<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>4:42 is the one that um is the one that used to be yours is that owned by trinity newman er NOW i think it is yeah it wasn't before <{><[>it was privately owned <[>it is yeah but it <{><[>was <.>such such a word <[>is <.>that that whole block down there now um it's <.>you <.>they they owned all of them except for that whole block down our end yeah um but now i think they own the whole of that one as well have they done them up <&>5:00 no are they still really shitty yeah it still looks exactly the same except for <.>the when i went into the bathroom i couldn't find the mirror ha ha i was telling sandra about um sleeping on the floor and about how all the blood rushes to your head cos it's on an angle laughs she said she'd noticed that you walk in the front door and you're standing there trying to walk in the front door and you're falling backwards yeah <{><[>oh it's getting worse <[>it used to be really bad when you'd been out all night see that place is going to go down the hill soon so i'm amazed they didn't do any kind of major structural <,> renovation cos it needed it yeah like put big brick walls at the end of <.>the the box yeah and there's heaps of other bits and pieces <.>is is the bathroom exactly the same yeah <.>you you mean you wouldn't have noticed anything different no the door's still too short and oh you mean the door to the toilet yeah no they've put a piece of wood on top of that yeah there <.>wa that was there before oh so when you go in there it's pitch black into the toilet <{><[>because there's no light in there <[><.>yeah yeah and <.>you <.>you you don't shut that door because if you shut it you're not going to get it open again you just <{><[>shut the bathroom door <[>oh is it getting worse see that's what <&>6:00 i mean about the thing sliding down the hill it wasn't like that before you could open it what so the whole floor's bending yeah the whole building's <.>sl sliding down the hill yeah but sandra doesn't mind because she gets cheap rent because she lives in a condemned house in a what condemned house yeah is it serious <.>that that <.>s cheap rent because it's a condemned house word well it's cheaper rent than any of the other trinity <{><[>newman places <.>so <[>yeah yeah how much is it she's paying forty seven fifty a week right that's not much eh <,,> tut sounds like it's getting worse and worse it should be i mean things accelerate when you <{><[>word <[>but can they legally rent out out condemned <,> <{><[>places <[>oh probably laughs it's interesting laughs cos you're not <.>supp i mean if they're condemned it means you're not supposed to live in them how can they charge people to live <{><[>there <[>maybe it's just condemned because it's god awful laughs but i mean <{><[>like yeah if you can't shut that <.>bi <.>be um bathroom door it's obvious that it's sliding faster and faster and faster down the hill tut <[>mm i wonder how much it moves a year eh well obviously a lot <{><[>laughs <.>cos yeah that was no problem to open and shut before but <.>that's the whole point of having that door <&>7:00 there the reason they put it there is cos you're supposed to have two doors between the kitchen and the toilet that's um by building <[>mm <.>cos mm specifications or whatever um by <.>the by law but it means there's only one wall between them and a <{1><[1>bloody thin wall <{2><[2>between the toilet and the kitchen <[1>voc the kitchen <[2><.>that's that's not such a problem but you've got to have two doors <,,> <{><[>you can't have a toilet <.>open i don't know there were a lot of stupid rules that were really annoying that if <.>we we had our way we wouldn't have made them do that because the fact that you could shut the bathroom door but you couldn't shut <.>the <[>why kitchen door um yeah the toilet door you couldn't shut without losing the light and stuff because originally there was a little gap up <{><[>there that <.>was that was taken away quite early on while we were there actually <[>yeah did they end up putting <.>it they put smoke alarms in too didn't they er yeah he had already you see <.>the the landlord got the place up <.>to up to regulation because they had guys coming through there all the time they've <{1><[1>put <.>the the like the toilet window's boarded up as well <{2><[2>was <.>that <[1>yeah why would you bother word <[2>yeah <{><[>um closed before <[>that was boarded up before there was never a window in there yeah there was a window <&>8:00 was it open er no you had the little <.>sli slopes <{><[>i think <[>oh right yeah er because it had a board over it or something before i'm not sure what do you think of daniel's new amplifier is that the one he bought instead of the keyboard yeah no no really it's a keyboard laughs is it any good yeah it's a fender pro one eight <{><[>four <[>oh yes that's what i thought you'd look at the name first laughs it doesn't go very well with the other ones though it's the wrong colour with what other ones those <{><[>ones <[>your ones yeah it doesn't eh word yeah he should have thought about that when he bought one got the right colour and all how much did it cost him er nine nine five or something no about nine hundred something <{><[>like that it was quite cheap because they're good amps i mean they're worth probably <.>that maybe almost twice over probably not though maybe another <.>th another three quarters again <[>mm he must <.