<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:09 so what are the alkaline foods just all the alkaline foods laughs inhales say what? all the alkaline foods are basically the vegetables and <{><[>stuff like that <[>er vegetables fruit a couple of nuts mushrooms and stuff like that but i'm not allowed mushrooms cos i'm allergic to yeast and <&>sighs word laughs oh no <{><[>i can't see this being successful somehow <[>oh no it'll be okay you're getting conversation laughs words pouring out of our mouths i know but do you have any idea how horrific a four person conversation is to transcribe why just because <{><[>it's hard to <[>BAD well it's hard enough when two people are overlapping each other and and you know talking at the same time try it with four people <{><[>yeah okay <.>it's <[>mm <&>1:00 <&>recording cuts out for ten seconds yeah plug's in now and it must be really <{><[>hard laughs <[>laughs oh genius <{><[>he's good like that <[>well yeah did you do maths as part of a science degree or something pardon? was your maths part of a science <.>degree yeah see it shows eh <{><[>laughs <[>that's <.>quite yeah that's quite clever actually except of course <{><[>if it knocks someone's head <[>word <[>word so now i'm going to have to sit there and make all these transcriber's notes at this point in time someone is actually plugging the microphone to the laughs to the <{><[>lightshade in the lounge <[>DO YOU actually have to <.>put do you actually have to put all that junk in yeah you do if you know it yeah for sure cos otherwise people are going what the hell are these people talking about <{><[>and they've got to you know <.>if if you've got that background knowledge you've got to put it in <[>laughs yeah laughs so it was quite rainy today wasn't it <{><[>laughs <[>laughs laughs <[>word <{><[>oops <[>i suppose cathryn's heard a few things about the weather <{><[>laughs <&>2:00 <[>laughs no actually i think the most riveting conversation i've had recently was um <,> transcribed recently was about ants and then it was about clears throat buying material it was just full on man i was just so excited i was <{><[>beside myself <[>oh word laughs did a bit of shopping there jo <,> what'd you buy um placemats and napkins they're really groovy <{><[>for my mother <[>these for christmas or yeah they're for my mother and roger <,> and oh my brother's got a <,> shirt and my sister's got some lingerie and that's shopping list okay well that's food but i wouldn't want someone to read the list or anything laughs oh so you bought all those presents today for your family oh some <{><[>of them <[>all in one whack no not quite <,,> that's really good i'm really pleased with myself except it's all sitting on my credit card so it's next month's problem now <{><[>lovely <[>yeah mm that's all right if you can do that <{><[>no laughs no <[>some of us can't like tax deferral <.>and <&>3:00 laughs all of that i'm working on that one <{><[>laughs <[>laughs i've got the ultimate deferral student loan <{><[>mm <[>yeah well i've got one of those sitting there yep it's very nice <,> can't wait are you having money whacked out of your pay at the moment yeah ARE you yeah <{><[>how much <[>they do it automatically mm you're a <{><[>g ed code <[>voc that's the one yep so they whack money out of you straight away i went down to where i was getting paid and <.>they it's a big company <.>that <&>name of company who does all my leasing um and they said we've never done a student loan before had to look it up so they got the book out yeah voc oh yeah that's how much we take off have they got lots with the nineteen graduates that they hired at mckabe's <{><[>this year <[>yeah laughs mm have you all got loans no we haven't most people i went with don't but most of the people that went down to varsity down south <{><[>also <[>mm yeah they do <,> but most of <&>4:00 the vic ones all lived at home obviously <,,> mm quite fortunate if you can live with the wrinklies <,,> no <{><[>word <[>we have to hassle patrick by the way because he lives at home and gets all his food cooked for him so we have to hassle him <{><[>scum <[>who makes lunches you used to get your <.>mak lunches made for you too didn't you yeah your brother <{><[>used to make lunches <[>oh i've started buying lunches <{><[>like those chips at vicki's <[>disgusting laughs you know those chips at vicki's <{><[>mm <[>yeah <.>the with the sour cream with it mm best chips on campus two fifty <,> i used to go through quite a few of those what couldn't stand your brother's lunches <{><[>yeah <[>laughs <[>laughs mm yeah mum stopped making them for some reason laughs oh the hardship yeah <{><[>laughs it's sad eh <[>laughs voc oh terrible i'm heartbroken already yeah i reckon laughs see most of my friends <.>that i went to vic with DO live at home really mm god i'm about the only one of <&>5:00 them flatting really aren't i well yeah you are that's pretty sad really it is bit <{><[>word <[>and who'd been working for two years is still living at home shit REALLY mhm what a TRAGIC lifestyle <,> heidi's still living at home she's at the end of her first year work but she doesn't want to leave until she's done her final qualifying exam mhm but she pays a hundred a week board shit voc yeah she gets whacked still quite cheap though really yeah it's still cheaper than flatting well <.>n not a LOT cheaper than <{><[>flatting but still cheaper than <[>yeah yeah <{><[>oh all the comforts <[>yeah there's food and mm <{><[>and her parents parents go away most weekends <[><.