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I'm pretty sure there are other things (with emphasis on things) that could be discribed as useless. A sister not being a thing is not one of them. I'm very surprised that there is a whole lesson on learning "Ke Akua pū" and other "polite phrases" and here you teach how to belittle and dismiss a person. That it is always the female who is useless is a completely different story, but not less wrong.
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Agreed, except that for me this is the second such example. The first was a useless older brother, so the gender thing is at 50-50.
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When is "loa" translated as "very" (my previous understanding), and when is it translated as "most" (a recent addition to the vocabulary here)? What markers differentiate these usages?
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It is not encouragement, it is an option in case you posted something that you want to remove. I have used it many times for my typos and mistakes.
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I usually don't get into these debates, but I'd rather call an inanimate object worthless than my sister...