The Sovereign Verdict

The Sovereign Verdict

Fluency for the Few, Cost for the Many

Why You’re Paying for a Language Almost No One Uses - or Understands

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Tui Vaeau
Jun 16, 2025
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“We’re all forced to echo small words that make big noise and mean nothing to most of us.”

Indeed. Small words, big noise. That, in essence, is what te reo Māori has become in modern New Zealand: a disproportionately celebrated state hobby enforced by bureaucrats, virtue-signallers, and treaty-industrialists under the pretext of national identity. Te reo…

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