<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:06 you can do that with fish as well mm anything <&>microphone noise really we haven't had fish for ages we haven't had fish <{><[>since we've been here <[>we never have fish these days <,,><&>3 it's kind of tricky cos even though it's an important part of your diet it's very expensive mm <,,><&>3 how much would six pieces of fish cost laughs i don't know probably be about ten dollars <,,><&>3 <&>softly might be more <,,><&>3 every time i go home my mum gives me fish laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs yeah i go mum can we have fish for <&>1:00 teas please she goes yeah sure <,,><&>4 all i feel like is when i go home is fish and eggs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs mm you've got your reasons word yeah i could have eggs i just don't you know <{><[>because no one seems to sort of <,> have just straight eggs for dinner laughs i'm lazy <[>sure tut you could have them on something you liked mm i did have it with my mm toastie or something <,,><&>5 got stuff all about word in here <,,> did you get <.>there to that meeting yeah what was it like it was really good <,> i can attack now and i can <,> defence and i <.>can know the positions and so they put you in <.>the yep <{><[><.>they they gave me a <[>word word yeah he gave me a quick lesson cos i'd missed another two weeks <&>2:00 mm a quick lesson to cover two weeks laughs tut i found i wasn't aggressive as all <.>the as all the others and tut but hey how <{><[>was supposed to fight <[>those others <.>in <,,> were probably <,> the same as you were in the first <{1><[1>week and they've <{2><[2>had two weeks experience eh <[1>mm <[2>mm yeah and most of them are guys and guys are more aggressive anyway voc mm <,,> mm that was really cool <,,> you should come along laughs learn to fence <,,><&>3 not my favourite desire laughs i just wanted to <,> try it out laughs novelty of it oh yeah suppose laughs more fun than word towards <{><[>laughs <[>laughs mm laughs <,,> it's quite a unique <&>3:00 scoring system i never knew existed laughs how does it work dare <{><[>i ask <[>word <,> well you're only allowed to touch the people on their <,> tut target area which is their body you're not allowed to hit their head <{><[>and um or their voc legs <[>oh yeah that's fair enough which is good they'd be ripped otherwise laughs <,,><&>4 <&>hums tut it's not meant to be a dangerous sport mm word <{><[>laughs <[>it's not <.>norm it's not like kill kill kill it's <{><[><.>a more like a conversation as he put it you say very subtle things with your sword <[>mm mm and the person um attacks first has right of way <.>it's they've got really funny rules laughs <,,> laughs and that's word <{><[>word if i was in a real sword fight <[>laughs no you know obviously you wouldn't do that in a real one laughs the aim is to KILL but <,> but these days it's very gentlemanly <&>4:00 mm <,> tut so that's what it was in the old days a discussion <{><[>laughs <[>a discussion laughs it's how they worked out their aggression laughs yeah this is true <{><[>they worked it out very well <,,> <[>laughs you see <.>the some of those great fights in the movies i think they're amazing aren't they mm and they're not wearing <{><[><.>these <[>and the women laughs yeah <,,><&>4 what always annoyed me about those <.>sort about those movies is that the female never had any choice they just went out and fought over her <,> and whoever won got her the lady it was usually the man wasn't it <,,> no i mean sorry the guys fought but the ladies never had any choice oh <,> yeah if the guy won <,,> she had to have HIM yeah <&>5:00 even if she wanted the other one laughs laughs yeah they didn't ask her about it <{><[>laughs it wasn't her decision <[>mm all they had to do was ask her instead of fighting <{><[>about it laughs <[>yes exactly you make the decision my lady laughs oh no women don't make decisions <,,><&>6 they want to give victoria a maori name <,> i think it's just <{><[>word <[>oh no <,,> no no no oh rubbish the name is an ALBATROSS hanging around its neck because it's unnecessary and could be quietly dropped well so is a name like word mm <,,><&>3 well there's all that fuss and bother for a stupid reason they've got more important things to worry about than the <{><[>naming of um university <[>mm it's pathetic <,,><&>3 you go around changing the <&>6:00 name of everything <,> because it's word mm what do you think it should be called i mean <,> dunedin university's called otago university and wellington university yay yeah boring word university sounds stupid no sounds like a polytech laughs wellington polytechnic wellington university <,,><&>3 i like victoria <,> it's it's a celebration of a <,,> of the people who settled of that time mm voc and <.>it i like that image anyway english image laughs mm <{><[>mm <[>laughs <,,><&>4 i don't want a maori name <,> who wants a maori <{><[>university <[>yeah laughs imagine how much they would word if word went down overseas <&>7:00 <,,><&>3 it'll have a different meaning laughs i think they should all have distinguished names i think auckland university's pretty boring too mm word enforcing their reputation <{1><[1>laughs nah auckland university word <{2><[2>word <[1>yeah <[2>what would they call it then <,,><&>3 what auckland mm um <,,><&>5 mm it's not so easy <,,> it's hard to think of names <{><[>laughs laughs <[>laughs no i think of <{><[>any <[>you wouldn't exactly want politicians bolgie laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs oh we could call wellington something to do with parliament something like <,> the beehive university um <&>8:00 laughs <{1><[1><.