Te Windows

[Posh Tourer :P]

One was going to make a flippant comment about writing in one's native tongue but one paused and thought better of it. One also wondered as to whether Maori has an apostrophe to denote possession or whether there was a naff Americanism for arse (whero)...

that is ar'se to you....
and no, Maori does not use s as possessive or plural. They pluralise the predicate (I think that is the right term), and use the form 'The xyz of zyx' to indicate the possessive, with no shorter form (as far as I'm aware).

Not quite paradise though, as the naff americanism for whero would be 'wee-roh', much the same as the naff americanism for Tauranga is 'Tiran-gah

[The_Dover]

Cool, now I can balance the books for my tinnie house and make flyers for my next hikoi in maori.

Te Reo Office.....WTF? Te Reo Dole Office.........

[Lias]

Worst fucking idea EVER.

Given that wolf and I do IT support for a maori organisation we are viewing this with intense trepidation. Only 1 (non technical) manager in our 30+ person IT department is fluent in Te Reo, trying to support it would be a total fucking nightmare. We have a hard enough time trying to discourage staff from using keyboard macron software.

*wanders off to polish his rifle and mutter about the evil lusers*

[Badcat]

Yeah but it might be a brilliant anti-virus strategy.
It might reduce the ability of some spotty geek in Bulgaria from writing a nasty to get at it if all the commands are in Maori?

dude.
windows IS a virus.

K

[Wolf]

A mate of mine bought a laptop through The Loot, she took me around to the person's place to check out the laptop before she parted with her hard-earned readies. We get there and the Windows 9x is in Chinese. So I figure we're going to have to reinstall Windows. In order to do this of course, I have to have a valid Product Code (I had a disc at home with the appropriate version of Windoze on it but it was licensed to me and I was not prepared to put my unlock key into someone else's machine. So I navigated my way through Chinese Windoze on this machine - into regedit, and found my way to where the ID key is hidden (fortunately the registry keys were labelled in English) and wrote down the Prouduct Code.

The Chinese chick my friend was buying the machine from was most impressed that I had been able to find my way around Windows despite all the icons being labelled in Chinese. Guess I'm just too familiar with the Windows environment.

This is what LiasTZ and I will have to do if machines start being switched over to Maori Windas...

I'm capable of spouting my whakawhanaungatanga and performing both karakia and whakautu, simple greetings etc, but I doubt I'm at the point of comprehending "Technical Maori" beyond "te Rorohiko" (which mean's I'll be able to translate the "Taku Rorohiko" icon but I already know what the "My Computer" icon looks like in any case.