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And yep Sofie - other lands have had a looonng time to work on their stuff- "little baby cheezus"? Rofflenui!
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We steal everything except our own kaimoana giovanni! Cheeses, lamb, beef, venison, breads & scones & pizza, all the currently available fruits, 99.99% of the vegetables - you name it, we've got it & are working on it -because none of them are natural/endemic/indigenous, and *all* of them can stand a little working on (ask the humble Chinese gooseberry...our wasabi (exported at prmium prices back to Japan)...various wines...)
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giovanni - Whitestone, Karikaas, Karitane, Gaalburn (for goat cheeses), and Kapiti...go explore!
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Thanks Graeme.
"Ta" (long 'a') has many many meanings, and some of them somewhat unfortunate (e.g."excrement".) It is a term of *address* used in some hapu/iwi, originally was translated as 'friend', but has come mean, occaisionally, the equivalent of "Sir" (Taa Tipene O'Regan - whom I'd *never* address as "Taa Tipene" because of all the other connotations...and because I know him as Tipene-)
"Kahuraki" does have those meanings of 'prized, precious, honourable, 'chieftaness'
(gak!)' but it also has other meanings - I associate it with a variety of pounemu...I will hold to the old forms of honourable address.
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Maori titles?
I've missed this bit - what *sort* of titles did Dean Knight suggest?
The only ones I know about are either age-earned (taua/kui, poua/koro. kaumatua) or you're born into them- ariki-nui/upoko-ariki, ariki or rakatira. Kai Tahu no longer have upoko-ariki because the line died out...Incidentally, I'm a committed republican (small r, because I think we can make our own workable version of a non-monarchical nation) and an anti-royalist.
By the way, the urban myth that you're never asked twice to accept 'an honour' is precisely that - I have been.
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BenWilson, if you read your post it actually says ""I cant see this will necessarily mean a shocking degradation of the art of writing. *I think it more likely that it will lead to a massive proliferation of it.*
That is, a massive proliferation of a ahocking degradation of the art of writing..
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BenWilson - those are far-out assumptions.
And *if* people want pap - well, they already do! Fine.Did you* really* mean
"I cant see that this will necessarily mean a shocking degradation of the art of writing. I think it more likely that it will lead to a massive proliferation of it." ?
Yes mate, I fear that too-
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Actually, saddlemakers *didnt* adapt - furniture-makers were already there, and the kind of upholstry they did, was way outside ofjust leather-
Stephen W- there was already a rather well-developed method of moving people around. It was called *boats.* And, there were very vibrant other methods of how other people*read* print - from drama groups to marae huika - "words" are not static or contained. and radio was also a big part of life-"reading" is both heard & recorded - which is why I am really interested in this truely intertwined matter-
Mark H -"copyright just means that no-one else can derive that income stream."
Yep. Cool. Good.
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I love trained brains - thanks you, Giovanni-te-clarifier-
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LOL Sof!