Posts by HORansome
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I'll "+1" or "Like" Gio's comment. The police are in a position of power with respect to the public and the need to exercise a duty of care (even with respect to people who have engaged in criminal activity) is paramount, no matter the psychological bruising they might have suffered.
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And a lot of what we're seeing isn't whinging per se but people arguing, using evidence, that the RWC isn't necessarily something we should be celebrating.
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I, for one, am sick of being told I should be excited by the RWC.
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Indeed, I think there's a good argument to say some library should buy it (because libraries are repositories).
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I'm sure the Minister, like the Prime Minister, can find a legal expert who will disagree with the other legal experts.
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Someone bet me to Noel Fielding's brilliant interpretation of "Wuthering Heights." I've soon this clip to numerous contemporary dancers and choreographers and I've yet to see anyone in the profession think it is less that stellar.
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Bart Janssen,
So can we please stop doing something that doesn't work and try doing something different. It's pretty much the definition of stupidity to keep repeating the same actions year after year and expecting a different outcome.
Like Neo-liberalism, the response to that is to say "Yeah, we know it doesn't work in practise but sticking to the theory is more important."
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Hard News: Doing battle alone, in reply to Russell Brown,
If people aren't watching "Perigo!" on Stratos can I recommend you start? Not because it's a good show (Perigo without a leash is an enemy of reason, not it's defender) but because we're seeing the candid opinions of people like Brash and Deborah Coddington being expressed on that show. Brash is adamant, in the first interview he had with Perigo, that climate change is not occurring and that the ETS is a bad idea.
I should point out that think Coddington aquits herself very well on "Perigo!" but that might be because anyone sitting opposite Lindsay Perigo looks rational in comparison.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Well, as I joked on Twitter, Brash's criticisms of John Key compromising on campaign issues whilst in the reality of governing with support parties really does seem to indicate (if Don is being consistent) that ACT is expecting no policy concessions should they be part of the next government.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to linger,
I know how peer review works, thank you very much; I was talking about the difference between a work being descriptive of a state of affairs vs. prescriptive. You may have noted that I'm asserting that we need to spell te reo words according to the rules of te reo and not of English; I am very much taking a prescriptive position here and I don't think English language intuitions have much bearing on how we should spell te reo words.
“This word ‘Maori’” as you put it clearly is a word of English, not of te reo, because it does not follow the rules of te reo. That is the reality that we have to work with.
If that's your argument for claiming that "Maori" is an English word, then it's not much of an argument; it's also possible that "Maori" is a word in te reo which is spelt incorrectly by people with English 1st language intuitions. Simply saying "The word doesn't obey the rule..." doesn't make the word suddenly English; I can see your argument holding water say, in Australia, where te reo is not a language of the indigenous people and thus "Maori" might be a loanword which has adopted Australian English orthography, but here the Māori are an indigenous people who still speak and write in the language.
Now, you could point to the corpus of te reo and say "But look, no to inconsistent use of macrons!" and you'd be right (a friend compiled one of the largest corpuses of written te reo for a thesis she wrote) but that doesn't tell us much; debate about the macron or using "aa" has raged for a while and now we have system and, by the gods, we should not just be using it but pulling people up (like, say, Russell) when they don't.