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OFMD te Reo Māori

@ofmdtereomaori

Random screenshots from the gay pirate TV show Our Flag Means Death, translated into te reo Māori. Formerly on Twitter. Female(ish), Pākehā, middle aged, pan.

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THIS IS SO COOL?

I can't read old english but the second chapter is both a translation and notes on the translation/writing choices which i HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEYRE SO COOL

THE MEANINGS AND CHOICES IN TRANSLATION ARE GETTING TO ME

Also so many of them have these awesome explanations behind them and then there's this:

"The Old English word for “doctor”, læce, literally means “leech”, which he would hate being called so, so much that I immediately had to use it for him."

LIKE YEAH THATLL DO IT LMAO

GO CHECK IT OUT ITS INTERESTING AF

Ko te reo o ōku tupuna

The beauty of National Parks are reminders of what the entire earth could look like if humans weren’t around .

Casual reminder that many landscapes in US national parks are the result of centuries of land management by indigenous people and the Parks system has interfered with indigenous management practices and led to some degredation of the ecosystems

Not so casual reminder that a great many of those parks were Indigenous homes. Not just managed, not just cared for.

Not so casual reminder that the oft quoted grandfather of the National Park System Theodore Roosevelt was an unabashed racist who took 86 million acres of Indigenous Tribal land to expand the National parks.

Not so casual reminder that conflating lack of human life to lack of human interference is hugely problematic and completely disregards the eugenics hidden within most ecofascist ideology.

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When Shenandoah National Park was created, the NPS systematically destroyed all the structures of the people who had been living there. Their goal was to erase any evidence the land had been occupied.

This also happened in Aotearoa. The policy was basically "now we've taken most of your land and burnt all the forest that was on it, we're going to make it illegal to cut down trees or catch birds on what you have left, because the remaining native bush looks pretty. Also we're still going to criticise you for not using your land even though we've literally made a law against you doing that. Oh, and we might also take some more land off you, just to be sure."

The Waitangi Tribunal's reports on Te Urewera, Whanganui, and Te Kāhui Maunga have more detail.

Actualy at one point it becomes your responsibility

Especially with how usamericans often use the “well we aren’t taught about it” as a quick and easy excuse to escape having to learn about other countries

No one else gets to opt out of knowing about America, unfortunately

To expand on this a bit, America has never stopped being pissed off at us about this. America has spent the last 38 years alternately threatening and trying to bribe us to let their nuclear-equipped vessels into our ports

(none of our governments have given in b/c 85% of the population is hard opposed, so it would be political suicide to actually agree to this)

To my (unreliable) recollection that's where the phrase 'can neither confirm nor deny X' comes from

Some but not all US ships were nuclear. Aotearoa said we won't allow nuclear in our waters but we'll allow ones that aren't.

US took the position of a flat universal will neither confirm or deny if any particular vessel is nuclear.

So aotearoa said OK no US vessels allowed at all then :)

And then everyone was Big Mad but it was one of the important peices in the puzzle of the international push for reduction of nuclear nonsense

There are various memorials abott the place here for various de-nuclearisation projects and all the work that went into building a safer future, it's easy to render invisible all the work that was done but it's worth remembering (source: some plaques on a tree at the Peace Garden in the Wellington Botanic Garden)

Okay, but David Lange's Oxford Union debate speech about nuclear weapons, its so important and powerful. The whole thing is on youtube, but here are the highlights

Fun fact: Aotearoa was evenly split on the anti-nuclear thing until Americans started making threats, at which point pretty much the entire country went "what? no, fuck you" and now even the suggestion that a party might be thinking about reversing the anti-nuclear policy is electoral poison.

Fundraiser for Tua o te Pae Te reo Māori AAC

Giving nonspeaking Māori a voice

Tua o te Pae is a kaupapa that aims to see all non-speaking tāngata whaikaha Māori (disabled Māori) be given the opportunity to communicate in Te Reo Māori through the creation of a synthetic voice that is compatible with speech generating devices. Current available technology does not enable this community of people to speak in Te Reo Māori and because of this, they experience exclusion from participating in Te Ao Māori. We want to change that!

Voice Keeper, a text-to-speech company, wants to support us with our kaupapa. They want to respect the indigenous culture and don’t want any ownership over the voice once developed. The process will cost around $800K NZD. Once created, the voice will be free for ALL who wish to have Te Reo on their device.

