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Brian Ross Gold Member Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost Jul 8^th, 2025 at 2:00pm NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost, as communities band together to help save them
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 50550 At my desk.	Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost Reply #1 - Jul 8^th, 2025 at 2:08pm They should write them down.
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Reply #2 - Jul 8^th, 2025 at 2:15pm

What exactly do these people want? It is not practical to speak these languages - dialects with only a very small number of speakers originally - at work and of extremely limited value speaking them at school. If the younger people don't want to speak them then they will disappear as part of the natural selection process.

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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 87675 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost Reply #3 - Jul 8^th, 2025 at 2:42pm freediver wrote on Jul 8^th, 2025 at 2:08pm: They should write them down. Preserve them in the Smithsonian or something.... your Aborigines are speaking to you in a language dead for hundreds of years ...
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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 51444 Gender:	Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost Reply #4 - Jul 8^th, 2025 at 4:31pm freediver wrote on Jul 8^th, 2025 at 2:08pm: They should write them down. That would be succumbing to racist colonialist oppressive ways. Traditionsl interpretive dancing is the answer
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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 51444 Gender:	Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost Reply #5 - Jul 8^th, 2025 at 5:49pm We have a new Commonwealth poet laureate. Step forward, Selina Tusitala Marsh, a leading New Zealand poet and professor at the University of Auckland. Here's one of her poems:
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 50550 At my desk.	Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost Reply #6 - Jul 8^th, 2025 at 6:08pm Frank wrote on Jul 8^th, 2025 at 5:49pm: We have a new Commonwealth poet laureate. Step forward, Selina Tusitala Marsh, a leading New Zealand poet and professor at the University of Auckland. Here's one of her poems: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqFOsc4aYAIbCib?.png But not whenever I pee.
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Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost
Reply #7 - Jul 8^th, 2025 at 6:16pm

freediver wrote on Jul 8^th, 2025 at 6:08pm:

Frank wrote on Jul 8^th, 2025 at 5:49pm:

We have a new Commonwealth poet laureate.

Step forward, Selina Tusitala Marsh, a leading New Zealand poet and professor at the University of Auckland. Here's one of her poems:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqFOsc4aYAIbCib?.png

But not whenever I pee.

Wee wee wee, wee wee wee.

You are the next poet laureate.

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Reply #8 - Jul 8^th, 2025 at 8:45pm

Frank wrote on Jul 8^th, 2025 at 5:49pm:

We have a new Commonwealth poet laureate.

Step forward, Selina Tusitala Marsh, a leading New Zealand poet and professor at the University of Auckland. Here's one of her poems:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqFOsc4aYAIbCib?.png

Why - that's brilliant - goes straight to the heart of a young Maori woman rising through the levels of society to find her true place in the sun by triumphing over racism, misogyny, negative peer pressure with clubs, and the inbuilt sense of lack of entitlement to rise that plays such a part in keeping her group down ......

I's a professor now! They get different tasting crayons...

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Brian Ross Gold Member Offline Representative of me Posts: 44327	Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost Reply #9 - Jul 9^th, 2025 at 12:26pm Twilight Zone. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
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Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost
Reply #10 - Jul 9^th, 2025 at 3:21pm

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 9^th, 2025 at 12:26pm:

Twilight Zone. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

Whenever anyone discusses the evil committed by Aborigines and the tyranny by governments in imposing this horror on us and shoving this garbage down our throats - all Brian can say is this.

It is demeaning and he is saying our words and concerns are worthless and we are worthless for expressing these concerns and discussing this topic.

He is saying "You are worthless so is your opinion".

He is expressing his superiority and your insignificance and lack of worth - WOFTAM.

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Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost
Reply #11 - Jul 9^th, 2025 at 3:33pm

Boris wrote on Jul 9^th, 2025 at 3:21pm:

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 9^th, 2025 at 12:26pm:

Twilight Zone. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

Whenever anyone discusses the evil committed by Aborigines and the tyranny by governments in imposing this horror on us and shoving this garbage down our throats - all Brian can say is this.

It is demeaning and he is saying our words and concerns are worthless and we are worthless for expressing these concerns and discussing this topic.

He is saying "You are worthless so is your opinion".

He is expressing his superiority and your insignificance and lack of worth - WOFTAM.

His base stupidity is surpassed only by his vanity.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 50550 At my desk.	Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost Reply #12 - Jul 9^th, 2025 at 3:35pm Perhaps Brian has lost the right and ability to criticise anything other people say. So all he can do is dribble.
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Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost
Reply #13 - Jul 9^th, 2025 at 4:06pm

Boris wrote on Jul 9^th, 2025 at 3:21pm:

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 9^th, 2025 at 12:26pm:

Twilight Zone. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

Whenever anyone discusses the evil committed by Aborigines and the tyranny by governments in imposing this horror on us and shoving this garbage down our throats - all Brian can say is this.

It is demeaning and he is saying our words and concerns are worthless and we are worthless for expressing these concerns and discussing this topic.

He is saying "You are worthless so is your opinion".

He is expressing his superiority and your insignificance and lack of worth - WOFTAM.

Twilight Zone. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

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Brian Ross

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Re: NT elders fear Aboriginal languages are being lost
Reply #14 - Jul 9^th, 2025 at 4:07pm

Frank wrote on Jul 9^th, 2025 at 3:33pm:

Boris wrote on Jul 9^th, 2025 at 3:21pm:

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 9^th, 2025 at 12:26pm:

Twilight Zone. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

Whenever anyone discusses the evil committed by Aborigines and the tyranny by governments in imposing this horror on us and shoving this garbage down our throats - all Brian can say is this.

It is demeaning and he is saying our words and concerns are worthless and we are worthless for expressing these concerns and discussing this topic.

He is saying "You are worthless so is your opinion".

He is expressing his superiority and your insignificance and lack of worth - WOFTAM.

His base stupidity is surpassed only by his vanity.

Twilight Zone. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

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