<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>3:12 tell me more about your what are you going to do in in america oh just travel round and see the sights <{><[>and and stuff <[>what places are you going to go to um well me and suzanne are going to buy a car <{><[>between us <[>oh that'll be cool because these people we met the person i met says he's going to take some time off work and travel with us in this <{><[>car <[>daniel right yes yeah and um so <.>w we're going to go to new york and have some coffee <{><[>cos new york's cool <[>oh coffee going to go to new york and um i want to go to new york and chicago cos there's this really cool place in chicago where they filmed a bit of um <,> of back draft and there's <{1><[1>this really nice view and i want to see that view and um that's probably <{2><[2>oh i don't know <[1>oh yeah mm <[2>how will you find the view <,> <{><[>how will you find the view <[>oh i'll find it laughs just by travelling round and asking people i suppose if <{1><[1>knowing america <.>they'll knowing america they'll have this big sign saying <{2><[2>this is the view <&>4:00 that was used in back draft cos that's what they do they take you on tour buses round l a and they go along this highway and they go this lane was the lane that they drove down in lethal weapon three <{3><[3>and everyone everyone goes woo they DO it's so pathetic it's really sad l a's a rude place to go it's quite good to look around but it's rude if you think that it's going to be all nice and everything cos it's just all highways and all laughs all people living in little houses with five cars <[1>yeah we'll take the video <[2>laughs <[3>laughs oh really tut and bars on their windows oh WOW and like and beverly hills is really gross like you know our suburbs with all our trees and nice things they'd think that we lived in just like big mansions they think that the whole of new zealand was beverly hills <{1><[1>because there's is <.>all yeah they don't have trees and things so beverly hills is just the same houses as we have here but <.>th except for up in the hills where the big stars live they're the huge ones but just around on the on <{2><[2>the normal streets you know where brenda and dylan <{3><[3>and and that off beverly <{4><[4>hills eh <[1>honestly? <[2>yeah <[3>yeah <[4>yeah well dylan's house was pretty <{><[>slack <[>yeah well it's just the same as <.>w as going and driving round you know where you <&>5:00 know tawa or khandallah or um plimmerton paremata paremata or somewhere mm maybe not like <.>cran cannon's creek laughs but laughs NO cannon's creek's a bit like the places that are on the highway in the on the highways you know with the bars on the windows and things oh wow um tut yeah cos suzanne's down tonight she <{1><[1>she flies in at eight oclock yeah and um then <.>she we're home at nine <{2><[2>and i'll be at my i'm catching the eight oclock train home so i'll go over and get her <[1>oh is she <[2>yeah yeah and um so it's just going to be <{><[>so much fun oh she's just come down cos it's her dad's fiftieth on saturday night just round from me paremata <[>so what's she doing here where do her family live oh do they oh okay so how long's she staying for the weekend? tut she's going back on monday cos we're going to um wanganui on sunday to go and see these people that we met in bali and they're in wanganui yeah <{><[>oh these these kiwis <[>why are they in wanganui oh okay yeah called jan and lenny oh yeah they were the they were the older couple <{><[>in the photo <[>yeah the photos <{><[>yep <[>yep yep we're going there and then we're going to <&>6:00 palmerston for the night cos our friend jenny's moved there oh yeah jenny knowles and um we're going to stay with her for the night and then come down and then hoon into wellington take her into the airport and she flies out at twelve on monday gee so she's going to do that all that in just like <.>th the next three days oh but um you're coming to the park royal tomorrow night to meet her eh yes well what's happening cos you haven't told me about <{><[>the park royal <[>well tut from about one oclock <{1><[1>just go in yeah <{2><[2>till kind of <[1>in the afternoon <[2>well i'm working what time do you finish i finish at nine well <,> oh what time do you start two okay <{><[>what about <[>i can come in at one one yeah just go into the reception and ask for suzanne comrie's room <{><[>number and they'll tell you it and just go up to the room and knock on the door <[>yeah yeah yeah it's quite difficult isn't it i know i'm really going <.>t how about <.>if just what if i'm the only one there and i just knock and she goes who are you <{><[>coming into my room um and i'll go rah party <[>laughs i'll be there laughs i'll be there no there'll be heaps of people there oh okay okay <{><[>that's cool <[>suz will be there <{><[>and <[>yeah <,,> will marie <.