<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:30 was <{><[>he in there when we were in there <[>um <,> when when the door was shut oh no i don't think so oh apparently he's got lectures every afternoon or something he gets up LATE and goes to lectures and doesn't come home until late but he's also got another phone and his cord's really long so i can take the phone into my room if i want to isn't that just really exciting OH brendan and joey were going to ring you up yesterday before you came they did try <.>but <&>1:00 they <.>decided but you were engaged and they decided <.>because you'd probably be on the phone to either me or <.>a or matthew <{><[>laughs may as well just come round cos it'd be AGES before you got off the phone <[>laughs yeah cos it was really freaky cos i was there all by myself i mean yeah matthew had just rung up and there was this BASH on the door it wasn't like it was just a knock there was a BASH and i thought voc i don't want that voc to be for me doesn't sound friendly so i went and opened the door and i thought i should put the chain on before i open the <{><[>door <[>yeah he said you should get a peep hole or you should have said who is it i know i did think about it and then i thought don't be so stupid if they really want to come in they'll <.>just BOWL me through me anyway they'll just bash the door down and matthew will know cos he's on the phone to me at the moment <.>and and you hope he'll get out of his bed and run <{><[>over <[>oh no no um but yeah so i <.>put yeah i came back to the phone and he realised who it was anyway but that's <.>th one reason why he rang me BACK <.>too <&>2:00 cos <.>h oh i don't like to think of you alone and i thought ah laughs no i'm sure that's why his mother <,> is worried cos you know you being there aLONE having no parents there oh hell <.>n yeah laughs word parents yeah i'd forgotten that parents think like that laughs laughs yeah oh the glass house is the pub for friday night the glass house? is that the <.>o new one in courtenay place yeah now why did you say <{><[>word <[>YUPPIE i haven't heard of it before because i keep on driving to dad's work and you sit at the traffic lights just opposite yeah it's the old <{><[><.>con <[>word it actually looks really nice <.>i i actually saw it and it looks quite good and that we should try it sometime it's <{><[>also expensive i suppose <[>yeah well <{><[>so is the backbencher <[>mm i know yeah dad was telling me how expensive it was the other day and he word think about it no well i haven't been drinking lately oh OH laughs <&>3:00 i got a letter from libby she's a qualified physio now why have you got a letter from her cos she <.>m had <.>to she went down to dunedin to do her final exam cos you have <.>to you <.>sit oh i didn't know <{><[>she'd gone anywhere <[>word yep so she did go off just after the may holidays and she didn't ring <.>us any of us oh so she wrote to us and said i feel really guilty for not saying bye bye <{><[>laughs <[>laughs oh yay bad move so she's got it? mm oh that's cool they were having a big party one night and her parents rang up <{><[>and so her party got even BIGGER so she's a <.>physio <.>she's i think she's working on the ski field somewhere <[>laughs oh so she's not coming back? she's coming <.>up i don't know i gave the letter to bronwyn but she said she's coming back UP at some stage and she'll ring up oh but <,,> this is libby who disappears without a word so i don't know what she'll do laughs i wonder if she wrote to jan cos she and jan were REALLY good friends in canada mm and now they're back here jan doesn't get on as <&>4:00 <.>well jan likes arty farty people laughs she does it's awful <.>sh oh i went to have coffee with her the other day and there were all these weird people there laughs not weird people sharon they're just different laughs i always think is this carmen is this mary laughs cos carmen and mary are a couple <{><[>mm? <[>yeah laughs yeah laughs i don't think she likes that one no i think <.>n oh i wouldn't be able to cope with that at close quarters next door bedroom? no i definitely wouldn't be able to cope with that no laughs yeah i had um morning tea with jeff this morning jeff and amanda sitting on the bridge oh right yeah amanda said HI i know it was really funny cos i was sitting there kind of chatting to jeff i mean it wasn't majorly exciting or a wonderful conversation just kind of really odd COMMENTS <.>and um then i asked amanda a question and jeff went oh you <&>5:00 two know one another i said yeah i've probably known her longer than you have yeah this woman walked past <.>me hi laughs laughs and she goes hi laughs and katrina sat that h certificate thing oh for the horses yeah and she <{><[>got it? <[>and she got it excellent apparently they passed two and failed two so she was really pleased to pass and she was doing the riding section which was just you had to lead another <.>horse ride and LEAD a horse mm and the horse she was riding started bucking and kicking the other horse and if she'd fallen off they were gonna fail her laughs but she managed not to fall off and she managed to keep hold of the horses but her arms <.>go her arms are now sprained or something yeah? i haven't seen those two together though no i don't see katrina now i just see her dad cos i don't know if she's still doing comm law <{><[>jeff always comes in late <[>oh he looks so arrogant laughs how can someone LOOK arrogant laughs he looks cocky <.