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ENM Update

Monday November 1: Horizon's Regional Public Transport Plan review – a chance to have early input into the draft plan

The pre consultation meeting will be held at 2pm at Horizons Regional Council Boardroom, 11-14 Victoria Avenue , Palmerston North.

You can also comment by email on what you think should be in the draft plan. Now is the best time to offer your views. See the http://www.environmentnetwork.org.nz/11.html for more information


SPLIT PIN ENGINEERING SPONSORS PETER AT THE LONDON

Peter Cleave on guitar and vocals at the London on George Street Palmerston North- Fridays and Saturdays 6- 8.30pm. The London is one of New Zealand's best restaurants. Come and eat. The gig goes into its second month. It started with a show called Peter Cleave aqnd the British Invasion to go with the theme of the London. Beatles, Stones, Van Morrison and the like and it carries on from there.

Quote of the week
Gossip is a boat full of holes
Maori Unpacked continued
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The inceptive, ka

Ka is actually known as an inceptive, it works for any tense.

Ka pai te kai

could mean the food will be/was/is good.

It all depends on the context.

We need to do some detective work before we unpack the context!

So if we are unpacking into Time Boxes we have to be sure to think of ka, the any time, any tense word as relating to several boxes, The Past Box, The Future Box and he Present Box.

Inanahi, ka haere au ki Papakura.
Yesterday I went to Papakura

I teenei raa ka haere au ki Manurewa
Today I go to Manurewa.

Aapoopoo ka haere au ki Tuakau.
Tomorrow I will go to Tuakau.

Gee there are are boxes in all directions, no playing couch rugby or we'll wreck the arrangement!

Mind you we could just put ka in a Mind Map right in the middle of the verbs...

If we were to make a mobile for ka it could be made to face in all directions, facing to the past, the present and to the future...

Perhaps in a drawer at the top of the set of drawers in the Verbal Sentence Desk.



He kupu hou- some new words

nei- here, near the speaker

naa- there, near the person spoken to

raa- over there, away from the person spoken to and the speaker

teenei- this, near the speaker

teenaa- that, near the person spoken to

teeraa-that over there away from the person spoken to and the speaker

eenei- these near the speaker

eenaa- those, near the person spoken to

eeraa- those over there away from the person spoken to and the speaker

pai- good

kai- food

haere- go, come

mahi- work

a- of

tuupuna- ancestors, note that in the singular it is tupuna

he- a, some

i- connectives

poouri- sad

poouritanga- sadness

Hei tauira- to be an example

aahua- form

aahuatanga- likeness

maatau- to know

maatauranga- knowledge

mahinga- doing, making

i- at

ki- at

kei- at

hei- at, future

waenganui- middle, centre

o- of

ruma- room

waho- outside

runga- on

tuu- stand

whakaaro- thought, to think

kupu- word

tuhi- write

anoo- again

peenei- like, like this, near the speaker

ia- when repeated means every as in ia, ra, ia ra- every day

hoohaa- bored, annoyed

ngahau- entertainment

kaahore- introducing a negatrive phrase or sentence, not, no

kau- at all

ka- any tense marker, inceptive