Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 13, 2017 16:20:28 GMT 12
VIDEO SLAMMING INCORRECT MAORI PRONUNCIATION VIEWED THOUSANDS OF TIMES ON FACEBOOK
People failing to pronounce Maori place names correctly "boggles the mind" of one Auckland woman, and presumably the thousands of people who viewed her online video about the issue.
Botha listed commonly mispronounced place names such as Tauranga, Rotorua, Matamata, and Taupo.
A Te Reo speaker would not take an English place name and try to pronounce it with Maori vowels, she said.
"So why are Pakeha allowed to get away with making the Maori vowels into English vowels?
"You should know how to pronounce the place names in this country. It is like the most basic level of respect to say them correctly.".....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11781272
People failing to pronounce Maori place names correctly "boggles the mind" of one Auckland woman, and presumably the thousands of people who viewed her online video about the issue.
Botha listed commonly mispronounced place names such as Tauranga, Rotorua, Matamata, and Taupo.
A Te Reo speaker would not take an English place name and try to pronounce it with Maori vowels, she said.
"So why are Pakeha allowed to get away with making the Maori vowels into English vowels?
"You should know how to pronounce the place names in this country. It is like the most basic level of respect to say them correctly.".....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11781272