<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>5:56 yeah but it doesn't matter whether or not you've got it it matters whether or not your <&>6:00 parents have had it or your grandparents not that i know of no oh that's all right no coughs no i no there's er shouldn't be any problem there the only um <,> thing of course like <.>i is that some of them are holding presentations and they're accepting c vs and er there's there are dates for interviews <,> but some of them are just sort of putting on presentations and that's about it <,> er whether or not it's actually worth going to the to the presentation only ones is anybody's guess <,> i'm certainly going to go to as many of the ones that are holding interviews as possible so i can get my hopefully get my name down tut there's a whole bunch of them it's the graduate employers thing that they hold over the next two months <,,> <{><[>so <[>god i can't wait till i'm a graduate yes <,,><&>3 er yes yes well mind you i don't i'm not sort of an official graduate yet i've still got to wait till the end of the <{><[>year and i've still got to wait till the end of the month before i get my official <.>res official results through <,> to confirm that i've actually got <.>s you know some that i've got some confirmation of actually having my degree <&>7:00 <[>mm <,> mm mm <,> oh well well at least you were <,> i remember when you um <,> you know <,> were basically um on unemployment benefit and sort of reading six books a day and and um <,> <{><[>you know talking to yourself and being bored to tears <[>yes <,> well still am mm and now you you um are on an unemployment benefit you read six books a day and you have a degree at the end of it <,> <{><[>so it's pretty good laughs <[>yes <,> yes well i'd actually prefer a job well that's that's that's another <{><[>point <[>but jeremy you must admit though it's a step <{><[>of it's a step along the way <[>you must admit yeah so there yes and and and um <.>r realising that pride is a terrible sin but even so hee hee <{><[>i got you to do that so there <[>or sin is or sin is a terrible pride yes laughs yes so i got i got you to do that so there yes <{1><[1>i know i i keep yes every time people ask me how i got onto this i usually tell oh it was a friend of mine who who suggested i go to varsity and er and <{2><[2>when she said that <[1>i nagged you into it <[2>nagged you to death <{><[>laughs <[>i didn't actually need a um didn't actually need to sort of er have a university entrance and that i could just matriculate then there was no problem mm so i went on in in eighty eight and signed up and have been there ever since <,,> <{1><[1>god word three and a half years <,> yes well yes <,> yes well anyway i got my two official er i've got my two unofficial results and all i have to do now is wait for <,> is is is hope is wait for them to become official <,> so i've got all my major requirements at least i'd better have <{2><[2>and it's just a question of er waiting for the end <.>y well as far as that's concerned just wait till the end of the year and i get my degree and that's that <,,> as for anything postgraduate i think i'd rather i'd like to have some money first <,,><&>3 yes <,,> so <[1>and done brilliantly too so there <[2>mm yeah <{><[>oh well you did that postgraduate thing this year <[>that's of course keeping up <,> yes yeah um <,,> well what i'm looking forward to do is is get my degree finished over and done with and out the way <&>8:00 mm which will be should be a GREAT <{><[>relief <[>yes yes yes however many decades it takes yes the eternal student mind you i actually read a science fiction novel about one of the main characters <,> was <{><[>a <&>9:00 <[>i'll be doing it fulltime next year <{><[>so there and i won't have naughty children <,> jolly well playing up all the time AND because i won't be on d p b i won't have to have them every single week either <[>yeah yes i'll be able to have them once a fortnight or once every three weeks if necessary yes or whenever <{1><[1>yeah yeah no i was just just <{2><[2>thinking you know i <.>act i actually read a science fiction story the main character er was being subsidised by his his <{3><[3>his one of his relatives <,> er <.>hi his relative was paying all his bills so long voc you know <.>t while he was at <.>s university studying <,> so he just stayed at university and studied and studied <,> in the <.>end and <.>ma and <.>ma and er er just raked in all the money which i thought was quite a good dodge i wish someone would do it for me <[1>yes <[2>it'll be a GREAT relief <[3>coughs laughs the eternal student you know you'd sort of take up <.>bask creative basket weaving and a bit of anthropology and next year do a bit of physics or bit of geology or a bit of archaeology and something like that but of course the <.>e the trouble was they kept changing the rules on him in order to try and get him to graduate <&>10:00 laughs so that they could then hand him a degree <,> and um he he he he had to keep ahead of them all the <.>s all the time <,,> er er as it turned <&>pronounced surned out of course he um he actually winds up getting a job it's just it's a science fiction story he winds up making contact <.>w he <.>fi winds up <{><[>helping a couple <[>better than real life <{><[>laughs <[>well he winds up helping a couple of extra terrestrial detectives track down a a an alien artifact <,> which er he which has apparently passed through his possession you wouldn't be talking about <&>name by any chance no no this is no no <{><[>good heavens no <[>sounds more like him <{><[>laughs <[>no this is er a <{><[><.