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#2923750 7-Jun-2022 21:53

RunningMan:

I'm curious as to why you think Māori couldn't invent an administrative organisation?

I never said they couldn't invent an administrative organisation. That's what they had, a chief and the rest in various roles.

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#2923751 7-Jun-2022 21:59

cshwone:

frankv:

In England, there's a huge difference between how someone from Cornwall speaks and someone from Newcastle and someone from Glasgow.

One of the reasons for that maybe that Glasgow isn't in England :)

Was that why I was asked today where in Britain I came from. The person asking not knowing British dialects and wouldn't know a Scots accent from anywhere else. However I have lived all my life in New Zealand.

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#2923764 7-Jun-2022 23:01

RollyShed:
RunningMan:That fluffy weird concept is called Māori and it's an official language of New Zealand. Like many things it's only weird because you don't know much about it, but I'm sure as you learn more it'll seem less weird.

Except it is very limited. I know no one who speaks it. There are no books on the subjects that I'm interested in, in Maori. Computers are in English or computer languages and there is enough work keeping up with them. Aircraft, the language is English. Doing publishing, proofing reading and writing, English. All marine terminology, internationally is English or Inuit. Technology, the main item is English.

So basically I have enough to do to keep up with items in English without trying to figure what might be an equivalent Maori word for something they never had and could never invent.

Given that the purpose of language is to communicate, writing in a language few can speak is diametrically opposed to the fundamental purpose. It’s akin to London government departments randomly inserting Welsh.

By all means produce things fully in both languages, but this pidgeon Te Renglish is more irritating than useful, most people I speak to seem to think.

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#2923768 7-Jun-2022 23:08

floydbloke:
Whereas Frisian of course is very much its own language (it has its own Google Translate) and I wouldn't have two shows of understanding a word they say.

How different is Achterhoeks (which you learn if you listen to the likes of Normaal)? That sounds more like low German than Dutch to me.

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#2923769 7-Jun-2022 23:10

Let's go back to the topic.

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#2923770 7-Jun-2022 23:10

Paul1977:
I was watching The Chase the other night, and when asked what the contestant would do with the money if he won he said he'd like to open an "LBGT friendly café".

This is a whiskey tango foxtrot to me because isn't that pretty much just, you know, a café?

Sadly, there are many places in the US where it's not just a cafe. Was the contestant from one of the red/southern states?

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#2923771 7-Jun-2022 23:15

cshwone:
One of the reasons for that maybe that Glasgow isn't in England :)

As clearly explained by Malcolm Tucker (NSFW).

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#2923820 8-Jun-2022 08:48

The Scots don't speak English, it sounds more like Klingon to me. ;-)

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#2923822 8-Jun-2022 08:50

Tinkerisk:
The Scots don't speak English, it sounds more like Klingon to me. ;-)

Maybe it is:

Set phasers tae malky!

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#2923835 8-Jun-2022 09:34

Tinkerisk:

The Scots don't speak English, it sounds more like Klingon to me. ;-)

Even after living here for 17 years or so I still meet Kiwis I cannot understand and have to ask to repeat things!

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#2923844 8-Jun-2022 09:52

Geektastic:

Even after living here for 17 years or so I still meet Kiwis I cannot understand and have to ask to repeat things!

Are you Klingon? Then it would be understandable for you to ask ;-)

No, I was just joking ... I have no negative reservations because of a person's mother tongue or dialect - not even about the famous bavarian ‚Oachkatzerlschwoaf.‘ ;-)

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#2923891 8-Jun-2022 11:42

Tinkerisk:

Geektastic:

Even after living here for 17 years or so I still meet Kiwis I cannot understand and have to ask to repeat things!

Are you Klingon? Then it would be understandable for you to ask ;-)

No, I was just joking ... I have no negative reservations because of a person's mother tongue or dialect - not even about the famous bavarian ‚Oachkatzerlschwoaf.‘ ;-)

Since you ask, Romulan.

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#2923964 8-Jun-2022 14:13

What about the claim that a person is using Te Reo. I always use Te Reo as The Language is English. Some people speak A Reo (a language) which is Maori.

Meaning they don't know what "te reo" means. It means "the language" and as we know "The Language" is English, almost used by as many as use Chinese. In some cases it is the only language allowed to be used, for example aviation.

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#2923968 8-Jun-2022 14:20

@RollyShed:

What about the claim that a person is using Te Reo. I always use Te Reo as The Language is English. Some people speak A Reo (a language) which is Maori.

Meaning they don't know what "te reo" means. It means "the language" and as we know "The Language" is English, almost used by as many as use Chinese. In some cases it is the only language allowed to be used, for example aviation.

This is completely off topic and I already asked to move on folks.

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#2923970 8-Jun-2022 14:21

Spending $65 million on a bunch of Robots that don't work has got to be up there with being today's W..T..F

The CE had already bailed, but this sort of decision must see the entire board go under the bus....

"Ports of Auckland has announced it will scrap the automation of the Fergusson Container Terminal, leaving $65 million of automation software and guidance system useless."

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/65m-write-off-port-of-auckland-dumps-container-terminal-automation-project/YPWYDI5G5RTRHMJWK2ZBR564WI/

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