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The worst bit about it is that they will keep place and people names that are in Te Reo, so the argument about confusion just doesn't hold any water
My son who is on the spectrum and has really struggled to read at all, skips over most Maori words, unfamiliar names or Maori place names.
He also has a problem differentiating between other words that can also be a name or a place name, eg "Mrs Green said X" or "James walked down Brown street".
He interprets them literally and ends up wondering why the street was brown or why was the lady green.
The specific book that they referenced on the news last night "At the Marae" was an absolute nightmare for us to work through every time it was in his book bag.
and I struggled all through school with reading and writing even in English (with dyslexia), that doesn't mean that we should relegate Te Reo to an even more of a second class language.
i just want to say fuck French root words in American English
every shit word I cant spell without memory is fucking Latin -> French -> English
lets start removing those