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| Thread ID: 150369 | 2021-12-24 06:12:00 | Who made that one up? | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1483093 | 2021-12-24 06:12:00 | Have you noticed TV1 putting up the greeting "Meri Kirihimete!"? It's supposed to be maori for Merry Christmas.:illogical Next thing they will be telling us that the maoris celebrated Christmas! The maoris had not even heard the Christian message until the colonists arrived. It’s just another made up maori word like Aotearoa. Next thing you know they’ll have a maori word for Easter as well. Where will it all end? :waughh: |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1483094 | 2021-12-24 07:09:00 | All words are made up at some point, why does it bother you so much? | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1483095 | 2021-12-24 08:20:00 | How come you call it Christmas? Is that just some transliteration into your yokel language - why don't you use the proper way? en.wikipedia.org |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1483096 | 2021-12-24 09:16:00 | I could forgive them if there was some genuine Maori language involved. But Misspelling English words and pretending that it is te reo is just tommyrot. A pathetic attempt at political correctness. Bah Humbug! | Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 1483097 | 2021-12-24 09:23:00 | I could forgive them if there was some genuine Maori language involved. But Misspelling English words and pretending that it is te reo is just tommyrot. A pathetic attempt at political correctness. Bah Humbug! You mean the same way it has been misspelled and claimed as English? |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1483098 | 2021-12-24 09:29:00 | As soon as we are all speaking Maori, you will no longer have to worry about this Bull ****! | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1483099 | 2021-12-24 18:01:00 | As soon as we are all speaking Maori, you will no longer have to worry about this Bull ****! As your Avatar once said, "Tin a cocoa, Tin a cocoa, Car tyre". :) :) Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1483100 | 2021-12-24 18:35:00 | Why not use the real name of Winter Solstice, since it was a rape and pillage of the old pre christian winter festival. Back then they celebrated stuff all the time, but under the nailed fool its all you cannot do this, that or the other how boring. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1483101 | 2021-12-24 19:42:00 | I could forgive them if there was some genuine Maori language involved. ! So maori isn't allowed new words, it was meant to stay static forever but English is allowed? Why are you even speaking this then? You should be saying Yfel lîesan ðâs ð¯ær samhwyle pro Un−wemme cwide êadiglic Hâligdæg |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1483102 | 2021-12-24 20:12:00 | And if that's too old for you, go back to the 1800s and say: aerodrome acceleratorq airliner dashboard fuselage garage hangar limousine motorway plane speedometer double-glazing, dust bowl, motel. Chunnel, pulsar, and stagflation infotainment. Dog-tag Laser scuba automation television laptop Tivo Google (as a verb) Bromance Internet Selfie Podcast Paywall Unfollow Blockchain Emoji The Oxford English Dictionary records about 185,000 new words, and new meanings of old words, that came into the English language between 1900 and 1999. Why aren't you complaining about that? |
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