G'day G'day Folks,

The English translation of Te reo Maori is The language Maori or The Maori language. Te Reo Maori is a language rich in imagery. It evolved as a language for accurate recall as traditions and knowledge of ancestry were passed down orally.

As I stepped vigorously on the stepper I wondered what would happen if my first language was Nelperese instead of English. After all if a language was to be rich in imagery it would need to encourage transderivational searches building linkage and associations etc in the most economical way.

That would make it a whole lot easier to learn. In English there are adjectives, words that describe nouns.
In Maori, so I am told, there isn't.

Take for instance, Te reo Maori

It could be written Te reo = Maori.

How’s that for a complex equivalent.

The base words in Maori are active and stative verbs and nouns. There are other words, particles, that indicate the nature of the connection between these words.

OK, so what does this have to do with transderivational search, ie the search for personal meaning. Well one stroke of genius was to put the verbs before the nouns. To understand the sentence the listener has to process the verb first before he/she knows who does it to whom or how it is to be applied.

Ka pai te kuri

Ka indicates present tense.

pai indicates the state of being good.

te indicates nominalization.

kuri = dog.

Now doesn't that make for great nlp.

First you feel good. Then you think about the dog.

When you want a state, use a stative.

Some aspects of nlp would be a doddle in Maori, if only I were fluent.

Active verbs can be nominalised by putting the word "te" before them.

Kai, the verb to eat is nominalised as te kai.

Ma haere tatou,

Ma indicates necessity

haere is the verb "go"

tatou is inclusive we.

We ought to go.

That is all of us, _including you_ the listener.

Bet that had you the listener on tenterhooks.

The sentence could have been,

Ma haere matou.

Then it would be all of us _excluding you_ the listener.

Thank you for letting me share some thoughts that are new discoveries for me.

Me haere ahau

Must go I.

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