Hilary Smith

Applied linguist and community development worker from Aotearoa New Zealand.

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"It has become a trend to use gendered curses, largely thanks to the rising popularity of standup shows where comics often seem to feel that using such abuse is proportional to how funny they can be."
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"It has become a trend to use gendered curses, largely thanks to the rising popularity of standup shows where comics often seem to feel that using such abuse is proportional to how funny they can be."
https://t.co/GGs5fn7Ieb

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You know more te reo than you think, language expert says https://t.co/MHL8e2HIea

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Our paper "The impacts of a culturally relevant book flood on early literacy in Papua New Guinea" is now out in the International Journal of Educational Development.
#PapuaNewGuinea
#Reading
#literacy
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Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate Chris Tse's poem for NZ Chinese Language Week, which focuses on Mandarin:

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Some interesting changes since the last survey in 2018. https://t.co/xZ8iZDLkEu

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Gamilaraay Word of the Week: yarraaman, horse
Also yarraman, yaraaman and yirraamaan - with similar words in other languages in Eastern Australia.
They may come from yira, which means teeth in many Aboriginal languages, including Gamilaraay (yiya in Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaay).

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@wordspinster Torture of girls and women for witchcraft is far from over in some countries https://t.co/HKqLrqyR95

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And what about peer pressure?

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New Zealanders returning home after years overseas have been astounded by the resurgence of te reo Māori in mainstream life. Take a closer look at https://t.co/apjnC1QgbH

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How to read this sculpture which I've passed many times on Lambton Quay in Wellington? The explanation of Invisible City by Anton Parsons, 2003,a collaborative project with blind poet Peter Beaton, says it has 'a defiant muteness':
https://t.co/9h6lMTcVFQ

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So gayaa, happy & proud, to be part of the team - Winanga-Li Aboriginal Child & Centre has been awarded HESTA's Outstanding Organisation of the year for our programs including Yaama Gamilaraay! #HESTAAwards

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Kiwi English as the last task in a set of COVID activities chalked onto the footpath near the Manawatū River.

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On this Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children's Day, we are proud to announce the release of our OECD working paper: "A strong start for every Indigenous child": https://t.co/scE4MxmczW

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In Aotearoa it is the time of Matariki, when the Matariki/Pleiades/Seven Sisters/Subaru/Miyaymiyaay star cluster reappears. Interesting parallels between one of the Māori stories: https://t.co/5u2zeddHbt and one of the Miyaymiyaay stories: https://t.co/i6IjGDmIOZ

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Mānawatia a Matariki!
Greetings for Matariki, the Māori New Year, celebrating the reappearance in our skies of the star cluster also known as Pleiades, Subaru, the Seven Sisters and Miyaymiyaay (#gamilaraay).

Picture from
https://t.co/InFRqSpptk