<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>tape one starts <&>0:09 <&>5:38 we did um stuff like oil explosion yeah so you could relate that couldn't you because that's a resource <.>a yeah i don't know yeah i guess you could one year cos i <.>mean yeah new zealanders the europeans are extracting oil out of it oil out of the company <{><[>and as fast as they take it out the the something tribe of <.>a something are pumping it back in again both laugh <[>laughs <&>6:00 that could be quite interesting <{><[>actually and these the techniques they're using it actually quite interesting with the geothermal area <[>laughs yeah yeah especially cos they the maoris must've known the chemicals that were there cos some of them would be poisonous wouldn't they and they wouldn't have used that water mm to bake things in cos otherwise they would've died you're quite right both laugh and all the like the bacteria and things as well yeah cos some of it some of the um if you put your head under the <{1><[1>water you got that bug what's it <{2><[2>meningitis? <[1>yeah <[2>amoeba yeah no <{><[><.>am amoeba something or other it's <.>a <.>ami aminus something or other amisulitus or something <[>mm no i think it's <.>menin <{><[>meningitis <[>no well that meningitis is um totally different it's a disease <{><[>like polio <[>but it gets in through your yeah yeah but meningitis is polio or something like that it's related to that no <{><[>it gets in the nervous system <[>betty knows it yeah i know but it's like polio it's one of those sort of things oh <{><[>right <&>7:00 <[>but this one's an amnio something or rather amnio gelitus or something <{><[>betty knows it <[>right but the meningitis is in the hot water in some of the pools oh is it oh <{><[>right <[>yeah i think so oh cos <{><[><.>that's <[>you can get it from there word ? yes <.>w you mean that amoeba thing that eats your brain <{><[>out <[>yeah yeah it's called something else <{><[>i can't remember what encephalem that's your brain isn't it laughs both laugh <[>is it i don't know i don't know what it is laughs <.>cos it's just a little whatsit yeah that funny thing <{><[>you have that green thing <[>laughs that thing that eats out your brain <{><[>it's really gory <[>laughs laughs but yeah you're not supposed to put your head under the hot water <,> that's what you get <&>inaudible speech laughs you poor thing <{><[>emily <[>and then you'd have to <{><[>laughs <[>you poor poor thing when did you go swimming both laugh must have been a while ago your brain's half eaten put that down for aegrotat but wait on you're just a blonde laughs laughs oh isn't that awful both laugh have you have you given your people the um everything that <{><[>they need <&>8:00 <[>yeah yeah AGES to fill them out don't you yeah hope they write nice things about it laughs that's absolutely horrible i've got this little note bottom line please lie love pam both laugh it'll be interesting what they are i wonder if they'll tell me what they wrote in laughs mm oh never mind never mind but also on this thing it's got er qualifications in the subject which the <.>applicat applicant <.>wa wishes to teach so if you were doing secondary <.>wa you'd be teaching english wouldn't you i don't know what i'd teach both laugh not much huh laughs don't be a blonde both laugh <{><[>not a lot laughs <[>laughs i haven't got any <.>s second cos you have to <.>d do twelve credits at two hundred level to teach <{><[>word english <[>and you have got any maths at two hundred level oh well not unless you got an e laughs <&>9:00 seventeen percent laughs laughs maybe you should be crying both laugh i got thirty three percent for maths both laugh that was first year though laughs you should have tried word that wasn't as bad what one and two oh two one <{><[>five um linear algebra <[>two <.>one oh oh that's disgusting word i've sold all my books to <&>name laughs good one laughs hope you charged him extra <,> for using your books not everybody has a chance to use use somebody's books who only got seventeen percent in her course laughs do they no no <{><[>laughs <[>no this this is true <{><[>tut <[>mm what other sort of questions do they ask you in the interview <,,> i was just thinking that they're going ask you so tom is she good or bad both laugh yeah she lost the standard question they ask everybody that <&>10:00 both laugh they'll ask you things like oh like if you got <{><[><.>re <[>how long have you been a blonde laughs thanks a lot they'll put down things like if you like reading they'll say what do you like to read and things like that <,> <{><[>or <[>so i shouldn't say mills and boon laughs laughs <{><[>no <.>don't don't tell them that you watch <.