I guess they didn’t want people to end up calling it P Road
The name – meaning “to move swiftly in battle formation like the crab”
We can’t have anything cool in this country. We need more street names like this! I for one would be proud to live on the battle crab street.
What percentage of NZ could actually pronounce it though? It's an absolute mouthful.
Papa-kanga-horo-horo. Eight syllables, pretty straightforward. My Māori is pretty trash, but after one read of it and a handful of times saying it out loud it's pretty simple.
My advice to anyone complaining about it is to just say it out loud a few times. I guarantee that by the time you've said it to the moving company, the power company, the insurance company and your mum, you'll have it locked down.
It also has the added bonus of being completely unique, so there's no chance of your ambulance being dispatched to park terrace on the other side of town while you're choking on park road.
I don't know man. It would just take a couple of tries to get it and then get used to it like pretty much anything new?
Honestly I've never cared what the name of the street I lived on was or how long it is.
sounds like the crackers should go back to europe if they dont like it
"too long" fuck off street names over 15-letters are the norm where i live
It's not exactly "rødgrød med fløde". Dr. Seuss put harder-to-say things in books for children.
I guess the natives should get over having been conquered too, then? Normally you lose naming privileges when you get succesfully invaded,
No problems with the racist epithets bring dropped previously though, right? Bad faith gets met with bad faith, in my book, pathetic trolling with equal, but opposite, pathetic trolling
The people we call natives today displaced other peoples before them, and so back to the dawn of time. In any case, the racist epithet I was referring to was 'crakka', as you conveniently ignored.
Normally you lose naming privileges when you get succesfully invaded,
I guess not.
The Maori people weren't defeated. The British got sick of getting hit as hard as they were hitting so they sued for peace.
There are tons of roads in the bay of plenty which are harder to spell and pronounce.
What a farken mouthful, bugger trying to say that when you need to call an ambulance.
Also like let's be real, people are gonna either come up with a snappier name or just keep using the old one
You assholes constantly show up where you're not wanted, post the most inflammatory takes possible, accuse everyone who disagrees with you of racism, and generally engage in bad faith.
Take the hint and fuck off.
That is a bad faith argument when you need to learn it in order to call for help. Kinda leaving out some details.
Besides, you fuckers just absolutely flood every thread you show up in.
Please look up the definition of what arguing in bad faith is about.
Lawyers will argue this shit for days, please don't start fights for no reason.
I have to spell my street name 50% of the time, and it's a perfectly normal English word. The last place I lived had a slightly unusual English word name, and I had to spell it 90% of the time.
Why are you incapable of learning it though? Is there something special about you?
You're getting yourself worked up over Papakangahorohoro Road. Take a chill pill!
Papakangahorohoro doesn't even look or sound hard. If you want hard, try wrapping your head around figuring out how to pronounce Welsh - Who are the real British people, and not those savage Germans calling themselves "English" -
For example, imagine you're touring the village of Llanhyfryddawelllehynafolybarcudprindanfygythiadtrienusyrhafnauole and decided you wanted to catch a train to Liverpool but on your way there you accidentally take the wrong train and end up in Fairbourne at Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion rail station. Makes for a great photo opportunity at least.
Dude got mad when someone asked if he saw mary poppins. You can't make this shit up
If the people that live there don't want the name then it should be changed. The council consulted the local iwi and got a stupid name about moving in a crab formation, I'm pretty sure we can swap that out for another name without cultural uproar.
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