<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:08 aeons and aeons half an hour forever man so what did you think of it robin of the videos by sandy benning yeah i enjoyed it i think they dragged a couple of places i think that one inhales <,,> i liked ruby fruit yes mm i didn't <{><[><.>like <[>weird ruby fruit mm the one that wasn't love i thought was a good idea but it dragged a little bit in places well i didn't understand what <.>the the dressing up well not dressing the sort of putting um er the BEARD on herself and um sort of like in the middle of this RELatively cool story about how she got picked up by some woman who um was said she was gonna go to hollywood and then all of a sudden for about you know five minutes she's just sort of posing in front of the camera with a beard and a cigar <&>1:00 perhaps they were acting out her fantasy or something <,,> mm i found that slowed it down i found it would have it would have been better without it mm and i also thought i could do films as well as that if i came with an idea laughs mm <{><[>word <.>the <.>the it was all a sort of a GIMMICK of um very close face shots and words sort of as reply words written on paper that you read as a reply word of speech which was actually <.>re quite cool <[>word v h s however you know the last two films mm she had quite impressive editing facilities for those yeah because she was doing voice overlaps and she had two or three layers of sound and she had lip synching <{><[>you can tell <.>from <[>she didn't actually do particularly well in the lip synching for the the person singing the song it was totally cool hearing jolene sung for real though you mean the original version <{><[>of jolene <[>well A somebody who meant it without the <&>2:00 sisters of mercy attitude it wasn't <.>dam haven't you heard it before no i've <{><[>never i mean i know it's a song <[>word it was <.>dol dolly <{><[>parton <[>dolly parton yeah dolly parton did the original version <{><[>yeah i think there's actually even a copy of it at home <[>jolene jolene UGH i can still remember the dexy's midnight runners version that was um mm oh was it <{><[>yeah well that was their big one <[>yeah SHIT that was their big one i mean <{><[><.>mo <[>okay i'm totally <.>s <.>f STUFFED up cos <.>i <.>i <.>that that was such a cool song i wrote <.>it i thought you know i was gonna follow these songs i WROTE it on my wall in pencil <{><[>laughs <[>laughs oh wow along with um <[>lefthand side laughs oh <[>oh what was the name of the group and it was the swingers i'm counting the beat two three four <{><[>five <[>oh speaking of that i got that on c d tut oh god <,,> why <,> <{><[>you've more c d's to get than us <[>voc <,,> huh? and i'm confused <,> you said oh god i don't quite understand why <&>3:00 just the thought of pass the dutchie on the lefthand side <{><[>laughs the video was cool too <[>that was such a cool song the kids that were all about twelve <{><[><.>and <[>what was their name what was the name of the group it wasn't boys to men that <.>was it was something ridiculous like that wasn't it oh i can't remember JOAN jet and the black hearts was the best of the whole lot <{><[>though that was so cool hearing it again i really should get that single put down on <.>to on to some format i can listen to <[><&>makes guitar noises i saw it on c d single the other day must have rereleased it <,,> why would they do that they rerelease a lot of things for some odd reason um things like more f m play them and they say oh <.>w we can't get this any more and it was such a big song a while ago laughs told you i ran into pinner today didn't i coming up the hill no we were coming up the hill her and calvin were coming down OH RIGHT and you went into your respective parties yes laughs a damn sight easier irritating i mean i could have sat there and talked to calvin and had her sat there and glare at me was the other option <{><[>laughs <[>well i <.>certainly well i certainly wouldn't <&>4:00 have talked to her it would have been a three way conversation between you myself and calvin yay involve cath what's lee's stress with calvin word i don't <.>know i don't have any stress with calvin i have a stress with the fact that ana doesn't like me talking to calvin laughs you should go up to him and stick your tongue down his throat and say calvin baby be mine laughs i don't think it would work cos his reaction to me <{1><[1>when i pinched <{2><[2>his bum <[1>perhaps he'll probably <[2>she <{><[>NEEDS to LEARN laughs hey have you actually seen <.>the <.>the <.>the the rant <,> <[>try harder have you got it yeah it's er got a print out where is it robin you took it in here and you were either going to frame it or burn it i'm not sure what you did didn't you <{><[>throw it in the bin <[>frame it laughs i've always got a frame it option did you throw it out what's behind you oh? <,> no idea oh piss is it on a computer widget are you sure you <.>d i heard you screw something up when you came out here no no i didn't screw it up word <,> oh you don't want to try it do you no i HATE wine stop it you should try muller thurgau pardon <&>5:00 laughs it's the one i like the most wine's wine wine ISN'T just wine it's a fruity wine don't you think they've all got that grapey taste though that really makes you sick <{><[>well laughs <[>the grapey taste is nice but then i love <.>fr fruit juice he can't find <{1><[1>it look it's not <{2><[2>following his word <[1>ah laughs <[2>i'm going to check and see if you did in FACT throw it out um it's unlikely seeing as i did the rubbish today <{><[>that you would find it <[>oh because i heard you screw something up when you came out here i didn't screw it up voc what in god's name is that a letter from lee <{><[>what was the rant about <[>oh um um um ana just sort of <{><[>pissed me off without realising it's not from you <[>word i'm jealous oh <,> laughs in a <.