Awhinatia mai rā, awhinatia atu mātou ki ngā tāngata e hiahia ana ki tēnei - Help us to help people who need this!

About the trust

TalkLink Trust are a nationwide service who work with people of all ages, who have a disability and have difficulties with speech, written communication, learning or controlling their environment.

Use of funds

Constructing a synthesized voice using Voice Keeper, a text-to-speech company who respects Tikanga Māori and will not have ownership over the voice. This costs around $800k NZD and the voice will then be free for all to use Te Reo on their device.

A little while back, I commissioned the wonderful and extremely talented @nunsongici to draw one of my favorite scenes from Chiaroscuro. My original hope was to share this when I published the epilogue, but the epilogue has been delayed by something of a chain of chaos in my real life.

Today marks the one year anniversary of publishing the fic, however, and that's something that means a whole lot to me, so I'm sharing this with all of you to celebrate.

Please go show the rest of @nunsongici's incredible art some love, and if you haven't read Chiaroscuro and are looking for fun pirate shenanigans, I'm proud of this fic and would love to share it with you!

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so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

this is the memorial at the vancouver art gallery. 215+ pairs of children’s shoes (as well as stuffed toys and flowers) cover the steps…

Going for vibe and rhyme rather than literal meaning here.

"Ka kōrero mātou katoa" means "we all talk"*. "He waka eke noa" is a whakataukī (proverb) which is usually translated as "we're all in this together", in the sense of everyone coming together for the good of all. It uses the metaphor of a waka or traditional canoe, but "waka" can mean any form of transport including a ship.

I headcanon He Waka Eke Noa as the official whakataukī of the Revenge, partly because it fits the crew and the show really well, but also because it keeps getting used disingenuously in government and corporate settings, in that "we care about you but we're not going to fix the problems you're raising" kind of way. So it fits the worst parts of Stede's management style as well as the best parts.

*Normally Stede would say "Ka kōrero tātou katoa" because he'd be talking to the crew and so would use the "we" that means "me and all of you". But in this scene he's explaining it to the British so he uses "mātou" - me and them but not you.

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When people ask me why they should pay a human translator instead of using google translate I show them this picture:

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as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

It really boils down to three simple things:

  1. Consent. Is the culture open to sharing this thing? (& don’t cheat by finding one person who consents while most of the culture disagrees.)
  2. Context. If a culture is open to sharing a thing but it is a thing of great religious significance, take the time to learn what is a respectful way to treat the thing. Probably don’t use it as random decoration or sexualize it unless that’s what it’s for. 
  3. Credit. Give credit and if possible, buy from the original creators so the money goes where the credit should be.

This is really useful to me personally because I’ve definitely caught myself losing sight of what cultural appropriation actually is, and why it matters, so thank you, and everybody else pay attention too

"Ko" is a cool little word which basically means "the next bit is the focus of the sentence". So in the first sentence "tērā" (that) comes after "ko" because Ed is emphasising that that (person) is Paihaupango (Blackbeard), not him. Then in the second sentence, "Stede" comes after "ko" because Ed's emphasising that he's Stede, so he's not Blackbeard. It's a distinction we usually don't think about in English because the sentence structure is the same either way. Te reo Māori sentence structures are pretty flexible, so you can say "Ko Blackbeard ahau" or "Ko au a Blackbeard" depending on whether you want to say "I'm Blackbeard (and he's not)" or "I'm Blackbeard (not some random dude)".

(Ahau and au both mean me/I, with no grammatical difference - you just use whichever sounds better.)

I was going to go with "Matua", which sometimes gets used for "Mr", but it's usually an affectionate way to address people older than the speaker so it doesn't really work here, even sarcastically.* Whereas putting "Te" (the) in front of someone's name is a really old-school, kind of over the top, way to show respect. And "Feeney" transliterates really easily.

"He aha tō kata" is either a kīwaha (idiom) or one of those situations where common phrases have weird grammar.

*Also "matua" literally translates as uncle or father, and this didn't seem like the place for an a "ooh daddy" callback.

Taika Waititi has made Oscars history.

At the 92nd Academy Awards, the “Jojo Rabbit” writer-director-actor took the prize for adapted screenplay. This makes Waititi the first person of Māori descent to win an Oscar. He was the first ever indigenous person to be nominated in the category. (x)