>rod <,> it's er it's by roger zilasny <[>seven years to get a degree well it took tony burden seven years to get a degree mm so there <{><[>word <[>tony got his in theology though didn't he um theology? no he did <,> he he did um um <,> i forget what you call it religious studies anyway down <{1><[1>down down in dunedin <,> for a year <{2><[2>i think it was um <,> but he he got his in english up here <[1>oh yeah <[2>yeah <,> uh huh <&>11:00 right but it took him a long time mm cos like me he's had frequent bouts with um mental <{><[>disturbances <[>yeah oh yes and it's they're just as debilitating for for him as they are for me mm so you know there is one thing i wish we could do with tony and that's sort of see if we can't sort of quite persuade him not to smoke in the house er <,> um well it would be rather like trying to persuade a um <,> a er <,> nuclear testing station not to leak radiation or um <{1><[1>laughs an an industrial <{2><[2>area not to produce um heaps <{3><[3>of um monoxide and <,> and um <{4><[4>various other um poisons <[1>word pity <[2>laughs he's a <[3>pollution yeah <[4><.>he yes he's a hoopy frood otherwise but i i really wish we could persuade him to give up smoking yes well his wife's been trying to persuade him for the last fourteen years i think she's sort of given up laughs well if his wife can't <.>w well if <{1><[1>pauline can't do it <{2><[2>i don't see how we can yeah <[1>oh <[2>i know <&>12:00 exactly if pauline can't who <{><[>can so um and he has tried i mean he he grizzles at me about eating <,> and he he you know what he calls us <[>yeah what he's got a nickname for the two of us what madame vanity and mister selfpride <{><[>laughs <[>oh god <,,> oh so i'll <.>w next time i see him i think i'll cut <.>ha <.>ha i'll take a hacksaw to the cable to the brake cable of his car or something laughs so you're mister selfpride and i'm <{1><[1>ms vanity <,> <{2><[2>he thinks i'm extremely vain because i um i had that t v in your in in my room that time <,> and you came in and said can i use our t v and i said well it's not being used at the moment so away you go <[1>oh <[2>word gee yes laughs yes and he he said who's t v is it i said well well it's his t v <,> and he said oh you've got it in YOUR ROOM voc <,> i i said <{><[>well it's my video <,> i'm paying for the video <[>yeah well you were paying for the <{><[>video put it like that yes <[>i was paying for that at that particular stage clears throat yes and i went grizzle grizzle grizzle and he said doesn't matter he's paying for the t v so there <&>13:00 mm but there'd been <{1><[1>equal equal comments and he said oh <,> oh there goes mister selfpride again laughs <{2><[2>so <[1>true <[2>oh <,> yes maybe we ought to find a way of slowly shooting him or something if there is such a way <{><[>of course <[>no no you'd have to face the wrath of pauline <,> <{1><[1>believe me the wrath of pauline would be the wrath <{2><[2>indeed <[1>yeah that's true <[2>oh yes she's half german voc laughs don't ask which half yes laughs <{><[>laughs <[>er tell me how's their sproggy coming along oh he's as sick as a he's he's <,> TERRIBLE <{><[>terrible <[>hasn't got the measles has he there's <.>tha that's drifting around oh god i'm glad my two <{><[>don't have it <[>come to think of it your two had had the measles yet? oh yeah over and done <{><[>with <,> mm <[>OH they've had mumps measles and chicken pox hopefully not all at the same time well i think they had one one lot right on top of the other <,> i got the mumps as an adult that's the worst yeah that's fairly bad when adults get it because that's that can be lethal <,> <{><[>the fact that you're still <.>al alive and kicking proves that it wasn't <,,> unless that's an amazingly remarkable hologram <&>14:00 <[>well laughs <{1><[1>can't you see the er the k on my <{2><[2>forehead <[1>mm <[2>no no that's an <{1><[1>h <&>pronounced haitch it's a little little little <&>pronounced lettle letter h <&>pronounced haitch you got to have <,> yes i wish they'd bring back er red dwarf i quite enjoyed that it <.>s it it <,> <{2><[2>you got it quite it got it frequently got distinctly bizarre <[1>h it's an h that's right it's an h <,> that's right <[2>mm i'll say oh well this is new zealand television for you anything of any decent standard they remove from it well yeah <{><[>forget word yeah <[>heaven forbid that anything decent should be shown on television i still haven't <.>forgiv i'm i still ain't gonna be it's gonna be a while before i forgive t v er two for taking star trek off and then the next generation i was enjoying that you realise mumps isn't as lethal for women as it is for men er well i'll try hard to <.>av well i had it anyway <{><[>i i got it as a kid <[>well that's good well it was absolutely disgusting i mean i lost a stone my neck and my face were out there we're talking the bloat look oh it was REALLY bad i mean i couldn't i could barely open my mouth oh yes i had to have a liquid diet <,> i couldn't move i mean i was just <&>15:00 mm um you know i was basically imMOBilised for THREE weeks and it took another week and a half before my face went down mm <,> i don't know i think about the worst dose of illness i had REALLY bad i don't know i i can't really think of anything really <,> worst dose of illness i had <.>w had were were my childhood diseases and that was it god well you were lucky anything that laid me up for more than a few days and that yeah was it was the mumps or <,> measles or chicken pox or something like that <,,> excuse me while i explode oh <,> phew laughs there goes the cat laughs it's all right pussy cat sneezes <,> exhales god you realise you just terrified your cat oh i did just shocking i sneeze <{><[>and er and poor <[>mm he must have ninety lives instead of <{><[>nine <[>yeah oh i i something shocking i i sneeze and poor honey leaps onto <{><[>leaps onto the floor in a great panic <[>laughs coughs whereas thad just sort of turns and <.>look looks at me you know what are you moving for <&>16:00 yeah muffy does the same yes er mind you <.>s come to think of it <&>name my <.>o other cat was just quite bomb proof you know my cat i i was busy lying there coughing and spluttering and <{><[>things and my cat comes over <,> and he sits there and he STARES at me laughs <[>mm yeah what are you doing making all that noise yes do you realise you're disturbing my sleep he says yes <&>16:25