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Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:18 pm**

Kei te reo Maori wiki.
Kei te tuhituhi ki Maori.
He rongo au tatou ahei tuhituhi ki Maori ki etahi ta matou mera.

Not sure how good it is as I am still learning but it's worth a try.
See if you can understand it. Anyway I challenge all of you to put a least one Maori word in each of your posts in acknowledgment to Maori language week.

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:34 pm**

kia ora

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:58 pm**

car tower

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:25 pm**

WOW I should take maori at school

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:32 pm**

whoa! Maybe a tad OTT there donkman?

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:35 pm**

Good to see you are as good at it as me

ive been watching 1 news for this week ,normally 3 but its really getting to me ,even my nana just changes the channel / turns the sound down ...

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:12 pm**

Well here goes my attempt at speaking the language.

Haere Mai
Haere Mai
Haere Mai
Tena Koto
Tena Koto
Katua

and some very good advice see if ya can decypher this little message me and mike will know this message extremely well as we read every day when we open them.

Ka Mate Koe i Te Kai Hikreti

SQ350

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:57 am**

squirrel350 wrote:
QUOTE(squirrel350 @ Jul 26 2007, 11:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well here goes my attempt at speaking the language.

Haere Mai
Haere Mai
Haere Mai
Tena Koto
Tena Koto
Katua

and some very good advice see if ya can decypher this little message me and mike will know this message extremely well as we read every day when we open them.

Ka Mate Koe i Te Kai Hikreti

SQ350

Ka Mate = It is death (as in from the AB's Haka)
Koe = You
i = from
Te = The
Kai = food (also eat)
Hikareti = Cigarette

So it literally translates as "It is death to you from the food (or 'eating') cigarettes"

or more succinctly "Smoking Kills"

Kei te pehea koutou?

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:11 pm**

hahahaha thanks for that mate was just remembering back to all the welcomings I had been to.

SQ350

Posted: **Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:04 am**

Are you a Maori Kelburn??

Posted: **Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:55 am**

I got a couple of cool words

KAKA
and
Upoko Poaka

Posted: **Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:55 pm**

Are you a Maori Kelburn??

ahh dear, see I was right, you don't need a poll to turn a thread into utter cr@p.

James

Posted: **Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:58 pm**

Whats your problem Jimmy? I see no offense intended in the question.

Posted: **Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:38 pm**

Whats your problem Jimmy? I see no offense intended in the question.

Its not really the question, more that there has already been several posts deleted from this thread (not my own btw) and that aside here we are discusing maori language week on a flight simulator forum? And no, I don't support Maori language week.

James

Posted: **Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:01 pm**

Its perfectly fine to have this thread, as this is the off-topic forum.

Alex

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