Thread: Meri Kirihimete!

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I had a quiet chuckle to myself on this...

To those of you who have absolutely no idea of what Roger's talking about, it's a New Zealand Maori te reo language for the Politically Correct Brigade.
When Captain James Cook arrived in NZ the Maori were a 'stone age' people ie they had not yet discovered how to use metals.
The Europeans (primarily from the UK, but also many Danish, Dalmatians, and other European countries...much like America,) colonised NZ in the 1800s, and English became the primary language.
After a couple of centuries passed the Maori (there is no plural for the proper noun, 1 Maori, ten Maori,) decided that they should have their own language back. Like the Welsh language in the UK and the Gaelic in Ireland.
Trouble was they all found that their stone age (or iron age for the Welsh and Irish,) languages had no words for many of the words that are in common usage today.
Stainless steel, glass, glasses, (the kind you wear,) computer, braille, tv, camera, car, truck, bus ,train...and so on ad infinitum.
So they made them up.
And Kirihimete is a made up word for Christmas.

I can't be bothered with it.

I must be an even bigger curmudgeon than Uncle Bob.