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Thursday, 11 March 2021, 2:54 pm Twenty-seven new Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows and Ngā Ahurei Honore a Te Apārangi Honorary Fellows have been elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for their distinction in research and advancement of science, technology or the humanities. They are exceptional leaders in their communities and their areas of research and scholarship. Being made a Fellow is an honour that recognises distinction in research, scholarship or the advancement...

App for learning Moriori released to help revive endangered native language Newshub 2/03/2021 Lana Andelane © Video - RNZ; Image - File Watch: A group of Moriori members and Crown representatives at the Treaty settlement ceremony. An app providing an introduction to ta rē Moriori - the native language of the Moriori people - has been released in a bid to revive the endangered language. The Ta Rē Moriori Language App was released on Tuesday by the Hokotehi Moriori Trust, a...

Top leadership in Washington hardly valued clear, concise or correct communication over the last few years. Presidential musings routinely veered into indecipherability. “I call it the black hole,” said Annetta Cheek, a former bureaucrat in her mid-70s who helped launch the government’s plain language movement. But the deep state of Plain Language persevered. A loose network of jargon critics, crusaders for clarity and gatekeepers of grammar, they regularly invoke the little-known Plain W...

Jargon critics, crusaders for clarity and gatekeepers of grammar nudge a government predisposed to over-complication and incomprehensibility toward making sense. They stubbornly drag the bureaucracy along, using methods that are generally subtle and gentle but occasionally blunt.

Published on: Sunday, January 03, 2021 By: Emeritus Prof Shad Saleem Faruqi Text Size: Malaysian grads: Most unable to land jobs due to lacking proficiency in English. MALAYSIAN Employers Federation executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan believes poor command of the English language among many Bumiputra graduates is the main reason why they find it hard to get jobs in the private sector, which accounts for 90pc of employment in the country. Our political and educational leaders must take no...

Many countries already employ bilingual or even multilingual road signs including Wales, Ireland, Finland and Switzerland.

Bilingual road signs in Aotearoa New Zealand would tell us where we are as a nation

Road signs help us to get where we are and to where we’re going, that much is obvious. But, at another level, road signs show us where we are and where we’re heading as a people and a culture. So the language of Aotearoa New Zealand’s road signs is important — not least because they are also expressions of the exercise of state power in our everyday lives. The size, shape and text of road signs are all governed by law. Despite te reo Māori’s status as an official language in New Zea...