Hey, fellow fans of OFMD, What We Do in the Shadows (movie & show), and Wellington Paranormal! Karen O’Leary & Mike Minogue (Officers O’Leary & Minogue) have started a Wellington Paranormal podcast!
Maaka Potahu (Chief Maaka) and other cast members are supposed to eventually have guest spots on future episodes (there’s only one out so far.) If you love the show & the movie that spawned it, you should check it out ♥️
A special message from Wellington Paranormal for New Zealand Sign Language Week 2022
Interesting fact: New Zealand has two official languages, Māori and NZSL. English is not an official language, it’s just the most commonly spoken.
Māori sign language is still developing, as Māori deaf people have not always had equal language education access, but there are some specific signs for Māori words and concepts (like the “kia ora” O’Leary demonstrates above). Here’s a news piece from 2017 about a trilingual sign language interpreter working on it.