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.

I like how Wellington Paranormal twists the trope of “competent woman among incompetent men” where Officer O’Leary is smarter than the others…but only barely. As in, she’s not the one who got caught on the fence regularly, but she’ll still talk to the camera about how we have to be careful about picking up our litter while vampires fly around right behind her.

Look, I know it's a joke but still. This is one of our top news website's urgent crime news from the capital.

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