NZFF

In the spirit of the week ....if I may .... Kia Kaha te Reo Maori, Kia Kaha Nga mihi.
I've been immersed in this all week at school and have learnt a lot ...to the point of having some conversations using 30%(or so)Te Reo, which isn't bad for an old grey guy. It is a very romantic language, maybe not that useful in 2020, but important to maintain in Aotearoa (New Zealand), as is any indigenous language of course.
Its quite odd, as you know my long-suffering partner of 20+ years is Japanese ....and our at-home conversations are a 50/50 mix of both English and Japanese (Ni Hon Go) But, because of the basic sounds that form Te Reo being so similar to Japanese, she can pick up and speak Te Reo very quickly.
So at the moment, I live in a Trilingual house

Well done! Nothing keeps dementia away like regular brain exercise. Most Europeans have at least one language in addition to their native one, but not the Brits or the Yanks. Interesting then, that England has produced Boris, and the USA , Trump. There's probly a Ph.D in that for someone.

Mike

I just thought that I'd point something out, Te Reo is in fact not Maori! They are 2 separate languages. The original Maori language is extinct, out of Maori there is just a few words left that are still used today.

Who'd a thunk... those dratted Colonials again

Our household has mastered 4 languages with varying degrees of success.
The European-rooted ones are not too hard, but Mandarin has no cultural connection whatsoever, and I see the lessons are not being completed any more. But through language comes cultural exposure, so not all wasted effort.

SUBS17 wrote:I just thought that I'd point something out, Te Reo is in fact not Maori! They are 2 separate languages. The original Maori language is extinct, out of Maori there is just a few words left that are still used today.

That is interesting. Would you have a credible reference for that SUBS?

cowpatz wrote:That is interesting. Would you have a credible reference for that SUBS?

A lot more polite than I had planned....

Agree ... provide " a credible reference" or leave it out mate.

Charl wrote:Who'd a thunk... those dratted Colonials again

Our household has mastered 4 languages with varying degrees of success.
The European-rooted ones are not too hard, but Mandarin has no cultural connection whatsoever, and I see the lessons are not being completed any more. But through language comes cultural exposure, so not all wasted effort.

Well done on 4 Charl.
Evidently, the hardest language to master is Portuguese...dont think I'll bother.

cowpatz wrote:

SUBS17 wrote:I just thought that I'd point something out, Te Reo is in fact not Maori! They are 2 separate languages. The original Maori language is extinct, out of Maori there is just a few words left that are still used today.

That is interesting. Would you have a credible reference for that SUBS?

They swapped dog for child, there is a lot of Maori words that was ruined by Te Reo. There is a group of people doing it, they are doing the same with Tagalog from Philippines who now speak primarily Pidgin English in New Zealand. Real Tagalog does not have a word of English in it. So I can tell you where Maori comes from, some words are from peoples names Kauri(named after a young girl called Carrie who always played under the Carrie Tree), Waka(named after a woman called Waka who carved the very first Waka with a rock), Hangi(named after a young boy called Hangi whose Father invented the Hangi, his Fathers name is Tane.)
So the original language was destroyed by a group of people who hated Maori and plotted against them, this included the DROWNRAPE HYPNOSIS at the GCSB Lab of people who actually spoke Maori and were forced to forget it. I know this as I was there when it took place, some were Maori Battalion Soldiers whom I recognized off TV that were protesting it. The GCSB were behind Te Reo.

I suppose one could call this the Entertainment Page of the NZFF!
But I declare: I could not replicate this line of prattle even after many tries at it.

I now need to know, direct from source: what chemical has been added to the mix?

Wow. Someone is off their meds

Here's something I've recommended to some non-NZ friends, it gives a simple, entertaining intro to NZ history. This is not the history I learnt at school back in the 60s, that's for sure. However this is easier to understand once you realise that Christchurch, were I grew up, was really only a hundred years old when I was born, that's just a handful of generations.
I'm currently rewatching the entire series, as this clarifies a lot of things for me. 14 short episodes, starting back long before NZ was a real place...

The Aotearoa History Show -- RNZ

Personally I prefer this version of NZ history

There are things about the Maori no one knows about, their history is not known by anyone in New Zealand. There was a lot of problems with the 1st group that arrived in New Zealand by Ship. The 1st group sailed from Hawaii, among them were people who had fare skin. The language English and Maori.

Naki wrote:Wow. Someone is off their meds

John Harper, convenient , typical of your kind. I take it you have yet to realize that you are UNSEATED?
In the future there will be no such thing as Meds, they'll be taken from New Zealand's tech tree and replaced with something better.

chopper_nut wrote:Personally I prefer this version of NZ history

Wow I missed quite a bit of that history!
Could you get away with this in 2020 I wonder?

Charl wrote:Could you get away with this in 2020 I wonder?

I'd like to see this remade today, although without Jeremy Wells. He lowers the tone of things which are already pretty low... Give it to Anika Moa and Alice Snedden, it'll be a very different show.

SUBS17 wrote:There are things about the Maori no one knows about, their history is not known by anyone in New Zealand. There was a lot of problems with the 1st group that arrived in New Zealand by Ship. The 1st group sailed from Hawaii, among them were people who had fare skin. The language English and Maori.

And where did you get that info from?????????

toprob wrote:

Charl wrote:Could you get away with this in 2020 I wonder?

I'd like to see this remade today, although without Jeremy Wells. He lowers the tone of things which are already pretty low... Give it to Anika Moa and Alice Snedden, it'll be a very different show.

I think Jeremy is what makes this show so funny. The way he speaks completely deadpan making it seem like a documentary and yet the subject matter is incredibly funny. He was the perfect choice for this.