Prime Minister John Key said he thinks a month of Maori language would dilute the intensity a week brings.ANDY JACKSON / FAIRFAX NZ The Maori Language Commission has taken a veiled swing at the ...

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Like bathwater, windows, ice, spit. Full transparency. The language is plain and unsentimental. The sounds are the same wherever possible. I was trying to see myself, all the way through.

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