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| Thread ID: 111418 | 2010-07-26 11:55:00 | It's the white man's fault | ubergeek85 (131) | PC World Chat |
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| 1122495 | 2010-07-26 21:17:00 | To put it bluntly, I doubt you could write particularly gripping fiction in Te Reo Maori; it's so descriptively clumsy that you'd need one whole page to say what could be said in one paragraph in English. | nofam (9009) | ||
| 1122496 | 2010-07-26 22:48:00 | I find it difficult to understand that no-one has entered the competition. $10000 is a great prize. Why not translate your own work and enter it? Or is lack of interest in $10000 symptomatic of the lack of interest in maori? Sounds as though it is. Imagine the outrage if they had a Caucasian writers book prize. Very true. It's interesting to note that racism only works in one direction. I'm annoyed that you can have a maori only rugby team, but imagine the screams of RACISM if you suggested a whites only rugby team! On a similar theme: Have you noticed the tokenism on TV weather for maori language week? If there was the interest in the maori language, the maori people would be so annoyed with the tokenism, but they're not. Why are they not upset with the fact that the moari language is only showcased one week per year? Surely they should want it featured every week of the year? The fact that it is not and the fact that no-one seems to care that it's not, is a very large indication of the apathy toward the language. Is there anywhere else in the world where maori is spoken? Learning Mandarin in school makes much more sense. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1122497 | 2010-07-26 22:57:00 | If just one person had entered *something* they would have $10,000 by default by being the only entrant. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1122498 | 2010-07-26 23:02:00 | I wont allow my kids to take maoris at school, I did french for 4 years at Mot High School. My kids language choice is German or french. My chinese wife speaks Mandarin and Hokkien, one chinese speaker is enough in my family thanks very much. I didnt do me any harm in my engineering career. In fact I smoked practically all of the people in most exams in aircraft maintenance who took engineering at high school. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1122499 | 2010-07-27 01:03:00 | If just one person had entered *something* they would have $10,000 by default by being the only entrant. Yes, but I suspect that this being a book competition, there would be an expectation that a print run had been completed and for the book to be available to the public in bookstores. There is a fairly large amount of $$ outlay to get a print run done, which is usually dependent on getting agreement by a publisher from a bookstore that they will stock it. All of this will depend on whether or not there will be money to be made - not by the entrant to the competition, but by the publisher, printer/binder, advertising agency, transport company and bookstore. A hell of a lot of 'if's' for a book in maori!!!! |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1122500 | 2010-07-27 01:11:00 | If just one person had entered *something* they would have $10,000 by default by being the only entrant. I am writing as we speak.......... |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1122501 | 2010-07-27 12:57:00 | Delighted to see you have taken the challenge Cicero. Put me down for a leather bound edition with gold leaf embrossed print. |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 1122502 | 2010-07-27 21:48:00 | I am writing as we speak.......... To stay true to the matter at hand, I trust you are 'writing' your book on the back of some flax using only a sharp stone, Cicero, while wearing a grass skirt (how do I get that image out of my head!?!?!?)... :D |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1122503 | 2010-07-27 21:55:00 | To stay true to the matter at hand, I trust you are 'writing' your book on the back of some flax using only a sharp stone, Cicero, while wearing a grass skirt (how do I get that image out of my head!?!?!?)... :D I may have to dob you for kinkiness,I take it that is a banishable offence! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1122504 | 2010-07-27 22:33:00 | Imagine the outrage if they had a Caucasian writers book prize. I think you'll find the prize was for literature written in Maori, not written by a Maori. Subtle difference So Cicero can enter. |
Whenu (9358) | ||
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