“Create your own pepeha to celebrate te wiki o te reo movement.”
Given that estimates range between about 4% and 11 % of New Zealanders who can speak what is today claimed as te reo — the Maori language — such obscure phraseology and the constant substitution of largely reinvented, supposedly Maori words to replace English is not only unintelligent: it is basically discourteous.
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