Are you a 'Kiwi' or a New Zealander?

[sidecar bob]

Zealand

(a while I was curious about if there was a New Zealand, where the original Zealand was - cause at that point, I'd never heard of it!)

When I was a kid dad often referred to Zealand, pronounced zayland when telling stories of Holland, where he was born.
I never made the connection until much later.

[Stylo]

When I was a kid dad often referred to Zealand, pronounced zayland when telling stories of Holland, where he was born.
I never made the connection until much later.

I heard from some time ago that the explorer, Tasman, referred to it in his travels as 'the new land from from the sea' or 'New Sea land'

Tell me I'm wrong ..... I probably am ...

Need some clarification here

[sidecar bob]

I heard from some time ago that the explorer, Tasman, referred to it in his travels as 'the new land from from the sea' or 'New Sea land'

Tell me I'm wrong ..... I probably am ...

Need some clarification here

That would have made it Nieuw zee land, plausible I guess.
The Dutch location is called Zeeland, not Zealand, so I spelt it wrong earlier, not sure how we arrived at the zea version of the spelling.

[Grumph]

That would have made it Nieuw zee land, plausible I guess.
The Dutch location is called Zeeland, not Zealand, so I spelt it wrong earlier, not sure how we arrived at the zea version of the spelling.

Just the poms version of it - if the frogs had got the flag up an hour or two earlier, it would probably still be Seeland...

[Voltaire]

I think he popped over to Aussie and gave it an equally imaginative name of New Holland, wasn't New York called New Amsterdam....they sure liked Newing things.

So boils down to do we like being called after a fat chook like bird that can't fly or a place named after where some Dutch Explorer probably had a shag once.

[nodrog:Me]

The really important question is, why the fuck is there a Maori name for computer?

The natives weren't exactly going down to Hori Normans and ticking up laptops back in the day. And considering the computer was invented well after New Zealand was colonised, surely the Maori word for computer should be computer.

Or can you just make up a native language as you feel like it?

[Oakie]

The really important question is, why the fuck is there a Maori name for computer?

Te tapitapi?

[F5 Dave]

Ahh ya kafellapop.

OK the making up bit seems convenient. Or grassygrassy myshikavitss.

[Stylo]

Ahh ya kafellapop.

OK the making up bit seems convenient. Or grassygrassy myshikavitss.

Exactly .......

[Voltaire]

The really important question is, why the fuck is there a Maori name for computer?

The natives weren't exactly going down to Hori Normans and ticking up laptops back in the day. And considering the computer was invented well after New Zealand was colonised, surely the Maori word for computer should be computer.

Or can you just make up a native language as you feel like it?

Why are there English words for stuff that happened before English was bodged together from a mix of Froggie, kraut and Viking?

[TheDemonLord]

The really important question is, why the fuck is there a Maori name for computer?

The natives weren't exactly going down to Hori Normans and ticking up laptops back in the day. And considering the computer was invented well after New Zealand was colonised, surely the Maori word for computer should be computer.

Or can you just make up a native language as you feel like it?

I dunno - it worked for the Klingons....

[nodrog:Me]

Why are there English words for stuff that happened before English was bodged together from a mix of Froggie, kraut and Viking?

I think the answer has something to do with that before word you used.

[pete376403]

The really important question is, why the fuck is there a Maori name for computer?

The natives weren't exactly going down to Hori Normans and ticking up laptops back in the day. And considering the computer was invented well after New Zealand was colonised, surely the Maori word for computer should be computer.

Or can you just make up a native language as you feel like it?

They can - and we non-maori have to be really careful about pronouncing these recently made-up words correctly lest we give grievous insult to their culture.

[Tazz]

The really important question is, why the fuck is there a Maori name for computer?

What about the French name for computer, or German, or Japanese, hell was it even an Engrish word/invention to start with?

That's some pretty fucked up logic man

[Tazz]

They can - and we non-maori have to be really careful about pronouncing these recently made-up words correctly lest we give grievous insult to their culture.

Do you speak more than one language?