<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Interesting. Regarding his statement "</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">People argued that making it compulsory would turn children off, but that theory had never been tested" - Prof. Reedy obviously hasn't spoken to anyone regarding compulsory Irish.</font></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Keola</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></span><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">On 2010 ʻOk. 26, at 10:27, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Hui looks at saving language<br><br>Laurel Stowell | 27th October 2010<br><br>Maori language ought to be compulsory in New Zealand schools, says<br>Professor Tamati Reedy. That's his personal opinion. And those<br>attending a series of hui on the future of the language are saying<br>people ought to value it at least as highly as the country's native<br>birds and plants.<br><br>Access full article below:<br></font><a href="http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/local/news/hui-looks-at-saving-language/3927758/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/local/news/hui-looks-at-saving-language/3927758/</font></a></span></blockquote></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">========================================================================</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Keola Donaghy </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani <a href="mailto:keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu">keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu</a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">University of Hawai'i at Hilo <a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/">http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam." (Irish Gaelic saying)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">A country without its language is a country without its soul.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">========================================================================</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">
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