>and <[>what are you laughing for i only watched the last twenty minutes laughs um <{1><[1>no more like if you've got interests like music and stuff they might ask you about it and <{2><[2>stuff don't tell her that you like george michael though both laugh <[1>word <[2>mm oh why not no we'll strike her off the list <{><[>we don't want her <[>even though he's sexy <{1><[1>i don't actually listen to his <{2><[2>music i just look at his posters <[1>laughs <[2>laughs laughs i got a shrine in my room yes yes er maybe not no voc i would say i like george michael <,> but they probably wouldn't know who he was laughs my man <{><[>thinks george michael's michael jackson <[>who's he both laugh hey i heard this thing on the radio today that <&>11:00 said that it was top secret but laughs top secret mm you wouldn't you wouldn't know it um that michael jackson and madonna were going out laughs oh WHAT laughs yeah believe that you believe anything yeah quite interesting eh what about <.>wha what about um what do they ask you what television programmes you <.>wa they would watch <{><[>like that? at least you could have put it down that you want to <[>mm in this interview i went to to do with deputy warden job up at vic um they asked me what television programmes i liked watching and i said both laugh oh and the news occasionally both laugh well i watch both laugh <{><[>only the really boring programmes <[>foreign who doesn't it impress you <,,><&>3 both laugh um it says here knowledge of maori language and culture and knowledge of other languages and cultures <&>12:00 oh dick's <{><[>here so's tom <[>dick's here oh good i know um <,,> er i don't know what are they knowledge in <.>m maori knowledge well i know quite a lot of cultures yeah both laugh <{><[>i read books <[>oh actually i'm a different culture by myself both laugh let's call it a joe culture both laugh <{><[>yes something <[>i only got picked out of my wardrobe both laugh i did biochemistry laughs not cos you're an anthropological study on me <{><[>my flatmates are readers both laugh <[>study on trouble you can see it on both laugh <{><[>yeah <[>here we are one of my flatmates <{1><[1>is especially interesting <{2><[2>she's doing linguistics <[1>yeah <[2>yeah both laugh i don't know why she's interesting laughs but she's a blonde laughs that explains everything <{><[>laughs <[>yeah i thought it i thought it might laughs i told you my blonde joke last night didn't i what joke i can't remember oh both laugh is that it <&>13:00 yeah <{><[>laughs <[>tut no no no it wasn't a joke no no it wasn't um no i can't remember greg told me one but i forgot oh probably cos i already knew it not the one about the suez canal no the one about the blonde using the word processor what's that oh how can you tell if a blonde's been using a word processor how twink on the screen both laugh <{><[>snorts <[><,> isn't that rude <&>break in recording where tape switched off? so now tell us about the um the exhibition that was <.>e exactly the same for for <{><[>children <[>yeah yeah except you know there were those purses those flax ones and they had those flax brown things in them the baskets? yeah yeah and they had those woven things in <{><[>them <[>yeah well those woven things have gone <,> somebody's nicked off with them or something or they've taken them out cos people kept <{><[>playing with them <[>mm <{><[>yeah <[>i wouldn't mind nicking off with those cellophane fish they're <{><[>cool eh <[>i really like them eh they're sort of more effective than johnny's ones but only <&>14:00 because um the colours are brighter and also um <.>they they like blossom more and you <{><[>know how her tissue ones got damp <[>yeah yeah and all soggy soggy <{><[>yeah <[>soggy fish and they kept falling down off the windows yeah there's a lot of condensation in this flat <{><[>word <[>especially in the bathroom both laugh or in the roof the living bathroom laughs that's awful i got that exit mould and i sprayed it and it's really awful spraying exit mould on the roof cos it all comes down yeah and it's like chlorine <{><[>word <[>well you can wear that balaclava <&>pronounced bavaclava of ours bavaclava bava bava BALaclava isn't it no oh yeah oh bavaclava's the thing you eat eh both laugh you could wear a <.>pud i don't think so laughs you put a pudding on your face both laugh do they taste nice both laugh you won't get any mould on it it won't go mouldy that's how you could preserve food you could put exit mould all over it yeah that'd be a really good idea <&>15:00 both laugh oh you're intelligent only a blonde could think of that right oh don't put yourself down both laugh oh a bit rude laughs <,,> what's dowsetts dowsetts? yeah that bag oh it's a er er er er dowsetts fashion it's a clothes shop <.>in up in otaki oh that's quite good eh yeah well tut yeah <.>it it's relatively lower prices similar to ballentynes you know what ballentynes are like have you seen ballentynes in christchurch it's <{><[>like kirkcaldies <[>no really yeah oh it must it can't be the <{><[>ballentynes it's not <[>no it's a different one yeah it's really expensive and you get really snooty people mm <{><[>yeah <[>mm sort of like james smith is it no kirks it's more like kirks really yeah you get all sorts of things did they do kirkcaldies up a few years ago <{><[>yeah yeah <[>really really <.>l lots yeah cos you know how there's that bit now <&>16:00 that you go up and it's like mm it's a ramp oh yeah yeah well it used to be steps <{><[>there used to be budgies in there they've gone now <[>word <{><[>bungies <[>oldies bungy jumping wealthy ladies with the poodles the poodles bungy jumping word have you heard that joke about um the <.