>capit <,> capital <{2><[2>university <[1>no <[2>yeah capital uni laughs university capital laughs laughs word university <{1><[1>laughs laughs word <{2><[2>so what what hold on what are some of the american yale <[1>that's <.>a <[2>word <{><[>yale harvard <[>word oh but it's all people isn't it yeah people bolger laughs oxford muldoon oh oxford's the name of the area isn't it mm oxford cambridge mm <,,><&>4 yeah same as auckland laughs mm what about word laughs victoria's fine word rubbish someone must be word some time i reckon someone must be really bored word voc voc <&>9:00 <,,><&>8 laughs oh they decided on the flatmate last night oh did they and um now mark's decided he doesn't like it so they rang him up and asked him to <{><[>move in word word oh some guy works <.>in he's a computer programmer <[>who is it <,> what year mm computer <{1><[1>programmer laughs laughs <{2><[2>no laughs <[1>oh he's not there computer word <[2>laughs not that there are word at uni doing computer programming laughs no he's not a student he's quite young though <{><[>word <[>mm the other one um <,> i don't know what happened to him i think he decided against it oh yeah <{><[>yeah <[>why doesn't mark like him oh well mark's <,,> a noisy person <&>10:00 and he's <.>a kind of a loud canadian word and this guy's really quiet <,> almost word kind of word gidday well hardly <.>they they <{1><[1>so he's quite he's loud i mean he'd <{2><[2>have <.>to the quiet ones wouldn't bother the loud ones but the loud ones might bother the quiet ones <{3><[3>so what's mark worrying about i mean <[1>mm <[2>laughs word eh <[3>yeah that's right well that's oh nige and he are considerably different people <{><[>laughs laughs <[>laughs he is eh how's the new girl <{><[>oh she's she <.>d decided not to take the flat because she didn't like the area <[>word oh too far to walk oh that's fair enough because i mean if she's walking home by herself <{1><[1>word word <{2><[2>word <[1>mm <[2>i like <{><[>your fluffy slippers jen laughs fluffy slippers <[>she word <,,><&>4 tut i feel like <,,><&>4 i don't know <{><[>what i feel like laughs <[>laughs you do that a lot mallory laughs oh what do i feel like um i don't know well i know i feel like like something and i don't know what it is <{><[>laughs <&>11:00 <[>mm laughs <,> oh how was it's a REALLY stink production but word um the story line was good it was quite you know followed the book laughs yes just some of the light man hurt your eyes severe <{><[>laughs <[>laughs no cos it was suddenly you're in this scene and then all of a sudden there's another scene'll <,> pop up and the light was really awful cos it was like <,> you're looking at a silhouette of something and the light from behind it's too bright <{><[>laughs oh man <.>it's <[>laughs oh poor movie making <{><[>laughs it was really bad <[><.>but they had a bad director but they <{1><[1>had the characters really well like piggy and porky and <{2><[2>and the <.>cha <.>the the actors were good apart from hamilton he was useless you know the corporal hamilton but <{3><[3>they didn't do <.>that they didn't do that speech at the end <[1>oh <[2>oh <,> word <[3>what about frank oh didn't he no i was so annoyed oh <{><[>cause me and <&>name were waiting for it <[>word powerful speech yeah that was the only one i was really thinking <{><[>well it's a good bit <[>oh it was who was the director have to go to one of his movies again <{><[>laughs <[>oh no the actors were <.>re no the director <&>12:00 not the actors laughs the one who directed all the <{><[>word <[>i think actually tom shadbolt <{><[>himself helped directed <.>the he's the author <[>word oh <{><[>right <[>but he didn't do it all himself i might have some more weetbix laughs i think you should mallory laughs <&>mic noise laughs thanks for the advice kelly laughs <{><[>laughs oh <[>it's a tuesday hang on it's a wednesday <{><[>you definitely should have some weetbix <[>laughs laughs <{1><[1>laughs i know <{2><[2>it always goes this quickly it's stupidly <{3><[3>overwhelming <,,> it always is word <{4><[4>word like this year is just <&>makes swooshing sound quarter of the way through <[1>far out this week's going so quickly <[2>oh <[3>oh <[4>mm this year is a blink in the whole series of <.>a i mean you're quarter of the way through this again and you're half way through that's three times over what you've just had <{1><[1>and you're finished laughs <{2><[2>laughs we're through laughs cos this <{3><[3>i thought this <.>th didn't feel like be quarter of <.>that my university year excellent oh we thought you weren't in for tea tonight <[1>and we're through <[2>don't scare me <&>13:00 <[3>mm laughs oh i am with you <{><[>um <[>because i've got my little thingie but we need another chicken okay <{><[>word <[>i word <&>13:18 <&>end of sample