Posts by recordari
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Paul Campbell,
there are lots of online resources take your pick
The steps to adding the Māori keyboard (soon to have screenshots!):
- Click on the Apple in the top left and open System Preferences.
- Open Language & Text.
- Click on the Input Sources tab.
- Scroll down the input methods list under you find Maori. Tick this. At the bottom of the dialog tick "Show Input menu in menu bar".
- Now you have the input menu shown at the top right by your name. If you have multiple keyboards enabled - I only use the Māori keyboard - you may choose the Maori keyboard on the input menu.Yeah, easy. ;-/
On my iPhone it helpfully brings up multiple versions of each vowel to choose from. Anyway, I'm still not convinced I have to. When Russell does, I might.
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My second point is this; we’re talking here about the proper noun of the indigenous people of this place; we should spell it correctly.
So now what? A handful of knowledgeable persons are guilted into using the macron when writing ‘Māori’ (how do you even do that in a browser without copying and pasting?) and to chastising those who misuse it in other contexts in the hope that this will eventually become widely adopted by the clearly uneducated masses? Good luck with that.
I would be interested to know your views of the compounded form of isn’t it (i.e. innit) being added to the official scrabble dictionary. Personally I think we should be rioting in the streets.
Sorry about the snark, but I found myself feeling talked down to for my ignorant practices, and it made me a bit grumpy. I’m sure a nice cup of tea and a sit down will help. Carry on.
ETA: While coming to terms with my ignorance, I found this very helpful.
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Hard News: Asking for a Contribution, in reply to Rich Lock,
Ha, I initially played it myself, but thought in that context looked a bit odd, so settled for the reference.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to HORansome,
I should point out that my hardline on the macron comes from associating with linguists and teachers of Te Reo.
Alles klar!
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Hey Russell, I just got a “Donation Accepted” email from PayPal (via your account), so I hope this means you’re getting “paid in full”, so to speak? Was a bit concerned when you mentioned they were messing you around, as had heard other similar stories.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Russell Brown,
Bin Laden who? These macron wars are far more interesting? Can I have my macron with cheese?
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
a selection of '80s gig posters from Sydney *
I see Big Pig in there who were going to be my next choice.
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At the end of 60 minutes on Sunday Mike McRoberts actively endorsed Jon Stephenson as both a person and a journalist. Haven't been able to watch the 'Take No Prisoners' from the week before, as online stream having problems, but Jon Stephenson wrote a detailed response to Lt. Gen. Rhys Jones media statement which is on 60 Minutes website here.
Sorry if this was linked previously but I couldn't see it, and it seemed kind of relevant.
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Hard News: Asking for a Contribution, in reply to HORansome,
What is this "digital" you speak of?