>blind why don't blind people go bungy jumping yeah cos their dogs wouldn't like it yeah both laugh sad <{><[>word <[>word what about the irish water skier did you hear that one no why <.>didn't why couldn't that irish man water ski why he couldn't find a lake with a slope on it both laugh that was my brother's joke oh no you mustn't been here for tea other night oh must've been after tea we were talking about um tut about jokes word oh but your brother wasn't here oh no no ben told me in the weekend oh right about that ben's got a really cool flat eh <&>17:00 they got a a radical feminist in there and tut aha you know and and different really different actually cos beth's one of one of the girls she plays rugby yep cool and she really enjoys it from the sound of it except not when she's hung over laughs they went to this party and simone the feminist she um was wearing this she went as pippi longstockings she bought this like pinafore dress <{><[>and she was wearing these fawn coloured tights and she bent over and lifted up her skirt and there was this picture of a face on her backside <[>aha oh yuk i know i thought it was awful but never mind she liked it something different i guess laughs and um tut what's her name <,> diana she went as um charlie chaplin she's quite good actually what did you guys go as oh we didn't go we went and saw <{><[>and then we came back and had a few drinks coughs <[>oh right so that was that was all we did not kahlua no <{><[>not kahlua it was baileys on friday night and wine on saturday night it was the most alcohol i've drunk for ages except i couldn't um drink when we went night clubbing on friday night cos i had the car <[>laughs <&>18:00 right and i don't drink and drive that's groovy yeah well it's the smart thing to do word nathan word when you drive it's a stupid thing to do anyway right but ben <.>drink drunken drives word mm for about twenty k you know i was so angry with him um nathan hasn't talked to his flatmate all year cos she drunken drive word then she's dead <{><[>yikes <[>that's what he said to to the ambulance <{><[>officer word <[>yeah yeah word or what he is but <{><[>word <[>here's the siren <&>imitates sound of siren laughs no oh <{><[>okay <[><.>ni nice try emily <{><[>but not quite <[>laughs both laugh oh no reckon you should dye your hair you might have more hope laughs <&>19:00 no i'm only jealous i'm only jealous no we told so many massey jokes this weekend sheep jokes alcohol jokes that we thought was really bad <{1><[1>and blonde jokes he only called me a dizzy blonde one weekend and i think about half of ben's flat was blonde so it wasn't the right thing to say <{2><[2>word <[1>laughs <[2>laughs it was like on um friday night when i had dave round and i made a <{><[>joke about catholics and he's a catholic <[>yeah laughs both laugh oh but he took it <.>really he just laughed eh tut well that's okay tut <{><[>yeah <[>but that was cool cos he was oh yeah it wasn't really bad i just said um oh we're having meat tonight we're not catholic ho ho like this and he he laughed and then i said to him later oh so what church do you go to he said i go to the catholic one in karori aargh did <.>he he he did you ask him whether he thought the joke was rude i said oh NO you know word he said no no don't worry about it no you know is he quite a strict catholic <&>20:00 well yeah well i think he's well he's christian he actually believes he doesn't just go to church it's er yeah that's really good yeah we don't have many catholics in christian union so it's really cool i mean there's no reason why there can't be yeah but they have their own house don't they yeah they have kohanga but that see rosy house isn't christian union <{1><[1>it's the anglican centre we just <{2><[2>use it he's just there laughs <[1>no <[2>oh yeah how many people are there in christian union i don't know the lists are about eighty no a hundred or something on the list but you only get usually about sixty maximum yeah usually it's about fifty that's okay though yeah that's good has it been always like that since you've been at university oh yeah i think so we had lots of first years this year that's good really really good how do they hear about it oh we sort <.>it we do that information table <&>21:00 that's good was bobby doing it this year yeah he's on he's on exec right that's where i've seen him word that's where he was yeah he was doing something on clubs day too i think recently oh haven't really seen for a <{><[>while <[>he's in my cell group oh right he's the only guy he gets heaps are you the leader in it mm you don't like it oh no i don't know i just find it really difficult because er i'm not very organised laughs mm tut well it's and also like you're supposed to be like you're supposed to know like if there's some MAjor theological question they can ask you laughs and you're supposed to know yeah <{><[>i don't know <[>i'm only a blonde yeah both laugh <&>recording ends <&>21:44