<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>tape one side one <&>16:10 oh did you see that jed brophy rode his motorbike off the stage <{1><[1><{2><[2>into the auditorium <[1>laughs <[1>laughs <[2>yeah and <.>he he <{><[>why was he riding a motorbike <[>i met <.>hi i saw him today <{><[>downtown <[>well <.>it it's raging on you <{1><[1>know like voc the <{2><[2>ladies night two <[1>mm <[2>word i don't think we've seen <{><[>it <[>and um in his strip scene he rides down a ramp from high up on stage down to stage level and goes down the ramp and across the stage and out the side and i think what <{><[>might normally happen he just freewheels but apparently what happened is he accidentally he slipped it into gear <[>oh that's right <{><[>oh <[>and came straight down the ramp and straight off the stage and into the first row of the audience <{><[>shit really <[>but noone was sitting there mm noone was <{><[>sitting there thank god <[>noone sitting in the front row <{><[>shit <[>mm <{><[>what theatre <[>and he um downstage and he severely bruised his leg or something <&>17:00 no he broke it <{><[>no <[>no he didn't break it he didn't? <{><[>no it was in the newspaper that he broke it but um <[>well well <{><[>i tell you <[>they <{><[>were wrong <[>one in the dominion would you like to know something very interesting wayne and i were walking down the <{1><[1>road this morning <{2><[2>wayne and i were talking about how awful this was and how irresponsible <{3><[3>downstage was to have a SET that made people almost kill themselves and this GUY walks past us complete stranger i thought he was a wino he was like quite badly dressed and um laughter <[1>word <[2>mm <[3>mm oh no no but you know <{1><[1>he sort of <{2><[2>looked like a wino <[1>gosh <[2>laughs he <{><[>had a tattoo <[>word <[>and he sort <{1><[1>of SMELT like a <{2><[2>wino <[1>word <[2>laughs he did not <{><[>SMELL like a wino laughs <[>he did so look like <{><[>he was a wino <[>laughs <[>laughs you <{><[>just imagined the smell <[>ANYway <{><[>shut up wayne <[>anyway anyway and it <{1><[1>was really interesting because <.>see he walked past heard our conversation and said oh yeah isn't that awful the poor bugger broke his leg or something and wayne engaged him in conversation and i thought <{2><[2>wayne must know him and i was standing there feeling really embarrassed going who is wino that wayne <{3><[3>is talking to <&>18:00 inhales and we walked all the way down the bottom of brooklyn hill together <{4><[4>until wayne finished his conversation and they said goodbye and i said inhales why were you talking to that stranger and i <{5><[5>thought it was a very interesting phenomenon because as a young woman i would not feel comfortable talking to a man that looks like a wino who's discussing something from the newspaper <{6><[6>but wayne as a young man <[1>laughs <[2>laughs <[3>laughs <[4>voc <[5>mm <[6>cos i feel i feel comfortable talking with other runts you see yeah <{><[>other winos <[>oh <&>with a rise fall intonation but don't you think that's interesting i would never i mean if someone i thought <.>i voc when he walked past and said something or other about <{1><[1>it i thought oh he must be drunk or he's just making he's just sort of going oi <{2><[2>oi you know and then i didn't realise that he was actually commenting on what we were saying and <{3><[3>wayne had picked him up <[1>coughs <[2>laughs <[3>he was nice <{><[>friendly fellow <[>yes he was probably a nice <{><[>word <[>he was lovely he was he was really <{><[>nice <[>what how prejudged yeah <{><[>prejudged <[>mm <{><[>gaw <[>laughs <[>disgusting one of my <{1><[1>word <{2><[2>word word <[1>word <[2>well i er well how <{><[>ethnocentric <[>well <{><[>yes eco not ethnocentric <[>laughs <{><[>no <[>indeed mm laughs <&>19:00 pass the bikkies <,> please fine dear <&>from kitchen stephanie <{><[>word <&>probably asks where plates are <[>they're actually not opened yet <{><[><&>from kitchen word <[>my god who's are <{><[>those <[>just down under <{1><[1>where all the <{2><[2>the glasses <{3><[3>and cups are kept <{4><[4>just somewhere down there <[1>they're mine <[2>shall i keep one for myself <[3>really? <[4>shall i open this <{><[>yes i bought it for you lot to eat <[><&>from kitchen word did you the pots are up in the <{><[>bottom cupboard <[>we threw them away do you know i'm <{><[>going to singapore <[>word i think word you never are laughs only for three <{><[>weeks <[>you going to laughs laughs no i'm going to singapore for ten days to um do shakespeare to the um <&>next utterance addressed to cat sit <{><[>to um <[><.