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...spread of meanings: "Aroha, for example, covers more than love. It also has the sense of affection, warmth and goodwill" - so people will talk of a crowd on a cold night being warmed by aroha. But word choice is also a matter of politics, says Victoria University linguist Winifred Bauer. "Sometimes it's not that there isn't an English word, but people will choose to use the Maori word." If they are Maori, "they're expressing their Maoriness. They're saying, Yes, I am talking English, but I am a Maori. This is also done by Pakeha who wish...
...Kiwis have 11 different ways of saying "Maori," from the hackle-raising "Mayo-ree" to the correct "Mow-rri." "New Zealanders have a long way to go in terms of pronunciation," says Piripi. "Really, 200 years of occupation without achieving five simple vowel sounds is not so good." Linguist Bauer notes that Maori has adopted large numbers of English words, from motuka (car) to poti (vote), but "English speakers don't complain that Maori people say karaka instead of clock." The reason: "English is not threatened, and Maori...
...electricity it chose hiko, or unseen power; computer is rorohiko, electric brain). Most Maori speakers, though, learned English as their first language. And when their Maori vocabulary comes up short, they reach for an English word. Young speakers increasingly structure Maori sentences as if they were English, says Bauer. "Swapping words is one thing," says Toni Waho, a pioneering te reo teacher. "The sinister thing is when grammar changes, because grammar reflects cultural values and ways of thinking. We have to be very vigilant in ensuring the grammatical structure of Maori isn't taken over by English...
Given this remarkable mix of acceptance and skepticism, it's not so surprising, then, that Henry Bauer, the editor of S.S.E.'s journal and a dean emeritus at Virginia Tech, wrote the definitive treatise debunking Immanuel Velikovsky, whose best-selling books in the 1950s argued that Old Testament miracles were triggered by close encounters with Venus. But it's also not surprising that that same Henry Bauer has published papers arguing that scientists have ignored powerful evidence that the Loch Ness Monster is real...
BOBBY FLAY'S GRILLING FOR LIFE ($22). The guru of the grill turns his attention to healthy cooking, with analysis by nutritionist Joy Bauer...