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Street name chosen by Iwi 'too long'
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One of the things I really like about te reo is the way we are absorbing it and enriching our personal vocabs (note the shortening of 'vocabularies') in the process, painlessly and without effort. Our human languages are all, with very few exceptions, full of imported words and phrases, mangled appropriations and adopted thievery that colours and expands our communication skills.

It is part of being human to want to express ourselves, to want to understand others, and to do that we use words and sounds as they suit us. The problem arises though when we start thinking some sounds made into words are 'bad', or of less value than others. That some languages are more important than others. The reality is they are all just sounds human beings use to communicate. They cannot be good, bad, better or worse, they are just noise.

It is the humans using them that make them anything more. Or less.


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Street name chosen by Iwi 'too long' - by Lilith7 - 26-08-2023, 03:36 PM
RE: Street name chosen by Iwi 'too long' - by Oh_hunnihunni - 28-08-2023, 09:30 AM

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