Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 24, 2023 13:43:25 GMT 12
Ele Ludemann: LANGUAGE DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT.
The outgoing government didn’t appear to see the irony in its Plain Language Act :
. . . The purpose of this Act is to improve the effectiveness and accountability of public service agencies and Crown agents, and to improve the accessibility of certain documents that they make available to the public, by providing for those documents to use language that is—
(a) appropriate to the intended audience; and
(b) clear, concise, and well organised. . .
The irony is that while requiring all that, many of its MPs and the public service, were also misusing Māori in a way that was not appropriate to intended audiences and in a way that was not clear, concise or well organised.
English has absorbed words of many other languages, including – at least in New Zealand – Māori. But it has done it over time, by a process of osmosis so that words from other languages are gradually and unconsciously assimilated into our own vocabularies.
That is how language works. It doesn’t work by imposition and it doesn’t work by inserting words and phrases of a second language into sentences primarily in another which is what Labour, the public service and far too many in the media have been doing......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/ele-ludemann-language-doesnt-work-like.html
The outgoing government didn’t appear to see the irony in its Plain Language Act :
. . . The purpose of this Act is to improve the effectiveness and accountability of public service agencies and Crown agents, and to improve the accessibility of certain documents that they make available to the public, by providing for those documents to use language that is—
(a) appropriate to the intended audience; and
(b) clear, concise, and well organised. . .
The irony is that while requiring all that, many of its MPs and the public service, were also misusing Māori in a way that was not appropriate to intended audiences and in a way that was not clear, concise or well organised.
English has absorbed words of many other languages, including – at least in New Zealand – Māori. But it has done it over time, by a process of osmosis so that words from other languages are gradually and unconsciously assimilated into our own vocabularies.
That is how language works. It doesn’t work by imposition and it doesn’t work by inserting words and phrases of a second language into sentences primarily in another which is what Labour, the public service and far too many in the media have been doing......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/11/ele-ludemann-language-doesnt-work-like.html