<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>5:15 how much do you reckon the sky diving would cost i don't know forty bucks? <,> perhaps seventy bucks first time yep <{><[><,> i think <[>thirty bucks subsequent or something what i heard was the guy had four hours training <,> one weekend the next weekend went for his first jump <{><[>after an hour's training or something <,> and he had the choice for an extra five dollars to be attached to an instructor to go down with him to pull the rip cord for the both of them <[>yeah yeah or he could do it himself and they'd have thirty seconds free fall when they had to pull it yeah thirty seconds free <.>fall pretty awesome yeah <,> it's pretty <{><[>amazing word <[>do things <.>go do people go beep start giving you an electric shocks and stuff when it's thirty one seconds <.>or er no idea <,> but <.>i i thought they had automatic ones that did it by altitude yeah i did too <,> or radio controlled ones just freeze somebody sitting on the bottom here laughs yeah <,> someone jamming the frequency <&>6:00 yeah sniffs <,> i wonder how fast would <.>you how much velocity would you pick up in thirty seconds you don't think you'd reach terminal velocity no <,,> how far would it take to reach terminal velocity i don't know i don't know what terminal velocity is yeah? but when you when you hit that your neck just snaps doesn't it no terminal velocity's basically where your acceleration is completely offset <,> by the pressure of the air? <,> so you can't go any faster yeah <,,> but the wind rushing past you yeah? <,> but at that speed doesn't it kind of do funny things to your bones you know pop them <,> you know not really <.>i i thought if you fell from a great height chances are you'd be dead before you hit the ground no <,,><&>4 cos if you think about it clears throat tut <.>i if you're no longer accelerating you you no longer have any nett acceleration downwards mm your weight which is your normal weight as you sit on the earth would be exactly balanced by the pressure of the air <,> blowing up at you right? <&>7:00 yeah therefore as far as the sensation would would go it would be equivalent to sort of <,,> it would be equivalent to sort of <,> lying on a really really lying on a bed of air basically at a very fast rate laughs no it would be no no different to lying on the ground yeah <,,><&>5 if on the other hand you descended from orbit <,> into the atmosphere then you'd thing have things starting to snap off <,> you'd probably fry up before you <,> <{><[>reach terminal velocity <[>but um yeah <,,> before you'd be at excessive terminal velocity yeah yeah tut <,> i suppose <&>7:40 <&>one minute five seconds not transcribed <&>8:45 well that stuff's certainly better than the first stuff you made yeah it's good isn't it <,> have to put down another brew soon i'm about to run out yeah i've got a dozen bottles you can use well weren't you gonna do some yeah actually i might do myself a brew yeah <&>9:00 word how long does it take <,> from <,,><&>3 brewing point to drinking from conception to consumption laughs that's the one um <,> three weeks <,,><&>6 that's right which one's this <,,> is it <.>the it's the lager yeah what what brand lambda lager lambda lager laughs yeah it's kind of like <.>a amanda marga maggie baggy tut yeah lambda lager i quite liked it <,,><&>6 clears throat fuck i haven't been up kaukau for ages no <,,><&>11 see those rocks over there laughs see that tree jordan oh yeah <&>10:00 no no come down from to the left of the tower <{><[>there's those pointy bits <[>yep yep is there any good rock climbing in there <,,> i went up there with richard thompson once yeah? um <,,> yeah it's it's it's a bit like all sort of rocks round wellington <.>it's crumbly yeah crumbly it's just had too many dangerous <{1><[1>yeah i was doing some you know round makara you can <{2><[2>walk round walk walk round the point a bit tut i climbed up a um bit of a cliff face bar bank you know the whole thing just fell to bits in your hands <[1>big breaks <[2>shit mm it's rather a bit mossy from memory not very solid mm <,,><&>8 well weeds are growing well aren't they yep you haven't got too many dandelions in your oh yes you have oh i just mowed them down yesterday that's why <,,><&>3 do you think there's too many to put salt on them all oh i could do that it'd be a hideous job <&>11:00 mm i'm never gonna get rid of them otherwise am i no well why do you have to get rid of them don't worry about them <,,> there are a few that are sort of particularly annoying <,> mm have you seen that big one down there? <,,><&>3 have you? oh down the very bottom yeah it's just one of those really spiky ones <{1><[1>one that grows sort of about a <.>f metre in diameter if you let it <{2><[2>go <[1>yeah <[2>yeah <&>11:20 <&>one minute fifty five seconds not transcribed <&>13:15 oh you can see quite a lot of nairnville park from here yeah you can really <,,> tut you notice the old man walking round yeah a few circuits <,> it's probably quite a good idea really just gentle walk <,,><&>5 yeah you know how walking's supposed to be kind of some of the best exercise possible <,,><&>3 you know <{><[>for <,> kind of fitness and stuff <,,> <.