Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 27, 2021 8:40:39 GMT 12
NO, NEW ZEALAND IS NOT AOTEAROA – Amy Brooke
“Create your own pepeha to celebrate te wiki o te reo movement.”
Given that estimates range between about 4% and 11 % of New Zealanders who can speak what is today claimed as te reo — the Maori language — such obscure phraseology and the constant substitution of largely reinvented, supposedly Maori words to replace English is not only unintelligent: it is basically discourteous. It is also inauthentic.
In what has become a form of cultural bullying, today’s te reo is now heavily promoted by our far-left government. Equally unintelligible greetings, and long, introductory sentences are apparently now compulsory for all government speakers and spoken media to use when introducing programmes. Public employees, including doctors and hospital staff, are expected to send greetings and sign off, not in English, but in today’s quasi-Maori. Even the Television One weather presenter recently gabbled a lengthy introduction — or perhaps even a summary (who would know?) –– delivering an unintelligible weather forecast later reverting to what may, or may not, have been a translation. It was an egregious display of virtue-signalling for Maori language week......
www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/no-new-zealand-is-not-aotearoa/
“Create your own pepeha to celebrate te wiki o te reo movement.”
Given that estimates range between about 4% and 11 % of New Zealanders who can speak what is today claimed as te reo — the Maori language — such obscure phraseology and the constant substitution of largely reinvented, supposedly Maori words to replace English is not only unintelligent: it is basically discourteous. It is also inauthentic.
In what has become a form of cultural bullying, today’s te reo is now heavily promoted by our far-left government. Equally unintelligible greetings, and long, introductory sentences are apparently now compulsory for all government speakers and spoken media to use when introducing programmes. Public employees, including doctors and hospital staff, are expected to send greetings and sign off, not in English, but in today’s quasi-Maori. Even the Television One weather presenter recently gabbled a lengthy introduction — or perhaps even a summary (who would know?) –– delivering an unintelligible weather forecast later reverting to what may, or may not, have been a translation. It was an egregious display of virtue-signalling for Maori language week......
www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/no-new-zealand-is-not-aotearoa/