>typic typical stance of not answering anything with any kind of real answer aggravated jonathon to the point where he sent her back <{><[>word <[>oh you've printed it out yeah well surely you've got it on email still yeah i do it's a matter of seeing it now i want to remember what i said voc i remember i thought it was a robin rant <&>6:00 what robin rant just A robin rant it wasn't a robin rant at all yeah <{><[>i've just realised that laughs <[>robin <.>hasn't laughs robin hasn't done a rant for a <.>long is this a conscious effort no <{><[>i've had nothing <.>to <[>maybe she doesn't get uptight maybe it's just my imagination ana yeah when did she get <{><[>uptight <[>did she tell you she <.>got gets uptight when you talk to <{><[>calvin <[>OH GET REAL that's <.>like laughs <{><[>that's what i thought laughs <[><.>anacoluth well she's not gonna SAY anything jesus laughs two anacoluthons so anacoluthon as in plural like ana anacoluthon you're making really bad puns <,,> you can't find it right word saw that the last three times and found all of her pears gone right oh thank you thank you name HUH? <{><[>huh <[>a cool little story <.>that <.>that that i used to listen to a lot well it's the best of monsieur rossine i think it was called and um the story was <,,> um about two little <&>7:00 kiddies who i think it was somehow set in war time or something so it's the pears was considered a great gift from the gods and monsieur rossine had a um had a pear tree and these kiddies used to steal from it and they got busted one day and so they dressed up as a monster and i think they were going there and um and they go in and steal all of his pears and then monsieur rossine wakes up and alas alas three times alas he found all of his pears <.>bol gone and he traps the monster and takes it off to paris and then shows it off in some show or something <{><[>er <[>and found out it was kiddies at the end of it <{><[>right <[>yeah and he found that it was kiddies at the end and he adopts them as his own cos they were orphans or <.>probabl laughs i don't know <{><[>nice little happy ending <[>at least they <.>get ALL the pears they want and i think you should play that united nations um year of the child <{><[>tape again soon <[>laughs laughs how did that little song go from it that one my hands are so sore from scrubbing the floor i just like my sisters to try having <&>8:00 inhales blisters laughs cos that was the new cinderella song she was TIRED of her old song and she wanted to sing a new one <{><[>all the <.>s all the storybook children went on strike <[>really <&>general laughter it was the storybook children on <.>the mm haven't you burnt it yet no it's SO COOL he burnt the ana rant i haven't BURNT the BLOODY ana rant it's somewhere okay i want the <{><[>ana rant <[>what would be the point in burning it since you've got <.>a can make any millions of copies if you want it was metaphorical symbolic OH laughs to kill the ana rant or not to kill the <{1><[1>ana rant or more to the point to flaunt the ana rant or not to flaunt the <{2><[2>ana rant <[1>laughs <[2>FLAUNT it yes well what was <{><[><.>it <[>ana's seen it robbie's seen it ROBIN'S seen it <{><[>ROBBIE'S seen it <[>i want to see it i wrote it laughs it was a lovely piece of prose it made absolutely <,> NO sense at the <{><[>best of <[>laughs i don't think I could write a sentence as complex as <{><[>what he did <[>laughs bullshit yeah sniffs <&>9:00 no no no i <.>sa <.>i i still take the cake for the most complex sentence cos i went on for about two pages to robbie on one little rant about i suddenly realised this sentence has gone on for <{><[>now about ten lines and i still haven't stopped it SO FUCK it let's keep on GOING inhales <[>laughs did you use lots of apostrophes NO no no no no laughs no it commas <{><[>you mean <[>WHY would i use apostrophes don't worry this is an amusing question because laughs ana and calvin <.>were when they met us they were making this comment right and calvin was talking about how graham could get into writ one one one? one oh one one oh one if <.>he the written application i mean i said the stupid little bastard he should've replied months ago and he would've got in and <.>i what would've happened was he could write a written a written letter to try and get in and i could've gone along and put a few spelling mistakes in it and stuck heaps of <.>i apostrophes everywhere cos i am atrocious with those and of course they would've <.>l taken one look at the letter and thought oh this guy's atrocious we'd better let him in to the course i thought about that but i wrote a really <&>10:00 gratuitously grubby letter so and i'm going to have to go and retract it now and ana said what is an apostrophe because she didn't know what apostrophes were astropoofs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs <.>and and calvin spent quite a while explaining to her what they are and finally she said OH I know and then she said this little speech right i don't need to know what they're called i <.>kn i know what they look like and i know where to put them sometimes and i just burst out <{><[>laughing <[>laughs <{><[>scary <[>and then i thought if you look at an apostrophe it kind of bends like that hasn't she done <{><[>writ one oh one <[>laughs yeah probably she's done it and <{><[>she still doesn't know what an apostrophe is <[>she word what an apostrophe is yeah that's frightening actually <&>10:40