>or <{><[>word i don't know <[>and he just <&>6:00 and he's SO big he's noticeable yeah he looks clumsy though i mean laughs it sounds horrible but yeah he's <.>not i don't know i don't no i don't look at him and think impressive big <{><[>word <[>no too big just clumsy big matthew's hands look clumsy at times yeah he does THAT or something yeah doesn't look comfortable no have to teach him how to run his hands through his hair <{1><[1>laughs matthew this is what you do <{2><[2>laughs <[1>laughs <[2>laughs get one hand laughs place in front of your face <{><[>laughs get to know your hand be comfortable with your hand yeah i can just imagine it <[>feel comfortable with it there laughs mm i don't think i could do that no no so have you done your accy two two two tute prep oh oh i don't know <.>it no oh this is what i was doing <{><[>voc <[>what are the <.>qu essay questions like they're okay oh yeah they're MORE <&>7:00 okay but they're not okay aha laughs and voc winfield and zimmerman or something is revolting but only the first two questions from that though wasn't it yeah it's whitfield word i know the NAME of <{><[>my textbooks whitfield <[>laughs isn't it something <.>like oh <.>n <.>n well they're not that hard it's just you don't know what they're talking about coughs you know that first question looked quite horrible <{><[>i've read the chapters <.>though i read the chapters this morning so i thought that would help and it did though yeah i think i can do the second one <[>mm i know i gave up and got bored OH they're INCREDIBLY boring and it really annoys me because they quote themselves they go this argument is supported by blah blah and blah blah and it's themselves you think OH yeah roger was saying it's a really bad book oh voc oh it's terrible i mean part of the reading was supposed to be chapter one and chapter one's all about australia <{1><[1>i know i <.>don't i don't CARE about australia i don't see how it relates to the course we're doing who wants to know about all the <&>8:00 australian standards it's the new zealand ones we got to be worried <{2><[2>about <[1>i know it's an australian textbook <[2>roger knows two two two quite well mm good on him he got an a in it i know he didn't do that well in the terms test though did he? i thought it was another one of his you know <{><[><.>h <[>he FAILED bummed out <{><[>in the terms test yeah <[>two two one and he pulled himself up HE <{><[>missed the <.>first <[>like WE're gonna do hee hee hee oh he he did it all in one year though laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs oh we should even be better over two years oh when i went to get my car <.>n to get some of <.>those there were all these guys there <.>he he looks after <.>a all these unemployed people i think they go and help him and learn about mechanics but they um they <.>get they still get the dole type thing mm and they were all there having a wee chat <{1><[1>and he had to sort of voc <{2><[2>trying to word those people <[1>laughs <[2>mm laughs and um one of <.>them kev said oh you do know peter out in the yard he's the one with the blond hair is that that guy mucking around with the car i <&>9:00 could see yeah yep and he <.>said and he said the blond one and i said nah um no i haven't seen him round and he said oh he's doing accountancy too and i <.>said he said oh what year are you in and i said THIRD and he goes oh no peter's first year laughs i know yeah cos it's like those um christians that asked me to do that survey for them she goes what year study are you and i said third and she goes oh oh are you laughs and i thought that's JUST what i SAID THIRD year don't have your hands hovering above FIRST i said THIRD i know i'm sure they must have been about twenty <{><[>one twenty two <[>mm yeah i decided they could <.>e they could even be younger than us actually mm <,> how horrible BUT on the buses when we were in the states and canada and <.>things oh no more in <.>cana in the states definitely we looked the youngest by far and we were the only ones over the age of about ten who didn't have make up on yeah word females <&>10:00 yeah cos i remember <.>th um when <&>name came back from america they said <.>that that yeah ten year olds up basically all wear make up yeah and <.>y that's what john said when he came back from the states <.>but because ALL the girls are so sophisticated looking and look so much older definitely um you know <.>there's <.>they they definitely all try to chase the perfect woman so much more <,> <.>an i can't imagine it oh but they <.>g they all having boyfriends at ten <.>and i know and then sleeping with each other at fourteen laughs oh <{><[>i mean it's oh they sound like they have to grow up so much more quickly and that <[>fourteen yeah don't have to play things like murder in the dark laughs at age twenty one yeah that was fun laughs mm yeah that was amazing you kept on being the murderer laughs laughs i thought i must have looked so GUILTY NO you DIDN'T yeah <.>i <&>11:00 i couldn't believe it i say hello to you and i get strangled for it <.>w it was really vicious too i thought you're my friend if you're gonna murder me do it nicely please sorry matthew was USELESS to murder i murdered him about three times and he wouldn't die <&>11:15