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country meme
Jun. 13th, 2005 08:59 pmABOUT YOU
Full name: Tui Rachel something something
Date of Birth: 22 July 1987
Country of Birth: New Zealand Aotearoa
Town of Birth: Auckland by technicality, Wellington by heart
Current Town: Christchurch
Closest City:... Christchurch...
YOUR COUNTRY:
Name of your country: New Zealand Aotearoa
Post a picture of your country's flag:
Oops, I mean
Post the words to your anthem:
E ihoa atua
O nga iwi matoura
ata whakarongona
me aroha noa.
Kia hua ko te pai
kia tau to atawhai
manaakitia mai
Aotearoa
God of Nations, at thy feet
in the bonds of love we meet
Hear our voices we entreat
God defend our free land.
Guard Pacific's triple star
from the shafts of strife and war
Make her praises heard afar
God Defend New Zealand.
This is of course just the first verse. ;) But the second verse is kind of nice, it starts off "Men of every creed and race/gather here before Thy face... from dissension, envy, hate/and corruption guard our State" etc. The whole thing is here, although when it tells you that God Save the Queen is an anthem "of equal standing" with God Defend, they are lying through their teeth. I don't think I've ever sung God Save the Queen, although I know the tune a bit.
Post a sound file, if you can: Clicky- that link earlier also has a bunch of other ones, including Frankie Stevens and The Ministry of Internal Affairs Choir, I swear I am not making this up, and, and, Ainsley Allen. OMG remember her? "Reach out and TOUCH SOMEbody's HAND/ Make this world a BETter place/If you CAAAAaAAAAAN" *howls with laughter*
FOR COUNTRIES WITH A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE:
Name of your country's language (English \ Your language): English/Maori, properly te reo maori-- um obviously not my mother tongue unfortunately.
Name of your country in your language: aotearoa
Your Full Name: Uh... Tui something something something? I don't know how it would be transferred. Raekahera maybe? Could really be anything. Maori phonotactics don't allow any consonant clusters, and I think vowel clusters are only two per cluster; also it's a truly tiny alphabet of sounds, just, um, in phonetics /a/, /e/, /i/ /the backwards-c o sound/ and /u/ plus /h/ /k/ /m/ /n/ [ng- the palatal nasal] /p/ /r/ /t/ /w/ and /f/. So, er, I honestly have no idea.
Google your language's name, and post the first image returned:
maori and te reo maori
Finally, post a weird word \ sentence in your language: Heh. Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu. It's a place name- currently resting at the second-longest place name in the world, I believe- somewhere in the North Island. According to various translations, it means "The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed, and swallowed mountains, known as land eater, played his flute to his loved one."
Full name: Tui Rachel something something
Date of Birth: 22 July 1987
Country of Birth: New Zealand Aotearoa
Town of Birth: Auckland by technicality, Wellington by heart
Current Town: Christchurch
Closest City:... Christchurch...
YOUR COUNTRY:
Name of your country: New Zealand Aotearoa
Post a picture of your country's flag:
Oops, I meanPost the words to your anthem:
E ihoa atua
O nga iwi matoura
ata whakarongona
me aroha noa.
Kia hua ko te pai
kia tau to atawhai
manaakitia mai
Aotearoa
God of Nations, at thy feet
in the bonds of love we meet
Hear our voices we entreat
God defend our free land.
Guard Pacific's triple star
from the shafts of strife and war
Make her praises heard afar
God Defend New Zealand.
This is of course just the first verse. ;) But the second verse is kind of nice, it starts off "Men of every creed and race/gather here before Thy face... from dissension, envy, hate/and corruption guard our State" etc. The whole thing is here, although when it tells you that God Save the Queen is an anthem "of equal standing" with God Defend, they are lying through their teeth. I don't think I've ever sung God Save the Queen, although I know the tune a bit.
Post a sound file, if you can: Clicky- that link earlier also has a bunch of other ones, including Frankie Stevens and The Ministry of Internal Affairs Choir, I swear I am not making this up, and, and, Ainsley Allen. OMG remember her? "Reach out and TOUCH SOMEbody's HAND/ Make this world a BETter place/If you CAAAAaAAAAAN" *howls with laughter*
FOR COUNTRIES WITH A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE:
Name of your country's language (English \ Your language): English/Maori, properly te reo maori-- um obviously not my mother tongue unfortunately.
Name of your country in your language: aotearoa
Your Full Name: Uh... Tui something something something? I don't know how it would be transferred. Raekahera maybe? Could really be anything. Maori phonotactics don't allow any consonant clusters, and I think vowel clusters are only two per cluster; also it's a truly tiny alphabet of sounds, just, um, in phonetics /a/, /e/, /i/ /the backwards-c o sound/ and /u/ plus /h/ /k/ /m/ /n/ [ng- the palatal nasal] /p/ /r/ /t/ /w/ and /f/. So, er, I honestly have no idea.
Google your language's name, and post the first image returned:
maori and te reo maori
Finally, post a weird word \ sentence in your language: Heh. Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu. It's a place name- currently resting at the second-longest place name in the world, I believe- somewhere in the North Island. According to various translations, it means "The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed, and swallowed mountains, known as land eater, played his flute to his loved one."
