dear MAORI, please don’t name your kids DICK because you will be appropriating an English word AND offending English-speakers world wide

Just like the English, sometimes the Maori also use the word for bush to mean something sexual : OMG, we are both fellow human beings after all !

Just like the word pussy in English, which has both a dictionary cum Sunday School meaning in English along with a more informal and taboo meaning, the Maori word huruhuru has both polite and less polite meanings.

This has gotten two businesses in trouble with a few self-publicizing WOKE Maori people, because the businesses consulted online dictionaries when creating new products, without looking further down the computer screen to discover that the word huruhuru also had some additional - rude - meanings.

And who says the oppressed of this world lack a sense of humour and a sense of irony : these Maori Awoke chose to tell the English that they are using the Maori language without permission - in  English  !

English is the world’s most successful language around the world because it had been the most relaxed as stealing and appropriating words and concepts from other people’s languages to expand its own ability to better communicate the smallest concepts of existence.

By contrast, languages from political cultures that insist on using no ‘borrow’ words (theft words, appropriating words) are bulky languages : they insist on explaining a new concept within the word itself, using their only their small ancient existing vocabulary.

In English, we must painfully memorize that the borrow word ski means, well a ski.

In a language like Icelandic, they would tend to call it something like “thin-sticks-to-glide-over-snow”.

I personally who prefer to live in a world where all languages freely stole and then adapted each other’s languages to the mutual enrichment for all.

If English cum Anglo- Saxons gave back all the words they stole - from the Greeks and Latins ever onwards, we’d be reduced to a mere few thousand Anglo-Saxon words that no one could spell or pronounce right, let along use right.

Words are exactly like the humble Nova Scotian earthworm - everyone loves them and wants more of them in their garden, but the plain awkward fact is that they are not native but an European invasive species  - as are all white Nova Scotians.

We humans have been invasive species ever since we crawled out of some remote little rift valley and started into invading Africa before taking on the whole world.

Instead of apologizing, both businesses should go on using these words in their more official dictionary meanings while telling these WOKE Maori to go Richard themselves in their Huruhuru where the sun never shines.....