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Skriven 2011-07-15 15:34:55 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 20845 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
Ärende: What are we talking about now?
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15 Jul 11 21:27, Stewart Arnett wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>>>>>> In zone 1, the most common language used is English.
 RW>>>>>> I suspect that in zone 3, that is also true.
 SA>>>>> Not this week as it is "Te wiki o te reo Maori." ;)
 RW>>>> Repeat that in English please.
 SA>>> Can't you google it?
 RW>> I have yet to believe it's real...

 SA> If you had used google you would have found it is real.

If you had told me what it meant in the first place, we wouldn't have to
waste the bandspace to get this far.

 SA>>> Okay I give in, Te wiki -- This week -- o -- is
 SA>>> -- te reo -- language -- Maori --Maori. "This week is Maori
 SA>>> language week." In new Zealand and we are supposed to wander
 SA>>> round talking to each other in Te reo Maori.  A Stone age
 SA>>> language of some 50,000 word limitation.

 RW>> I see, kinda like what Drummond does on a full time basis.

 SA> The difference is David knows what a wheel is, the Maori never even
 SA> discovered one.

Niether did the North American natives, yet they too know what they are.


                R\%/itt


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