<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>2:49 we saw um tut raoul julia and michael hutchence <,> and the guy who played winston smith in nineteen eighty four <,> in a film <{><[>about <&>3:00 <[>john hurt john hurt tut frankenstein unbound oh yeah it's called watched it yesterday it was um sniffs it was quite interestingly done john hurt is a scientist from the future who's created a new atomic weapon which um fires a slightly <,> charged <.>atom charged with some new process that he's found and when it contacts with anything it makes it disappear and er this process causes time holes to open and he falls through into <.>the um frankenstein's era <,> meets with doctor frankenstein and mary shelley <,,> generally has a bad time it's kind of back to the future meets frankenstein really <,> and you even get to see the <{><[>guy from in x s doing his stuff <[>laughs laughs what's he play a fool actually aha <&>4:00 a minor part <,> top billing minimal screen time right yeah in x s must have been doing pretty well <.>th then <{><[>see what they're doing now <[><.>well i read in the <{><[>paper that they're um they <.>presold <[>sniffs they're <,> playing in pretty distant <{><[>places <[>yeah they presold tickets and then didn't sell any more and are playing in little clubs yeah be fun <,> i suppose to go from like a stadium where you've just got <,> <{1><[1>heaps of noise and heaps of light <{2><[2>yeah i mean but but that can't be much fun all the time <{3><[3>no well laughs <[1>oh they sold out wembley <[2>yeah <[3>oh no no if <.>you i imagine not it must get really dull <{><[>borING laughs <[>laughs gosh i mean not much of a party trick to be able to say we filled wembley no <,,><&>3 flannelled fools do it regularly <,,> no what is it the muddy dopes that they go to see laughs no they don't play cricket there don't they no no <&>5:00 it is the muddy dopes yep <,,><&>3 why don't they play cricket at wembley because they've got lords <,> and they've got the oval and cricket places <,,> it's like saying why don't they play cricket at athletic park tut why don't they play cricket at athletic park cos they've got the basin <,> at the moment <,,><&>3 see what the motorway does to it tut mm they're supposed to approve that tomorrow they reckon <,,> yeah i wonder about the motorway <.>i exhales it's one of those things where it's clear <.>that it's clear that traffic coming from north of wellington going to south of wellington and vice versa has to spend far too much time going through a city street system when it wants a motorway so it can dodge that tut but um i <.>d <&>6:00 still don't know that <.>dr putting it slap bang in the middle of the last little pieces of the residential <,> inner city <.>i is a very good idea nah i think it's a JOKE i think it's just something that they've set in motion but if they were ever going to do it they should have done it when they started they just run <.>it they <.>just seems to me that they um tut got scared and didn't want to go any further and says we'll do it later and now they're committed to doing it later which is NOW and er <,> it's a mistake mm <,,> but i'm talking as a person who doesn't drive <.>so laughs easy for me <,> i think the wellington of the future will just be a big sort of <.>s theme parky thing <{1><[1>anyway all the shops will be moved out to the suburbs <{2><[2>and you'll come here and drink and dance till dawn and you know catch cheap taxis home again to the suburbs <[1>laughs <[2>we <.>won voc we want monorail that's what we want a monorail <{><[>yeah <&>7:00 <[>yeah <{><[>just like japan <[>laughs just like springfield mm mm <{><[>just go for it <[>word lisa asked that guy um excuse me sir can you tell me <.>why why a small urbanly centralised town like springfield needs a monorail laughs well lisa that's the most intelligent question i've ever been asked laughs and i can explain it to you but only you and i would understand the answer laughs yeah <,,><&>3 tut local bodies <,> poor old john burke eh getting snapped forging a signature on his own nomination but how did he get snapped <,> tut how did it ever come out i mean <{><[>it's just all of a sudden hit the headlines last week but no one ever said WHY he told anyone <[>it must <.>be yes that's true how did <.>it someone opened their mouth at the wrong place didn't they must of it's a pretty harmless offence he was going to get nominated and <.>he the voters elected him so <.>he it's <.>hardly you can say it was <{><[>word not a democratic word <&>8:00 <[>well it <.>was it was a woman <.>that that he signed it for tut she was <,> out of town but i mean <,> what's wrong with couriers what's wrong with faxes they had them back then true you know it just shows a complete lack of thought <,,><&>3 maybe it's a habit he's got into <{><[>all those different chequebooks he carries laughs <[>word it was <.>actually like i've seen it and it was a pretty good forgery apart from the fact that <.>y when you analyse it you can see <.>where where it's been <{><[>done slowly <.>and <.>and and <.>gone gone over bits you know and it was a bit wobbly because he was doing it slowly and stuff and the pen's been picked up and put down again on another bit but just to <.>a to a nonexpert you wouldn't pick it <,,><&>5 <[>done slowly in the paper they compared the two on the front page there but they um the photocopies were of different qualities right to the pictures um <&>9:00 <.>i i checked by looking at the type er and trying to compare that as well and it looked <.>like <,,> you know it really looked different even the type you know one <{><[>was really dark and bold and one was really faint and scratchy so <,> i'm sure they look much more alike when you actually get them written there on a piece of paper in front of you <[>oh right tut well i think one of the weirdest stories lately is that um <,,> is that kids from liverpool thing tut because you heard absolutely nothing about it until say a fortnight ago and since then there's been <,> dozens of newspaper articles about it there's <.