>have he must have stopped playing his guitar so much <{><[>he hasn't been round here for ages <[>no his parents give him two hundred a fortnight do they really mm and of course he's <.>g he's working and he's got an allowance i mean not an allowance <&>9:00 <.>a a loan two hundred a fortnight? yeah <.>he he bought that with his loan <,,> voc that's unbelievable that is <{><[>so much money <[>i would <.>have i would have put something else up um like unfair laughs yeah <{><[>i think it's really rude there's all these people who get money paid to them from their parents and i have to pay money to my parents <[><.>un annoying i think so <{><[>yeah <[>yeah so do i my parents don't pay me anything <,,> well yours is piddly though isn't it about thirty dollars a week it's forty oh forty andrew's is forty andrew's is what forty he's <{1><[1>on the dole <,> reckons he's going to start paying eighty a week when <.>he <,> <{2><[2>gets a job <[1>mm <[2>see technically when <.>you like in a state house you're not supposed to pay over half of your um <,> <.>allowan half of your benefit <.>in <{><[>in rent <[>yeah there was all that stuff in the paper about the guy that <.>was <{><[>was it just over fifty percent <[>yeah it was the fact that he was going to lose in the <.>long yeah he's gonna lose in the long run anyway cos of course they will be allowed to get away with it laughs it's worth having a fight i suppose whereas like with mum we pay you know well over half <&>10:00 how much do you pay seventy how much do you get a week hundred and twenty hundred and sixteen just <{><[>for that <[>are you getting an accommodation benefit then <{1><[1>oh an allowance or anything <{2><[2>i mean is that what makes up for the hundred and eight <[1>no <[2>no and eight oh yeah yeah i see yeah yeah and er yeah that's right eight dollars word allowance <{><[>laughs <[>does your dad still pay you yeah he's paying me a hundred and fifty a month that's not so bad he's paying warren a hundred mm mm no it's not too bad does warren know that he's paying you a hundred and fifty yeah what did he say about that well he couldn't really say anything could he <{1><[1>i think he thinks it's fair enough which it IS laughs in fact it's a little bit too fair <{2><[2>laughs he's been paying it to him for a <.>long a lot longer than he should but i guess dad got into a bit <.>of <,,> um a trap once he started paying him and warren stopped going to school <[1>mm <[2>mm i reckon yeah because i mean <.>it it worked like he <.>paid he was going to keep paying it until beginning of <&>11:00 the next year last year which was basically a you know a bribe to get me to go back to university and so on mm but with warren it was never on those terms which is what it was originally which was <.>help money to help you with your education yeah like i don't think it's fair that he's still paying him but i mean i can see that he couldn't really <{><[>not pay him yeah <[>say no is he still paying him even though he's got a job yeah <{><[>which is <.>ri <[>oh well how <.>much how much is warren going to earn mm probably not very much but a damn sight more than i will wasn't <.>it like on that bit of paper that was on the kitchen <{><[>that said something about the equivalent of the dole plus fifteen dollars or something <[>tut um <,> the <.>minimum yeah the <.>minimum oh no that was for um <,,> no i'm not sure what that was from i think the minimum wage is about six dollars an hour or something <{><[>that he can get <[>yeah i think it was six seventy on the piece <{1><[1>of <.>pa six thirty on <{2><[2>the piece of paper or six seventy but i'm only on six thirty <[1>yeah <[2>yeah mm but you're parttime aren't you yeah and various things like that well parttime's supposed to be more than fulltime is it <,,> <{><[>oh sniffs <[>oh that was before i guess <{><[>because you can't get um <,> things like <,,> <.>penalty penalty time <.>and <[>and warren doesn't get voc <&>12:00 yeah stuff like that yeah warren gets none of that <.>so he doesn't even get lunch breaks oh he should <,> he's um i don't know how he copes without his cigarette tut oh he does get lunch breaks he gets half an hour does he yeah but he doesn't get any other breaks yeah <,> but the breaks are um on the job breaks and things he goes out for a smoke or something out the back yeah they're not official breaks what he doesn't get to walk out of the shop and leave it behind no he's supposed to have his lunch at the place anyway they can't do that <.>they're no no well they can't not let him have a lunch break either because that's <.>just how many people have they got in there there's three of <.>the four of them isn't there i don't know no idea sniffs <,> mm i'm sure there was four of them sniffs when are they moving don't know <,,> <&>sighs yeah don't know much about all that andrew reckons he's moving into a flat as soon as he gets a job yeah <&>13:00 or as soon as biggs gets a job <{><[>or keith gets a job <[>sniffs oh yes keith's working for <.>some <,> i think it's some photographic place down in picton is sarah going to sleep <,,> no i'm reading oh about the verlaines <{><[>if they're ready to fly <[>oh yeah oh yeah that's the album isn't it yeah do you want me to get some paper for the computer um what do you mean blank a four mm voc it's mum's um so if you do what is it is it photocopy paper um yeah i think so yeah it's pretty good quality paper it's not not crap i'll see if dad dad's probably got some lying round i'll just steal it <,> he'll never know <&>13:40