Ahiahi mārie. Today on The Spinoff, Stewart Sowman-Lund attends an Invercargill mayoral debate featuring everybody but the incumbent Tim Shadbolt, Alice Webb-Liddall visits a netball tournament where te reo Māori takes centre court and Toby Manhire interviews long-serving National MP turned Nelson mayoral hopeful Nick Smith. But first: Charlotte Muru-Lanning says that when it comes to pronouncing te reo, it’s OK to be a tryhard.
“I regularly find myself in conversations with people who would probably consider themselves theoretically supportive of te reo Māori revitalisation, where Taupō is pronounced as if it rhymes with elbow, or Waikato as if it rhymes with eyeshadow. A hard, anglophone ‘r’ repetitively conquers the softly rolled ‘r’ that should be in my last name. Macrons go unnoticed and the word kūmara somehow loses a whole syllable. Within these moments, I get the sense that mispronunciation of te reo Māori has been so normalised that it’s almost viewed as apolitical – as if aiming for accurate pronunciation would be to make some sort of political statement. The thing is, making no effort makes a statement too.”
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The case for being a tryhard
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