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Live or let die - Indigenous languages
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Posted by mhaze, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 11:55:53 AM
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mhaze,
I thought your said their language didn't have those words. Again - doing your usual Houdini. Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 12:48:43 PM
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"For Indigenous people, languages not only identify
their origin and membership of a community. They also carry the ethical values of their ancestors - the indigenous knowledge systems that make them one with the land and are crucial to their survival and to the hopes and aspirations of their youth." http://education.sa.gov.au/aboriginal-language-schools-offering-program# Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 1:07:47 PM
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Most information passed down verbally is subject to error, go through one or more generations and the error increases and instead of history we have folklore.
This also applies to the written word unless it is highly protected especially when it comes to translation. Nothing wrong with this, it is normal in the general scheme of things. Go back a thousand years or more and any oral history is in all probability way off the original telling. More guess and by golly than anything else. This is not confined to any one group but is pretty much the norm. Some politicians about the world appear to have reduced this to a matter of days. SD Posted by Shaggy Dog, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 2:39:32 PM
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Kei te mohio ki te korero Maori? If my wife says that to me I can understand what she is saying, but can't say it myself as its not spoken the same way as in English, loose translation "Can you speak Maori"
Posted by Paul1405, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 4:41:29 PM
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And who introduced the alcohol and welfare payments to
our First Nations people. Foxy, Don't you remember the wails of discrimination from the do-gooders & indigenous when the indigenous weren't permitted in Pubs ? Don't you remember when the indigenous & ignorant do-gooders wailed to no end about not enough welfare ? I know quite a number of indigenous who are actually in favour of dry communities but you do-gooders outnumber them yet when the wheels come off you start that same old discrimination bleating ! What is being done when a non-indigenous makes an idiot of himself when drunk ? They get locked up, no wails of discrimination there yet when an indigenous is in the same situation the silly & the stupid gang up on the Police ! Posted by Indyvidual, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 5:26:53 PM
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our First Nations people."
Do you mean the words or the products? :)