>you're you are not <{><[>singaporeans <[>singaporean singaporean teenagers now no <{><[>nasty comments <[>word oh they'll very serious about it oh <{><[>they are apparently they know shakespeare better than er <[>word yes <{><[>can't be <[>shakespeare <{><[>laughs <[>laughs <[>laughs they'll just better than they've interpreted word for shakespeare to have ruined it they WILL take it seriously so how did you get that oh <{><[>it's part of <[>cushy little number what word how did you get that cushy number <&>20:00 well <{><[>it's not entirely cushy unfortunately <[>word word much better <{><[>word <[>this guy came to drama <{><[>school just before we left and auditioned all of us <,,> <[>laughs you stood up and said lychee or not lychee others laugh and you got the job laughs coughs word on the coffee <{><[>mug word <[>are you complaining i'm <{><[>complaining to arnott's <[>you get a whole word it's not not fair word i'm complaining to arnott's well and and so it's a paid job three hundred and fifty dollars a week so it's just paid <{1><[1>and they pay you fare <{2><[2>though don't they and they pay your accommodation i hope <[1>word <[2>just paid excuse me it's more than get yeah but they <{><[>pay <.>the they pay a forty dollar retainer for food and stuff once you're over there <[>oh thank you a day? mm well that'll if <{><[>you went to the night markets and things <[>oh <[>oh <{><[>yum <[>you get you go downtown and you you'll you'll you'll make on that for food you'll you'll live like a king on the smell of oily on the smell of <.>an loincloth <{><[>laughs <[>laughs and um <&>21:00 <{><[>laughs <[>laughs coughs word laugh at jealousy <{><[>laughs <[>laughs but i've got to get myself up to auckland coughs <{><[>oh <[>and down again look when do you go word <{><[>word <[>ninth of february word <{><[>word word cos you can get an <.>air some sort of airfare <[>coughs wayney word can't you get really enormously cheap ones if you book miles <{><[>in advance <[>yeah i was just about to say for god's <{><[>sake book now word completely nonrefundable on <.>all all sorts of awful conditions that you don't need to worry about and you go in for the major cheapo go into student travel <[>book now word yeah yeah <.>but if you get a superthrifty you get some phenomenal <{><[>discount <[>well how much <{><[>would it be for a return <[>it works out just over a hundred dollars <{1><[1>doesn't it if <{2><[2>you <[1>for a <[2>yeah <{1><[1>i'm sure if yeah oh <{2><[2>yeah each way <[1>each way <[2>oh yes you paying <{><[>something like that <[>well i mean wayne the normal price is like two hundred and fifty <{><[>mm <[>yeah but if lots of people are going up um <{><[>if there's lots of us it's cheaper to <[>yeah but if book now they'd give you superthrifty but if a few people are going up wouldn't it be cheaper to um <{><[>take other <.>f form of transport <[>you only <.>nee oh yeah it would be if you can word i actually <{><[>disagree <[>what you'll hire a car <{><[>possibly <[>because <[>oh do you want to <.>f do you want to drive up because um you know hertz and avis and that want their cars relocated and all you have to do is pay petrol you get the car for free and if you put <{><[>petrol in it gets expensive <[>don't want to laughs <{><[>mm and petrol costs hardly anything <[>do do want to drive or do you not like flying i don't mind flying <{><[>it's that <[>it's the money oh it's the money it's the a hundred and ten dollars each way oh cos you got to get yourself to auckland mm but wayne i <{1><[1>would also estimate it would COST you a hundred <{2><[2>dollars by the time you'd paid <{3><[3>petrol and meals and possibly even a night's accommodation <[1>word <[2>each? <[3>yeah yeah mm you may as well fly there in half an hour or an hour however long it takes <,> <{1><[1>cos i always found it <.>when in <.>the <.>the time i went from dunedin to wellington <{2><[2>and we left at five in the morning and we arrived here at eleven oclock at night and we spent so much money on petrol and FOOD <{3><[3>and drink we may as well have flown i <{4><[4>i honestly kid you not the difference is something like you know ten or twenty <{5><[5>bucks <[1>probably right <[2>mm <[3>laughs <[4>laughs <[5>um <&>22:00 i think it would majorly depend on whether <{><[>on whether how many people are going up if there was a group of four or five in a car but i don't think they'll <&>cat meows <[>depends a bit on word are you the only person going no from the drama school i think there's three of us going now who have ended up going he offered it to about five of us but but only three of us have ended up going who auditioned you someone from singapore someone from australia it's this guy benjamin someone or other <{><[>from australia who came over from australia cos <.