Wednesday, 12 April 2023

"...Modern Te Reo is unintelligible to them."


"Modern Māori language is colloquially referred to as ‘fruit salad Māori’. My elders do not understand this new form it has taken; modern Te Reo is unintelligible to them."
~ Dianne Landy, co-founder of Mana Wāhine Kōrero, from her post 'Mana Wāhine Kōrero Response to (now deleted) Stuff article Vs. Sean Plunket'

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