>been there's even a t v programme on right now <{1><[1>which they must have been making <.>w well they must have been making that a long time ago <{2><[2>so why <.>not <[1>word i well it <.>was <[2>it was news in <.>australia it was news in australia um for a while because people had been <.>in stressed about it over there right <{><[>only just came over here <[>but i don't <.>know yeah i think <.>it's only fairly new here <&>10:00 still seems strange and they're all coming out of the woodwork and saying yes it was pretty horrible <,> and it sounds pretty horrible <,,><&>3 <.>but but they were <.>finally had the angle of um one of the social workers of the time who was saying that <{1><[1>sure a lot of these kids didn't seem to adjust very well but they were coming from an urban area in england and living in a rural area in <.>wellington er <.>in in new zealand and being expected to <,> you know work on a dairy farm get up at five in the morning and go and help milk the cows and stuff <{2><[2>like that tut and they <.>just were not even mildly equipped for it so <.>they they <.>just they were just looking at it and going oh well okay they haven't adjusted very well but that's obvious because it's such <.>a such a change of life style so they weren't that worried about it <.>when when kids were freaking out and saying we hate it here we hate it here sitting in trees for two days until someone comes and takes them away from it <&>11:00 <[1>word <[2>laughs mm <,,><&>3 but it's the dangers of <.>a of <.>a <.>t a job like that which is um requires <.>s only certain people can do a sort of job like that working with displaced <.>or or unhappy children and <,> not necessarily the people who CAN do it do it i mean it's not an easy job surely running a farm <,> full of rowdy young boys who've just been shipped over from liverpool after a war i mean it's not going to be one of the <.>things oh pick me to do that i'll do that you know i'm sure i'll get a huge salary no but they separated them all they'd only send one <.>to to any particular farm <,,> and um and it APPEARS that most of <.>the most of the foster families that were taking them in weren't um <,> doing it for any <,> beneficial purpose to their kids they were doing it for cheap labour for their farm right <{1><[1>now um which wasn't tut i think the plan when they were sent out here but then when you find out <.>that that some of the kids weren't even orphans <.>and <{2><[2>and they <.>were <[1>right <&>12:00 <[2>yeah they were being abused <.>and yeah no <{><[>one cared <,,> yeah <[>not fed er i told you a friend of mine todd's just taken over down at calder's next <.>to <.>i in john street the house next door to where we used to live oh right right it's a um half way house for young people oh yeah and um he's managing it he <{1><[1><.>gets he gets accommodation <.>and <.>and voc food and bills paid and he just has to hang round there <.>and and <.>v organise dinner rosters and make sure the rubbish gets put out and send tut people off to job interviews and oh i don't know yeah he's probably collecting all their benefits and putting it into his own private <{2><[2>bank account and giving them allowances or something by now but yeah he said it's REALLY hard work laughs he said he's living there well he's been there three weeks now and he hasn't had much fun at all laughs <,,> <&>13:00 <[1>right <.>t <[2>laughs yeah i don't think it's a <{><[>word <[>he says he prays for the social workers to come round come round social workers come round PLEASE come and sort these BASTARDS out laughs yeah <,,><&>9 well we were on a roll there yeah we were going for a while yeah it's <{><[>pretty impressive <[>and then that pregnant pause yeah but you see what what happened is we both started talking at the same time and then we had to breathe yeah yeah voc maybe we should have little cards my turn your turn or we could just like um you know there is a tried and true method well er for radios of course they <.>just <&>gestures <,> and that works because no one can hear it tut but um you know over or something like that or you know roger roger <&>14:00 laughs with you i'm with you i told you <.>how what um what happened to us when i recorded that thing on national radio did <.>i you know during <.>the the link bit to those songs yeah yeah well coughs i didn't have a script as such and i was <.>just i just had NOTES in front of me and i <{1><[1>was you know making up <.>the the way the sentences were put together <.>as as i went just from the notes and before i started he said to <.>us he says oh he says i don't really like that um i've had lots of times where people have come in with notes <.>and and pissed around for an hour and then we've finally had to script it out before we can actually get it done but fair enough go <.>and go and try it tut so i went in there and i was doing it and he <.>was <.>y you know it was going okay but every now and then i'd <,> say a sentence or a phrase or something and get a bit lost <{2><[2>half way through it or something <.>and and he'd say tut oh that's fine that's fine <.>we'll the first part of it sounded okay <.>that's that was you know quite a good thing to say so we'll go with THAT but um the last half of that <.>sentence yeah you lost it a bit so i'll just cue you in and you come in with the second half of that sentence <{3><[3>and i didn't have any earphones on then and he was just sitting in <.>his in his booth and he'd POINT at me and i'd have to come in with <,> the other half of <{4><[4>the sentence and try and make it sound <[1>yeah <[2>laughs <&>15:00 <[3>laughs <[4>laughs the same <&>15:29