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Thread ID: 148485	2020-01-26 17:58:00	The elemental curiosity of attempting to force Te Reo on the populace ...	Roscoe (6288)	PC World Chat

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1466226	2020-01-28 06:30:00	Nelson prices have gone through the roof as all those Aucklanders who can't afford the prices there are renting and buying in Nelson Drivel. Every place in NZ blames Aucklanders for the price hikes. The place should be empty by now if that was the case. Nothing to do with Aucklanders and not every place in Auckland is worth a fortune either. My old one for instance. Most of the neighbours too. Tauranga is more expensive as an average.	piroska (17583)
1466227	2020-01-28 08:26:00	Not drivel at all it is happening and has been for a long while now, every house in our old neighbourhood except us had absent Auckland owners, one of the reasons we cashed up and moved away	gary67 (56)
1466228	2020-01-28 19:33:00	Absent owners....in other words landlords. And they come from all over. When we were down South the main owners there were Australians. You might find Auckland over represented in that statistic simply because it has the biggest population of any city in the country. Certainly doesn't mean they all moved out.	piroska (17583)
1466229	2020-01-29 03:38:00	Did maori learn moriori or just eat the language out of them. Father and Grandfather could speak Maori, they used to cater for a lot of functions and us kids used to wonder the f**k they were saying. te nakway e hor , was some type of greeting we thought. Ka pi te mini pi, was something good. Bl**dy French at High School, what fing use was that to me after High School. lurking.	Lurking (218)
1466230	2020-01-29 03:58:00	Bl**dy French at High School, what fing use was that to me after High School. lurking. If you had travelled to New Caledonia, Quebec, France, or other French speaking countries - of which there are quite a few - it would have been much more useful than maori which is not spoken anywhere else except New Zealand and some parts of Sydney. And you would be surprised at how much more you are accepted if you at least make an attempt to speak their language. They like your efforts. But then, if you have not travelled anywhere you'll never know. You'll just stay ignorant. Pity. :rolleyes::groan:	Roscoe (6288)
1466231	2020-01-29 04:57:00	Did maori learn moriori or just eat the language out of them . Father and Grandfather could speak Maori, they used to cater for a lot of functions and us kids used to wonder the f**k they were saying . te nakway e hor , was some type of greeting we thought . Ka pi te mini pi, was something good . Bl**dy French at High School, what fing use was that to me after High School . lurking . A guy who topped the class in French when I was at school eventually went to France fully equipped and well prepared, only to find he couldn’t understand them and they couldn’t understand him . He reckoned it was equivalent to an excited Scotsman speaking English . And te nakway e hor you speak of was how Waikato Maori pronounced tēnā koe when I was at school .	B.M. (505)
1466232	2020-01-29 06:03:00	A guy who topped the class in French when I was at school eventually went to France fully equipped and well prepared, only to find he couldn’t understand them and they couldn’t understand him. He reckoned it was equivalent to an excited Scotsman speaking English. And te nakway e hor you speak of was how Waikato Maori pronounced tēnā koe when I was at school. You mean; Tin of cocoa, car door. :p	WalOne (4202)
1466233	2020-01-29 06:18:00	You mean; Tin of cocoa, car door. :p Or Kothanga .... Car Aerial. :)	B.M. (505)
1466234	2020-01-29 06:53:00	I took French for 3 years at Mot High had no choice for the first two years because I was in the A class and streamed to take French. Could have changed in 5th form but I thought might as well carry on with it. Its helped me a bit I can still get the gist of written French and Can struggle through a conversation in French much like the Communist Chinese who come in their droves to my work everyday try to speak Chinglish. Had a laugh when I was on a ship alongside at Reunion island, someone in the Forward POs mess had invited several Foreign Legion soldiers onboard to scupper piss. There was one Welshman legionnaire who refused to speak English only and we thought he was a numbnutz. Another story a pipe came over the broadcast asking if there was a French speaker among us Airmen and sailors could come to the shore bridge wing and help with the the docking. A man volunteered his famous words over the loud speaker: put ze rope over the bollard.	prefect (6291)
1466235	2020-01-29 08:20:00	If you had travelled to New Caledonia, Quebec, France, or other French speaking countries - of which there are quite a few - it would have been much more useful than maori which is not spoken anywhere else except New Zealand and some parts of Sydney . And you would be surprised at how much more you are accepted if you at least make an attempt to speak their language . They like your efforts . But then, if you have not travelled anywhere you'll never know . You'll just stay ignorant . Pity . :rolleyes::groan: Travelled anywhere!!!!!! . If Helga knew where we have traveled over the years she would have a fit . They now want to curtail "travel" especially by air, that would p"ss the now generation off, that's a pity . Maori would have helped in the South Pacific places visited and Hawaii, rest of the world visited catered for our Kiwi twang . lurking .	Lurking (218)
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