{"id":870,"date":"2008-07-24T00:40:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2008-07-24T00:40:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T00:40:52","slug":"those-stroppy-maoris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Those Stroppy Maoris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its Maori Language Week<\/a> again, and as always its a pleasure to see our second (of three) official language get some time in the sun. Dutiful shout-out to Maori TV, which continues to pump out great homespun programming on a ridiculously tiny budget, and has become both part of the furniture and a respected and appreciated channel even for us Pakeha. Nice one.
\nStudent mag Salient has run its traditional issue almost entirely in Maori (next week, like every year, will be a dozen letters abusing the editors for this) and it includes a little gem of an interview with the Maori Party’s bovver boy in Parliament, Hone Harawira<\/a>. (Quote sanitised so it isn’t blocked by the autofilters at some folks’ workplaces.)<\/p>\n

It’s different here. The reason why it’s different here is that there’s not an indigenous person in the world as stroppy as your f===in Maori. Dare anybody try and ignore us mate. You know what it’s like aye? Anybody blink badly in your… f===in pound them… when I was marching aye we just wouldn’t stand for it. I’ve been to Hawaii… they’re a lovely people the Hawaiian people. I see them accept things that we wouldn’t stand for over here aye. I say, ‘…F=== me! If anybody tried that to me at home I’d f===in drop him…’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love the New Zealand Parliament under proportional representation, I really do.
\nAlso this week, Google is adding Maori to its display languages, alongside such other native tongues as “Klingon” and “Elmer Fudd”. I just tried to change my preferences in honour of the week but it isn’t live yet. Neato.
\n(And maybe next year I’ll even try to learn some reo. That’d be good.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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