The noes are 112. The motion is lost.
There's 112 that will never ever get my vote. It has successfully exposed the tribalists in our Parliament willing to cause separation and division in New Zealand. Of particular note are the scum in the National Party who aided and abetted this loss.
Thank you David Seymour for bringing this bill to the table. The underlying cause will forever fester and hopefully decide the next election.
A guest writer seemingly endorses usage of pidgin Maori in English communications here.
A good read with arguments either way. One of the best I have ever seen.
The status quo for many:
Use of Maori to non-Maori is so rarely as innocent as you state. Expect push back because of this
Why on earth would someone start a letter Kia Ora Cassandra, write me a page of English and end it with Nga mihi if he wasn’t virtue signalling
while I am quite aware of Nga mihi nui, Kia ora, etc I won’t be joining you in sprinkling them into my language
and:
Use one language or the other.
If it’s fully in moari, I won’t bother with it.
If it’s in manglish, I stop reading at the first moari word, and that includes “a tee rower”.
Summarising (wholly endorsed) via Cassandra:
And I end with the same reply: you’re advocating NZ pijin. No!
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