Which is exactly the spin we used to put on it, when I worked there.

Shit, did I say that out loud?

Because the Department of Inland Revenue taakes your money.

(Or should that be the Dept of Island Revenue, as Russell put it).

Might have to check that on Wikipedia.

I understand Shane Jones is the head of 'Island Revenue' these days...
:- )

Except that the "Taake" in Te Tari Taake is a transliteration, rather than a word that existed in Maori. A perfectly good way for words to come into a language, of…

I note that sprinkling words from one language into another is sometimes called macaronic...

Heh. That would open a right old can o’ worms, given the source of the show’s funding.

Tāke (or Taake) also means “tax” – as in the Department of Island Revenue’s Māori title, Te Tari Taake.

Sometimes it's appropriate to thump the desk, but not all the time.

It sounds the same in Japanese, too:

メディア丈

Or:

メディア長

Not to say a good berating isn't satisfying…

And frankly, you don’t have to be Andrew Bolt to find ABC’s Media Watch can…

I note that Hiwi & Pat Tauroa’s guide to marae protocol puts the word in a highly relevant context:
The taki , the representative of Tane Mahuta, is placed before you, to invite you to come in peace, while…

Well, that's certainly a much more comfortable platform from which to lecture,…

Is there a problem in that your media review is partly like…

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