Topic: Renaming NZ Islands

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8498639/North-and-South-Islands-face-name-debate

What crap what monkeys would want to rename them to unpronouncable crap.

i vote for both naming schemes to be concurrent if anything.
Last Edit: April 03, 2013, 09:09:06 pm by Xsannz

Posted: April 02, 2013, 03:38:21 pm

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Should renamed them to Auckland Island and Christchurch Island.

Reply #1 Posted: April 02, 2013, 03:49:37 pm

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what makes a name "official" anyway..

Reply #2 Posted: April 02, 2013, 04:27:44 pm
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Should renamed them to Auckland Island and Christchurch Island.

No no.

Auckland Island and Queenstown Island.

Reply #3 Posted: April 02, 2013, 04:32:14 pm

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Jaffas & Sheep Shaggers.

Reply #4 Posted: April 02, 2013, 04:36:18 pm



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Mainlaind  and Bludger Island....

Reply #5 Posted: April 02, 2013, 04:42:48 pm

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North South South Korea and South South South Korea or Not aussie 1 and Not aussie 2

Reply #6 Posted: April 02, 2013, 04:55:37 pm
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Still better than the name of this thread.

Reply #7 Posted: April 03, 2013, 02:48:25 pm

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They should be named 'Spacemonkey is here' and 'Spacemonkey was here'

Reply #8 Posted: April 03, 2013, 02:50:58 pm

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The discovery followed a proposal to the New Zealand Geographic Board that  South Island be changed to its original Maori name, board chairman Don Grant said.

Nope, Nope, Nope. North and South or I'm out.

Reply #9 Posted: April 03, 2013, 03:13:14 pm
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Nope, Nope, Nope. North and South or I'm out.

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Reply #10 Posted: April 03, 2013, 03:26:39 pm

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Xnznaus?

Reply #11 Posted: April 03, 2013, 03:41:28 pm
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SILA will have to be rebranded TWLA !!

This is cultural fundamentalism in its purest form.....

Reply #12 Posted: April 03, 2013, 03:42:19 pm

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Xnznaus?

sounding good.

maybe xsawnznaus

Reply #13 Posted: April 03, 2013, 03:48:06 pm

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SILA will have to be rebranded TWLA !!

This is cultural fundamentalism in its purest form.....

TWLA?  = Totally Willing Loves Anal?  is Craig a member?

Reply #14 Posted: April 03, 2013, 03:49:29 pm

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8502953/How-about-the-Yeah-and-Nah-islands

only one is i actually like is Mostly cows Mostly Sheep.  (that being the people not the animals)

Reply #15 Posted: April 03, 2013, 03:50:46 pm

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8498639/North-and-South-Islands-face-name-debate

What crap what monkeys would want to rename them to unpronouncable crap.


Interesting choice of words there fella, the news readers didn't seem to have a problem pronouncing them

Reply #16 Posted: April 03, 2013, 06:46:27 pm

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That's what people would have said about using the Term Aotearoa a couple of decades ago

Reply #17 Posted: April 03, 2013, 06:51:08 pm

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That's what people would have said about using the term Aotearoa a couple of decades ago.
I'm cool with them using the Maori terms, but this is an issue i'm sure old white NZ males will love to get on their high horses about so won't happen.
God it's not like we would be changing something particularly historic or named after something important.
Last Edit: April 03, 2013, 07:01:39 pm by Bell

Reply #18 Posted: April 03, 2013, 06:53:53 pm

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Interesting choice of words there fella, the news readers didn't seem to have a problem pronouncing them

well to me they are difficult to pronounce..

i dont mind the idea,, its just why pander to a specific group.

Reply #19 Posted: April 03, 2013, 07:00:32 pm

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its just why pander to a specific group.

They were here first, they named it first.
It shows some fucking history and culture.

Te Ika-a-Māui
It is translated as "the fish of Maui", from the story of Māui, who hauled up the North Island on his waka (canoe). The name te Ika nui a Māui, "The great fish of Maui", is also used.

North Island
An Island that is to the north of something else.

Reply #20 Posted: April 03, 2013, 07:04:55 pm

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well to me they are difficult to pronounce..

i dont mind the idea,, its just why pander to a specific group.

Maori have problems pronouncing North Island, they say Norf.

Asians have problems pronouncing North and South.
 
So maybe we should rename to Asian names so that we are not pandering to a specific group of Pakeha.

Reply #21 Posted: April 03, 2013, 07:30:52 pm

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I like the South Island name  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Wai_Pounamu

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eminds me of Ponani  http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ponani which it seems the OP is a bit of one

Reply #22 Posted: April 03, 2013, 07:41:48 pm

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Nope, Nope, Nope. North and South or I'm out.


See ya later then.

Reply #23 Posted: April 03, 2013, 07:53:23 pm
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Should renamed them to Auckland Island and Christchurch Island.

Auckland Island and White supremacist, xenophobic, bash guys for no reason, bad Island.

FTFY.

Reply #24 Posted: April 03, 2013, 08:11:25 pm