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Tui were known in the South as 'bully birds' (because they are & they do - I've watched one of my nesting pairs see off a lone magpie.)They're the first of the dawn chorus...rirerire come in later here - the blackbirds tend to be second, then thrushes.... kereru crash into my ranchsliders. You get the crash imprint and a few feathers floating away. And - I assume -a stunned kereru wobbling off.
Amazingly, not one has killed itself, in the 30year period the ranchsliders have been there-
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"In Italian, assonance applies to all sounds"-
in Maori, assonance isnt really used (except in proverbs possibly - 'Ka wiwi. ka wawa')-our language, like Italian, is very vowel-rich, but much less rich in constants, so vowel replication is kind of a given)
In English, it is a huge & richly useful field for humble poet people (like self.)
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That bugger Shakespere eh?
Routinely used the ass/arse pronunciation pun for a laugh-
NZ English is an obsession of mine - I now span 6 generations (and have written & recorded material that can go back 2 more.) The word hoards-the 'in' & 'out' usages- which are different from the cants & jargons and regional dialects-the wonderful ongoing interaction between Maori & English, plus the newer incomer languages...wow! Do we have a brew going here!
Nobody except yourself enforces either word useage or pronounciation. Understanding the words is all. But I will pull any of you up (as I expect such a couth crew to pull me up)when an error occurs.
To wit, Giovanni: assonance is actually the close repetition of similar vowel sounds (which differs from basic rhyme.)
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Dontchaluv human brains?
Idiot transposes"Throwimwayleg"
(good Pidgin)
for "Wayleggo"(good South Island shepherd speak to dogs...)
And yep Joe - great - indeed must - read-
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linger - heh! Love it.
Anyone here read his "Wayleggo"? (Think that's the title, temporarily unable to access library.) Contains one of the more disgusting scenes I've ever read (and no, I dont mean the the instructive sequence about
about how to disassemble a human body for back-transport) -
I've never cheated in an exam, ever.
But I have tiny spiky handwriting and I used to be able to write many many pages.. cruel & unusual treatment of innocent teachers I think.But we had come to an arrangement by the 4th form - as long as I came top in certain subjects (English, History, and General Science (&then Biology), those teachers would let me read (discreetly)in class...so I figure they must've actually read the exam papers...
I reliably came near the bottom for Maths & French and dropped Social studies in the 4th form (the teacher was a bully and an oik.)
It just never occurred to me to cheat: there was this order to exams, and why upset the apple cart?
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Wierd comment Tom.
ARTS is the only response I can make initially - and then I think a bit.
Libraries, like the Hocken. The Museum. Tourism with attractions found nowhere else in our archipelago (from the albatrossi to Larnach's); a certain investment by TRONT, and an excitingly good foodie scene.
And really really parochial citizens & visitors/cum/family like me- -
True wealth is owning your own time...
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-or keeps it.
A good suggestion Sacha: one can be born with mana & lose it through wrong action or inaction. One can grow the (*generally) family mana one was born with. One can be born with little or no mana, but gain it, and grow it through skills and actions-
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Wagging in CHCH, 1950s and '60s...
Didnt do any of it at primary school but the phys.ed teacher never knew I existed for the first year at Aranui High. Thereafter, as a pupil librarian, I had the burgeoning library as my bolthole for classes or events (cadet days for instance) that I loathed-