Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 3, 2022 13:12:55 GMT 12
LIKE ENGINES, LANGUAGE HAS TO RUN PROPERLY
D H writes > New Zealanders are easily convinced of stupid things.
Silly buggers - it will never work the way they think - will always be divisive - but language is to the population like the engine is to a car.
It has to run properly - do the job and get you to a reliable place - and people have expectations that it will work at a suitable level and be easy - and have words for everything and that includes obscure jokes and puns.
People won't buy into it unless it has evolved over time into a useful language that can express a very wide range of things - and of course it hasn't - and is being made up on the fly by extremists.
English is the most successful language on the planet - all Maori learn to speak it from birth - so Maori language cannot ever succeed alongside that.
Back in the day they had 'Esperanto" and that never worked either. Maori Language is the world's most expensive and divisive pipe dream. Eventually our so called 'academics' and political extremists will figure it out..
In the mean time - I want to learn French. That's an evolved language - and evolving naturally - like Italian - and German etc. And Chinese! - Chinese is spoken around me every day and I hear it all the time - and it is an effective language - and one of the biggest populations on the planet use it to succeed every day - and make billions in the process - but I only know two Chinese words.
C'mon Kiwis - the nation is broke - inflation is out of control - we are governed by trailer trash. - - Isn't it time we woke up from the nightmare - and got real?
D H writes > New Zealanders are easily convinced of stupid things.
Silly buggers - it will never work the way they think - will always be divisive - but language is to the population like the engine is to a car.
It has to run properly - do the job and get you to a reliable place - and people have expectations that it will work at a suitable level and be easy - and have words for everything and that includes obscure jokes and puns.
People won't buy into it unless it has evolved over time into a useful language that can express a very wide range of things - and of course it hasn't - and is being made up on the fly by extremists.
English is the most successful language on the planet - all Maori learn to speak it from birth - so Maori language cannot ever succeed alongside that.
Back in the day they had 'Esperanto" and that never worked either. Maori Language is the world's most expensive and divisive pipe dream. Eventually our so called 'academics' and political extremists will figure it out..
In the mean time - I want to learn French. That's an evolved language - and evolving naturally - like Italian - and German etc. And Chinese! - Chinese is spoken around me every day and I hear it all the time - and it is an effective language - and one of the biggest populations on the planet use it to succeed every day - and make billions in the process - but I only know two Chinese words.
C'mon Kiwis - the nation is broke - inflation is out of control - we are governed by trailer trash. - - Isn't it time we woke up from the nightmare - and got real?