>b marie will you be there then or will you be going <{><[>later <[>where will you be <{><[>marie <[>i'll be at woolworths tawa <{><[>oh <[>you're not allowed to talk cos this is our conversation <&>7:00 that wasn't marie's voice that was me pretending <{1><[1>to be marie pretty good eh um yeah and so so what are what are you doing just having drinks and stuff <{2><[2>in her in her room how come she's staying at the park royal <[1>laughs <[2>yeah oh just the friday night cos um <,> she wants to just for you know some <{><[>just a bit flash bit flash <[>just a bit flash yeah is she going to be right up the top or um oh yeah she'll get a good room because you know she used to work there and stuff mm but yeah so it should be quite cool and james' working room service in twelve from seven in the morning till twelve in the afternoon so he's going to find out her room and leave heaps of like wine and <{1><[1>that sort of alcohol and food and <{2><[2>stuff in there <[1>oh cool <[2>yeah oh that will be good eh yes i'll definitely come over at about what time did you say you were going to start having probably about twelve oh yeah OH that's cool that's <{><[>cool <[>probably about midday midday yes cos i finish varsity at eleven i've just got one <{><[>tutorial <[>yeah well i can meet you up at varsity tomorrow okay cos i've got um a this american guy is coming for modern poetry and talking yeah what time do you finish varsity <&>8:00 um i don't know but i'll see you like meet you at twelve in the quad or something yeah but you're not allowed to laugh cos i'll be in my work clothes no no no no you're not <.>lau you're not allowed to laugh cos i'll be in my um just every day clothes i laugh at you anyway yeah true <{><[>laughs <[>i'm laughing now ha ha ha have we <.>foot spoken for fifteen minutes yet <,,><&>4 well it's twenty past and we got here about five past shall we make a shall we do a little sign off okay well this is us we're about to go um OH look hark there's a thailand poster on the wall oh goodness that's nice isn't it just makes me think of thailand let's go and book our tickets to thailand because that's where we're going yes we might get on one of those little fruit boats and go down to <{><[>word <[>there's not much room on them though look <{><[>you can only fit there's only room for one person you can only go on one if you wear one of those rice hats that those nice cane hat things though <[>no there's not oh and wear a blue top <{><[>you've got one <[>i mean you have to wear a blue top yes they all seem to be wearing blue <.>do oh yesterday i went to <.>k um kilbirnie cos <&>9:00 apparently there's a really good material shop there yeah got the material for my skirt for my brother's wedding oh what's the material like oh it's really cool it's this really cool brown colour yeah and blue kind of like that woman's shirt at the top voc on the right <{><[>hand corner <[>yeah sort of cornflower blue kind of yeah <.>bl and um this really cool brown and this kind of really cool it's really cool kind of light colour oh okay kind of yeah but it's striped and then this kind of dark burgundy <{><[>and it's word and has its skirt down to there and then <[>oh straight or yeah straight <{1><[1>and er and then i'm having um my hat i'm getting a hat and it it goes out like that and underneath it's got this stripe and then it's got all <{2><[2>sort of dark burgundy on the top <[1>oh okay yeah it's like you know <[2>oh that will be so cool and what kind of top are you going to <{><[>wear <[><.>to <.>i it's oh my auntie's designing it but the sleeves go out like that oh so they've got um what like um bell <{><[>bell things yeah <[>yeah bell <.>bo yeah and i'm getting some i don't know some shoes mike's bringing me the shoes from london wow you're going to be all flash when's your when's the wedding laughs waitangi day <&>10:00 oh that's nice isn't it waitangi day pretty cultural oh real cultural and things and where's it at wilton house oh that's nice isn't it that's so nice cos they're not getting married in a church they're getting married in the lawn of wilton house oh okay who can so you can have anybody marrying you there eh yeah yeah sniffs <{><[>that'll be nice <[>have you been to wilton house i've never been there yeah i've been there before for a function when i was about ten is it nice it's really nice it's really nice <{><[>it's usually for weddings <[>yeah word yeah usually for weddings i saw the brochures of it and it looks quite nice cos you can you can have the wedding outside and then the reception on the inside and stuff yeah yeah that'll be cool that'll be so nice don't they also use that for um like you can go there for breakfast and lunches and <{1><[1>things i think they do cos i saw an ad on t v it was right after the natural glow ad funny that laughs which was right before the suzanne clip ad <{2><[2>which was right after the which was right um after the butterfly <.>wi windows ad thing have you seen <{3><[3>have you seen those laughs word excuse me they have the patio the little glass sliding door to go to the patio and then they have this <&>11:00 HUGE big <{4><[4>curtain thing which is so rude it doesn't even go <{5><[5>with it <[1>mm <[2>and the word word <[3>oh my god that's word <[4>laughs <[5>have you seen the mirror <{><[>over the mirrors and stuff the only thing that could look mildly decent is is the wall hangings <[>yeah yeah oh <{1><[1>or um yeah or the bed thing if you lived if you were like krystal and blake and you lived <{2><[2>in a dynasty house you could have that thing over your bed or something <{3><[3>but <.>in <[1>by itself <[2>yeah <[3>but NOT it's just <.>ridic <{1><[1>and then they go they go make children's rooms more exciting <{2><[2>and it's like <[1>yeah and that's the other thing <[2>oh and there's this huge god that would scare a kid that it looks like a big word explosion thing <{><[>shit laughs it's so disgusting <[>laughs laughs yeah it is so gross they are really eh if anyone gave me those i'd just shoot them <&>11:30