Monthly Archives: September 2015
A Dom Post
The rigorous efforts of the NZ media to correctly pronounce Maori is another feather in Aotearoa’s cap, hopefully it spurs on the rest of us to be proud of accurate Maori diction. Tau-ranga not Tower-wronga.
Poetically Modern
New words are created all the time. Words such as Blu-ray, retweeting, crokinole, and yooper. Maori sometimes need to react and create words to cater for these modern inventions using traditional concepts.
When in doubt, do what Sweden does
Seriously the Swedes get it right most of the time. Skoda, I hear you say? Well even the best fall short now and then but their approach to social governance and education has them top of the pile.
How are we doing, Aotearoa?
Kia ora y’all. Thought it was about time I put my two cents worth in again. Not that two cents gets you any where these days, it’s rounded up now, no? My ten cents worth then. (Not that the reader has any knowledge of my life abroad but) I kind of miss British pennies and […]
Te Reo on TV
It is probably still the most common form of media, soon to be outdated, but TV can help bend and shape opinions and Maori TV are making a ka pai effort with their channel.
What’s the i-point?
Perhaps being bilingual makes us smarter. Perhaps it would make us more attractive. But very soon the computer you use or the glasses you wear will instantly translate any audio in front of you. A life in subtitles.
Emoji is taking over the world (:-{)
Wait. Here I was thinking that my over reliance on emoji was immature. In reality I was ahead of my time. Some linguists are predicting that the future of language is not a global lingua, instead a communication that becomes more digital and visual, we will see more pictures in the place of written language.
Build yourself a better brain
Research indicates that bilingual speakers can outperform monolinguals–people who speak only one language–in certain mental abilities, such as editing out irrelevant information and focusing on important information. Now read that again while making a peanut butter sandwich.
Do you speak England?
Most New Zealanders won’t have a problem asking this, usually it’s to foreign drivers or lost tourists. However the ignominy of posing this question when you are the vacationer who can’t work out which train to take, or who crashed in to the Yoplait van whilst driving the wrong way on the Arc de Triomphe roundabout, is measured only by how big you want the hole in the ground to be when it swallows you.
Te Reo me this... 
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