Wellington Journal

Potty talk

This is too good not to share.  In my Maori language class the other day, one of the students who works at the New Zealand Family Council handed out a booklet with Maori phrases for use in the home (encouraging Maori to speak Te Rao Maori with their children). 

One of the subsections is language for use when putting on a fresh nappy (diaper).  Useful phrases include:

Have you got a smelly bum?  He haunga to kumu?

Have you farted?  Kua patero koe?

And, my personal favorite…

Did all that come out of you?  I puta katoa mai tena i akoe?

Gosh.  E hika ma.

posted by Sara @ 12:38 PM