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#3224823 30-Apr-2024 21:54

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/30/kiwi-bird-surprises-sawmill-workers-near-whangarei/

Kiwi bird surprises sawmill workers near Whangārei

A kiwi is a bird, we do not say penguin bird, parrot bird, emu bird, seagull bird.

This is just as stupid as putting "gate" after every scandal... so DON'T DO IT

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#3224826 30-Apr-2024 22:02

𝔇𝓸𝗲𝓼 𝚊𝙣𝐲𝙤𝑛𝚎 𝘦𝘭𝓼𝐞 𝓽𝕙𝔦𝚗𝕜 𝒽𝓪𝘃𝒾𝙣ℊ 𝔱𝗵𝒆 𝓈𝖎𝓽𝒆 𝙥𝕣𝒆𝕤𝓮𝚛𝓋𝓮 𝒻ℴ𝑛𝓽𝒔 𝒶𝒏𝒅 𝙛𝘰𝚛𝘮𝚊𝖙𝕥𝕚𝑛𝓰 𝘄𝔥𝒆𝘯 𝙘𝐮𝔱𝕥𝔦𝕟𝚐&𝐩𝚊𝖘𝑡𝘪𝗻𝔤 𝐭𝑒𝕩𝚝 𝙞𝕤 𝓪 𝒷𝗮𝘥 𝘁𝐡𝑖𝙣𝘨?

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#3224837 30-Apr-2024 23:40

Kiwi bird surprises sawmill workers near Whangārei

Makes sense for an international audience. Americans usually say Kiwi as the name of a fruit when they mean kiwifruit. The bird is less well known.

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#3224844 30-Apr-2024 23:43

gzt:
Kiwi bird surprises sawmill workers near Whangārei

Makes sense for an international audience. Americans usually say Kiwi as the name of a fruit when they mean kiwifruit. The bird is less well known.

Same in a lot of Europe, kiwi is a fruit, not a bird.

Except in southern Germany and Austria, where it's something you carry liquids around in.

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#3224846 30-Apr-2024 23:55

gzt:
Kiwi bird surprises sawmill workers near Whangārei

Makes sense for an international audience. Americans usually say Kiwi as the name of a fruit when they mean kiwifruit. The bird is less well known.

Can also mean a person.

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#3224872 1-May-2024 07:51

Apple has confirmed reports of a software glitch causing some iPhone alarms to fail to play a sound.

That is the entire article.

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#3224880 1-May-2024 08:28

gzt:
Kiwi bird surprises sawmill workers near Whangārei

Makes sense for an international audience. Americans usually say Kiwi as the name of a fruit when they mean kiwifruit. The bird is less well known.

NZ news paper for an NZ audience.

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#3224892 1-May-2024 09:34

NZ news paper for an NZ audience.

On this topic, it really annoys me when the NZ news websites take articles from places like the Washington Post and don't amend them at all for the local audience. For example, at the very least when the article refers to $1m, they could at the very least add either US in front of it, or insert the NZD amount in brackets. Also they don't amend the article in other ways to ensure that the NZ reader doesn't think that whatever is being written about isn't happening in NZ. You find out at the bottom that the article is sourced from overseas, which puts the preceding article in a different context to the one you placed it in when you read it.

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#3224912 1-May-2024 10:16

Or when they do it poorly/confusingly. A supposedly "international" news site republished an article from an Australian site recently and included a phrase like "the cost was $22 million ($14.2 million)". Neither of those amounts list which currency they're in, and you're apparently just supposed to guess.

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#3226129 3-May-2024 16:21

The Govt is changing how kids learn to read

The Government may change how they are taught, but they'll have a hard time changing how they learn.

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#3226506 4-May-2024 17:45

“The victim of an alleged attack in a Mount Maunganui mall was seen lying on the ground holding her stomach with “lots of blood around her” as onlookers rushed to help.

A 16-year-old girl was taken into custody shortly after the incident at Countdown supermarket inside Bayfair Shopping Centre yesterday afternoon.

Police say she has now been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and is due to appear in Tauranga District Court next week.”

It seems to me that the attack is a fact. Unless there’s a suggestion the victim did this to themselves?

The person charged could be referred to as “the alleged attacker” since it’s not proven that they were the attacker.

The attack itself is not alleged. Indeed, a person has been charged with carrying it out.

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#3226524 4-May-2024 19:54

sir1963:

NZ news paper for an NZ audience.

SheriffNZ:

On this topic, it really annoys me when the NZ news websites take articles from places like the Washington Post and don't amend them at all for the local audience. For example, at the very least when the article refers to $1m, they could at the very least add either US in front of it, or insert the NZD amount in brackets. Also they don't amend the article in other ways to ensure that the NZ reader doesn't think that whatever is being written about isn't happening in NZ. You find out at the bottom that the article is sourced from overseas, which puts the preceding article in a different context to the one you placed it in when you read it.

The primary driver behind that is cost cutting. Syndication of news is pretty big in the industry because not every media organisation can afford to have people on every place on Earth - and makes perfect sense, with limits - but when you cut too much from the local bureau, it means localisation and contextualisation is hurt and this post happens.

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#3226571 5-May-2024 02:54

This incredibly shallow (imo) review in NZH today of United Airlines’ business class AKL/SFO doesn’t even say what type of aircraft is flown.

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#3226618 5-May-2024 12:35

eracode:

This incredibly shallow (imo) review in NZH today of United Airlines’ business class AKL/SFO doesn’t even say what type of aircraft is flown.

I'd place a good bet it's a 787-9. United is definitely a Boeing shop, and the clue is that they mentioned the buttons that lighten or darken the window - that's a Dreamliner feature only if I recall correctly..

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#3226712 5-May-2024 18:00

Geography is not my strong point, but I am pretty sure Palmy is not located here...another "Stuff"up.

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The Govt is changing how kids learn to read The Government may change how they are taught, but they'll have a hard time changing how they learn.

The Govt is changing how kids learn to read

The Government may change how they are taught, but they'll have a hard time changing how they learn.