Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 12, 2023 10:33:57 GMT 12
Peter Williams: WINSTON HITS THE SPOT – AGAIN.
Winston Peters just won himself at least a couple more percentage points in the election race after his speech in Nelson yesterday. The ultimate politician was prepared to say out loud what thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands have been saying - or at least thinking - for fifty years. Māori are not indigenous.
He is, by the traditional definition of the word, absolutely correct. Indigenous comes from the Latin word indigena, which means a local, native or aboriginal inhabitant.
The Oxford English Dictionary, to me the Holy Grail for word definitions, says that indigenous means “born or originating in a particular place.” The Cambridge Dictionary says indigenous “refers to, or is relating to, the people who originally lived in a place, rather than people who moved there from somewhere else.”
We all know that Maori did not originate in New Zealand. That is indisputable.
But some dictionary writers over the years have changed the meaning of the word.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/peter-williams-winston-hits-spot-again.html
Winston Peters just won himself at least a couple more percentage points in the election race after his speech in Nelson yesterday. The ultimate politician was prepared to say out loud what thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands have been saying - or at least thinking - for fifty years. Māori are not indigenous.
He is, by the traditional definition of the word, absolutely correct. Indigenous comes from the Latin word indigena, which means a local, native or aboriginal inhabitant.
The Oxford English Dictionary, to me the Holy Grail for word definitions, says that indigenous means “born or originating in a particular place.” The Cambridge Dictionary says indigenous “refers to, or is relating to, the people who originally lived in a place, rather than people who moved there from somewhere else.”
We all know that Maori did not originate in New Zealand. That is indisputable.
But some dictionary writers over the years have changed the meaning of the word.....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/peter-williams-winston-hits-spot-again.html