understood what they were saying. The same is still true all these years later and the reality is that even fewer speak this dying tongue today. Unfortunately there seems to be some sort of misdirected need to preserve the language and that is fine if that is what you want to do. What I object to is how it is pushed upon everybody - even those who have not the slightest interest. Maori language week? What a complete waste of time, effort and taxpayers' money!	Roscoe (6288)
1290373	2012-07-24 02:16:00	Is that why Invercargill is listed as 'Waihōpai' on the weather maps. It seems that Maori Language week is designed to confuse the majority of the population with unintelligible rubbish on the weather map. And who is paying for all this useless crap? Not the maoris but the taxpayer! At least we only have to put up with this crap one week in the year, although you would think that if the promoters of maori language week were passionate about the language they would make it maori language year. Thank goodness the promoters are only playing and are not committed. We just could not stand this rubbish all the time.	Ulsterman (12815)
1290374	2012-07-24 02:42:00	What an absolute load of rubbish and a complete waste of time! I just can't understand why anyone persists with promoting an almost dead language . Who gives a stuff? Not even many maori are interested, so why do we have to put up with this twaddle? English is the prominent tongue in this very English country . So let's forget about all the poor attempts at promoting a language that has almost no relevance in this country . I have only heard of one use for the maori languague . Maori was used in WW2 to pass radio messages . It saved time as the messages did not need to be encoded . Nobody else in the world understood what they were saying . The same is still true all these years later and the reality is that even fewer speak this dying tongue today . Unfortunately there seems to be some sort of misdirected need to preserve the language and that is fine if that is what you want to do . What I object to is how it is pushed upon everybody - even those who have not the slightest interest . Maori language week? What a complete waste of time, effort and taxpayers' money! How is it not relevant? - You spoken to maori ex prisoners? The hard core set . I knew a maori man inside a while back, said he felt better after leaning maoritonga, whakapapa, etc . Many of our cities, suburbs and towns are named in maori, of which some people have awful pronunciation, when I worked in the corporate upper middle class world . Wakatane, Onehanga, Rotaroa, Manacow . Sure as you say who cares . . . So all forget or some?	kahawai chaser (3545)
1290375	2012-07-24 02:54:00	It's the thought police, who exactly are they? If you work in any government department, you must go through various rituals, why people put up with it is beyond me, they must frighted I suppose.	Cicero (40)
1290376	2012-07-24 03:00:00	How long does this krap go on for?? :( Until Jen calls a stop	BBCmicro (15761)
1290377	2012-07-24 03:03:00	monologuists rule!	sam m (517)
1290378	2012-07-24 03:32:00	How is it not relevant? - You spoken to maori ex prisoners? The hard core set . I knew a maori man inside a while back, said he felt better after leaning maoritonga, whakapapa, etc . Many of our cities, suburbs and towns are named in maori, of which some people have awful pronunciation, when I worked in the corporate upper middle class world . Wakatane, Onehanga, Rotaroa, Manacow . Sure as you say who cares . . . So all forget or some? You knew ONE man? That does not even qaulify as a minority! I might give a damn how maori is pronounced if they gave a damn as to how English is pronounced . It seems that it is okay to mis-pronounce English, but whatever you do don't mis-pronounce moari! But then who is it among us who decides what is correct maori pronunciation? My understanding is that there were many different dialects throughout the country and it depended on the tribe as to the way words were pronounced . But why does it matter? It's only a minority that cares . Let that minority play with the maori language among themselves . Don't involve me as I could not give a damn . Thankfully this crap only lasts a week! See what you started, LL . So some hard core prisoners feel better after learning this rubbish . Good for them . If it makes them feel better then go ahead . Just don't push it on me . I'm not the slightest bit interested .	Roscoe (6288)
1290379	2012-07-24 03:47:00	How is it not relevant? - You spoken to maori ex prisoners? The hard core set. I knew a maori man inside a while back, said he felt better after leaning maoritonga, whakapapa, etc. We should care because a hardcore criminal felt better? I hope they also taught him something relevant as it seems he still retained the capacity to be educated.	Metla (12)
1290380	2012-07-24 03:49:00	I am disappointed that people on this forum that I otherwise respect every now and then show an unpleasant streak. Intolerance towards anybody 'different', just like the republicans in the US Of course, I was no different in my younger days. We used to scorn anybody who played soccer (as it used to be called) or if their family had a 4-cylinder car. Women were treated like walnut trees, girls were "pieces of fluff". The mentally ill were like that through their own fault. Anybody poor was automatically lazy and probably alcoholic, only sissies voted labour....	BBCmicro (15761)
1290381	2012-07-24 04:00:00	I am disappointed that people on this forum that I otherwise respect every now and then show an unpleasant streak. Intolerance towards anybody 'different', just like the republicans in the US Of course, I was no different in my younger days. We used to scorn anybody who played soccer (as it used to be called) or if their family had a 4-cylinder car. Women were treated like walnut trees, girls were "pieces of fluff". The mentally ill were like that through their own fault. Anybody poor was automatically lazy and probably alcoholic, only sissies voted labour.... And what have you learnt since then? :) :)	Zippity (58)
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