>w wonder if i suppose when you're about seventy five eighty <,> if you you could and when you're about what my age <,> you'd have to do one hell of a difference in length i suppose <[>yeah <,,> what mean you'd have to walk one <{><[>a lot further <[>so you're telling me if you get any physical benefit you're gonna have to walk ten miles <&>14:00 i'm gonna have to walk say ten times farther than the guy who's <{><[>eighty yeah <[>yeah <&>15:10 <&>two minutes fifty seconds not transcribed <&>17:00 yeah i remember the first digital watch i saw it was one of those ones where you push the button and the little l e ds light up it was steven cockram's <,,><&>3 amazing mm and then i saw the demise of the digital watch when they became totally unfashionable in fact quartz analogue watches became the only thing that anyone would ever wear <,,><&>3 god and then i died both laugh oh it's not that bad <,> voc remember all those computer cards you used to have <,> what were they in aid of what kind of <,> manner of beast was that computer CARDS yeah remember you used to have packets of cards about so tall and that long both laugh word looking at them i was a geek i was a geek i know but but i mean <,> what kind of computers do computer cards come from i mean <,,><&>3 you're trying to extract some sort of confession of geekdom from me both laugh that's the one oh no don't worry about it it was just interesting i found one the other day in a old book of mum's <,,> so when she wondered what it was <,> i said that was jordan's um that was when jordan was going through his period of geekdom <&>18:00 <,,><&>3 and she <.>meant she said oh yeah <,> adolescence and then puberty and then twenties i said yep laughs that was jordan's period of geekdom <,,><&>3 nah <&>18:20 <&>one minute not transcribed <&>19:20 in my school c german exam mm there was a question there was there was a piece of prose that was written out you had to answer questions on it and it was entitled trouble with wasps <,,><&>5 and i had never seen the word troubled or trouble or the word wasp <,> before it made it very difficult to sort of write coherently on this <&>both laugh and cough yeah that kind of thing's happened to me before fuck man really rude eh <&>20:00 mm <,> tut cause i remember <,> in calculus things you know really simple equations and things you got to get them right that changed the whole fifteen mark question yeah <{><[>but <[>you know <,,> can't even get the first bit right laughs yeah that's cruel <&>20:15 <&>one minute fifty five seconds not transcribed <&>22:10 i'd love to visit asia yeah? yeah oh you gonna go with me then when are you going i'll be going back to <.>japan no not japan i can't afford to live in japan i'm not saying live <{><[>in japan i'm saying <[>like third world asia i'll be IN asia <,> i'll be in japan probably the end of my <,> degree <,> then i'll probably spend time working there and making up money and then travelling round asia and coming back <,> gonna get a visa for a year or something to work <,> tut make some money and then <,,> go over there <,> like india i want to do mm and thailand mm so you should come over then once i've earned my monies yeah you can shout me yeah probably afford to actually two dollars a week laughs how much did andrew fitz say he was living for <&>23:00 oh something like two dollars a day <{><[>living really well <[>mm mm burps but when he says <.>reliv living really well <,> what does he um mean by that oh god good food good food and what oh i don't know living well laughs probably sort of about as well as you can live in Wellington on a yeah highly qualified civil servant's salary i mean you know <,,><&>3 afford to go out for dinner <,> every night is that <{><[>word <[>afford to drink alcohol every now and then every night <&>23:40 <&>forty seconds not transcribed <&>24:20 oh what do they have to teach you when you go sky diving what <,,><&>3 they teach you how to pull the cord laughs how to land i think sort of <{><[>bend the <&>pronounced zee knees is about all they say isn't it <[>and how to jump yeah don't panic when we push you out of the aeroplane and bend zee knees when the ground comes up to you really quickly both laugh probably about <{><[>all there is to it <[>how how how fast do you come up with the actual parachute out it's still quite a speed isn't it oh yeah i think it's sort of equivalent to jumping off <,> there down to there yeah ten foot jumping ten foot something like that and just keep your legs running as you come down yeah it it depends if you've got a crosswind if there's no crosswind you're gonna come straight down aren't you mm <&>25:00 but i mean either way your <{><[>vertical component's going to be the same it it's equivalent to fall jumping from ten foot <[>do you roll what kind of jumping off there down to jumping off the roof <,,> down to the ground below i mean it's you're <.>qui quite liable to injure your ankle or something but if you do it properly you're okay yeah and they teach you how to do it properly i suppose yeah and you can't chicken out and say oh yeah i think i'll give this another go laughs i mean you know how you sort of time yourself for jumps mm and if you go <&>makes falling noise you <{><[>haven't got that right <,> you can't <[>yeah yeah so it's kind of a <{1><[1><,> i i think the hardest part would be actually just standing on the edge of the plane getting ready to jump now that'd be quite tricky first <{2><[2>time <[1>do or die <[2>yeah but you don't they what they do is they rush you through it apparently and you in the end they go PUSH and they go bye bye before you even realise you're about to go laughs you're going in five seconds five four three <&>makes pushing noise laughs yeah <,> it's probably the best way just as your body starts to tense up yeah <&>26:00 <,,><&>4 man <,,><&>3 the best thing to do would be not to look until you're out cos as soon as you're out <.>y all the tension'd be gone wouldn't it yeah nothing you can do inhales <{><[>except pull the cord <[>that's right what happens if you pull the cord early like five seconds you're out of the plane you don't do any free fall mm i think i think you land any <{><[>you know like the radius of your landing sort of rather expanded probably <[>word yeah um <,,> coughs where do they do it do they do it round paraparam or i'm not <.>s i <.>h think it's done in the wairarapa yeah? 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