>he i don't think he can get um cheap actors over in australia <[>oh <{><[>laughs <[>laughs they've all done their chip so <.>he's he's doing them over in he's decided to take some actors from new zealand sofia johns is going though and she's fantastic so it'll be good to do some stuff with <{><[>her <[>oh it'll be wonderful <{><[>wonderful very humid <[>word yeah it's only three weeks or something it's <{><[>about two two and half weeks in um auckland rehearsing in auckland and then and it'll be really good to spend some time in auckland <[>too bloody long mm and then um ten days over there so what can go <{><[>wrong really <,> with the <&>23:00 <[>oh word probably picking up all the <{><[>desperate real big men word <[>it'll be really hot in singapore cos it's <{1><[1>their <{2><[2>summer <[1>mm <[2>mm oh right it'll be about ninety degrees <{><[>word <[>and stephanie tells me i have er insurance so oh <{><[>god yes <[>that'll be another another er hundred and something or other <{><[>dollars <[>mm sorry what was that <{><[>insurance? <[>insurance <.>and <.>and and um we had a huge argument in a cafe it wasn't an <{><[>argument <[>you've got to get insurance i wonder what <{><[>benjamin's making out of this <&>cat meows <[>word i don't know it just seems <{1><[1>an awful lot you have do but i suppose they they <{2><[2>think that they're going to give you a wonderful time in <{3><[3>singapore word <[1>i don't know very much <[2>coughs a trip to singapore <[3><.>bu i don't know if it'll be a wonderful time by the sound of things it'll be excruciatingly hard work mm yeah it's definitely hard work when you're in hospital <&>cat meows apparently you perform to HUGE amounts of students all at once like thousands or something and what are you doing um <,> what play we're doing um er merchant of venice <,> doing the whole thing rehearsing it in two weeks <&>24:00 great and parts of um midsummer night's dream and what are YOU doing what part are you <{><[>doing <[>um forgotten his name now um <{><[>graziano <[>word brati graziano word oh no he's a big fellow he um sounds like the <{><[>mafia <[>laughs <[><.>what what did you think it was mm b brati no it's gra no said with gra with a zed graziano gra <&>pronounced with rolled r graziano <&>pronounced gratsi aano a <.>one friend of antonio's do you know it at all <{><[>no <[>no no i can't remember <&>cat meows it all very well wayne what are you doing it's quite a small part really what is the play word <{><[>word <[>merchant of venice well <&>name tell you what it means graziano forgot what his name is gary gary boy sorry word brain <{><[>laughs <[>laughs oh there must be an allowance for a flat with two boys yeah all right <,> i'll let you off <{><[>i've <.>become <[>he was here all the other day calling him richard laughs which i thought was rather sweet yes i know and i called him roy word <{><[>laughs <[>laughs i would have helped you out but i <&>25:00 caught you sort of looking at me you know sort of focusing in the middle distance for a reference point while you remembered the name probably was sort of bleary eyed and that's only because he hasn't got his glasses laughs i know the brain goes to pot without them i know it's funny and everything's affected word and now that i need them for reading <.>i i feel really ODD when i look at something and it's not in focus and i can't read it like i sort of word <&>biscuit packet next to microphone being moved obscures speech to wayne's bloody i was doing a nonbroadcast video word i <{><[>word <[>it's like being <{><[>word <[>and so wearing these bloody um huge and i had to their costume person didn't really have any glasses that were right for what i was doing so she said oh why don't wear mine and i ended up wearing hers of <{1><[1>course you couldn't see so <{2><[2>while we were doing the um word the tapes she was like standing sort of waiflike in the background waiting <{3><[3>for her glasses to come back <.>and at the end of it i go up and yeah oh thank you word <{4><[4>laughs <[1>oh my god laughs <[2>oh right <[3>staring in to the middle distance <[4>what <.>wa <.>wha this is for a radio broadcast <&>26:00 no no no <.>nonbroa nonbroadcast word like a video which is not going on television <{><[>oh <[>for things like someone <{><[>else would like a tea <[>promotional sort of stuff <{><[>this was this was some some sort of a video to um <&>next utterance is answer to stephanie's question yeah i'll have another one <[>oh right coughs mum? coughs to um to show to show people what you've done a sort advertising no no no this one's to um er to dramatise a er a new act that's come into legislation or something so that people can understand it <&>26:30