No they didn't. We got regional devolution. Read more. It's good for you.Originally Posted by Banditbandit
Irritant
No they didn't. We got regional devolution. Read more. It's good for you.
It's only when you take the piss out of a partially shaved wookie with an overactive 'me' gene and stapled on piss flaps that it becomes a problem.
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He was talking about it this morning on RNZ...prolly call it the "don't forget to vote" party...See old Hone thinks there momentum for another poitical party
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I thought they did - bitch and moan about those with less than themselves, lie, cheat, and look after number one first, then a few of their mates, whilst not giving a shit about the general populace and making grandious laws and statements with little or no facts to back them up......
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BULLSHITI will say that it is not up to Pākehā to comment on the mana of a Māori individual ... but I know you'll draw your own conclusions .. those conclusions just might not be the same as ours ...
Just because Maori actually have a word for something doesnt give them exclusive rights to the concept. Maori and non Maori alike may or may not accord him "mana" as they see it. Why do Maori speak english spattered with maori words for such things and then claim exclusive rights? Is it a relevance deprivation insecurity?
Normally, if speaking one language and using words from another is reserved for when the former does not have a word for what you're talking about. Newsflash- english has quite a few words for mana.
He doesn't do himself many favours to engender "mana" from many segments of the population. Fuck him, he's the biggest racist in this country and does his own cause more harm than good.
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where do you get a keyboard with a little line over the a
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ALT + 0257 should do it, but the editor must support UNICODE.
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It's called a macron and it indicates a long vowel. You can set it up yourself as all the macrons are in Word under symbols - just set up hot keys for them.
These are important in te reo Māori as they change the meaning of words - "matau" means a fish hook, "mātau" means "us" - so it's important to use macrons when writing in our reo.
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I was not commenting on the use of the word, tho' I doubt that we agree on its meaning ... asn the concept is not the same from different cultures.
I do not hold Hone in high regard as a MP ... never have ...
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Irritant
Is this a recent thing? I'm under the impression that the maori didn't have a written language until the white man came.
It's only when you take the piss out of a partially shaved wookie with an overactive 'me' gene and stapled on piss flaps that it becomes a problem.
Anarchic Wild Child
You are right - and in a sense it is a recent thing - in that until "recently" we didn't have a written language ...
However, it's an old linguistic sign that indicates a long vowel - not a "new" thing at alll - used in many languages, but I'm no linguist.
Go here for the font of all knowledge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrons
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Sorry but I think it is one of those snob things. Look I'm doing it right and you are wrong things. In English we are taught that the vowels have different sounds and don't use macrons for "bow". However the way we pronounce bow and the context of the sentence tells you if it is long or short vowel, if it is a thing to shot arrows with or to bend at the waist (nearly got the wrong waste). The computers don't easily type the macrons and people will mis-use them with out education so why not just teach people the Maori vowels?
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Before the Acts of Union in 1707 that was instituted by England at the point of the gun Scotland had an independent parliament called the Three Estates. The Scottish wanted to retain a "devolved" parliament but the English "negotiators" refused to comply.
It was Harold Wilson's Kilbrandon Commission, in response to the rise in Scottish nationalism (which some may call Gaelic Radicalism) and the furore over "England stealing Scotland's Oil" that recommended the establishment of a Scottish Assembly.
I heard a lot about this growing up, given that's where my family are from.
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