>yeah coming home to a cooked meal is nice yeah laughs <{><[>spoken like a true connoisseur right? <[>laughs <[>word yeah i know these things and desserts too that's right <{><[>voc <[><.>i i couldn't stand my mother's cooking any more <,> you know she's been cooking for so long and it's the old gone senile at cooking <{><[>laughs <&>6:00 <[>chops and potatoes and <{><[>soggy veg <[><.>ev <.>ev every day it's minted potatoes <{1><[1>and soggy beans <{2><[2>and a piece of <,> you know over well done meat <[1>voc <[2>laughs voc word day after day <,,> she does an all right roast oh yeah damn good roast <{><[>laughs <[>laughs that's why i go round there if roast word is any good mm you go round for dinner for a roast laughs every other night it's out you know macdonalds or um cook at home laughs macdonalds besides all of which you get used to your own cooking style <,> you know like <.>w when i went home after i'd been cooking for myself for a while and you go home and you go WOW yeah is THIS what i used to eat <{><[>laughs <[>word it's just laughs bizarre <{><[>word <[>wow or gasp <&>pronounced gaesp <{><[>is this word <[>laughs no wow usually i was quite surprised my mother's has changed heaps though because <,> she's living with someone that's really well off so they have all these things like you know <&>7:00 fresh prawns in the fish <{1><[1>markets and all those kinds of yummy <{2><[2>things <[1>mm <[2>laughs really it's really yummy food now mm not the scrambled eggs and baked beans we used to get on those nights she was feeling really hassled laughs <,> pity you can't go there more often really isn't it it is really mm i got a postcard from her though <{1><[1>and she said that they're going up to bangkok for three years and there's free trips for the family included within <{2><[2>the package <[1>mm <[2>REALLY so i <{><[>can <.>get i'll probably manage to get at least one a year if i wanted <[>WICKED is that roger's family as well yeah but <{><[>i mean they haven't gone to australia for like two years so <[>kids oh okay i've been the only one using them voc and um yeah they have a big flash apartment with a maid and a chauffeur and tennis courts and gym and swimming pool and laughs far out that's all right word sounds good to me MM <,,> i can't see <{><[>what <.>she <&>8:00 <[>and chef as well NO no chef i don't know if maids cook do maids cook laughs do anything you want them to laughs well she's got to do something my mother <{><[>so i guess she does cook voc <[>word work's hard to get yeah well of course he works eighteen hours daily so that's meant lots of fun shit <,,> voc <,> eighteen hours oh he works really long hours i mean it's okay for him he loves what he does <,> he doesn't mind what does he DO management consultant <,> information technology <,> for <&>name of company probably knows my dad <,> dad's pretty heavily into infotech <,> gosh works on amazing projects <{><[><.>m works on amazing projects <[>the what? mm <&>9:00 redesigned the computer system for <&>name of organisation really last year it's really interesting god so he <{><[>now knows all these things about australian national security <[>voc laughs word system clears throat yeah he knows how to lock me out of the system so i can't get in the country laughs my dad's just got a contract with um <&>name of organisation but i'm not exactly <.>w <.>sh you know sure what for because you know you go so what's happening dad and he says oh yeah pass <{><[><.>n <.>t he never tells you exactly what's going on i don't think he knows himself <[>yeah <{><[>laughs <[>word <[>i know it's something to do with <&>name of organisation does he work by himself does he work for a company he's contracted to a firm called o p k at the moment but what exactly they do apart from having something to do with computers i really don't know but he <.>was i mean he's been in various places over the last few years and he's always you know redesigned computer systems and things not that he knows anything about computers or professes to but <{><[>laughs <[>just a good love work word word good pay <{><[>rate? <[>fairly responsible <&>10:00 <[>laughs yeah excellent pay rate <,> mm <,> just amazing eh how well they get paid GOD yeah <,> my ex <.>flatmate oh two of my ex flatmates were involved in that kind of thing one of them's a <,> consultant for delphic new zealand mm and she gets paid more than i'm going to next year laughs within her first three months <{1><[1>plus a bonus scheme and then the other one works for treasury <{2><[2>and he gets paid whacking great amounts of money as well <[1>mm <[2>yeah yeah? it's nice man would be good we're DEFinitely in the wrong field is rachel quite good there was she very word yeah i think she is quite good mm she's really intelligent surprising <,> from her looks laughs dizzy blonde isn't this fascinating <{><[>laughs <[>mm i was just going to say that word one thing <{><[>laughs <[>laughs say what you like <{><[>it doesn't matter <[>laughs laughs for the purposes of anonymity all names are changed so you will <{><[>not even be identified <[>oh word oh wow what's my code name <{><[>laughs <[>laughs whatever i happen to think <{><[>of when i come across it laughs <[>word <&>11:00 hugh hugh yeah word dougal laughs voc so do you make up all the code names mm <,> <{><[>yep <[>mm so if you decide you don't like the person do you give them a really horrible name or things like that no actually you're supposed to um you're supposed to think of something that's pretty much the same syllable pattern and the same stress pattern if you can so you could be dougal you might be <{><[>you wouldn't have been ignatius <[>laughs <{><[>laughs laughs <[>yeah sure i don't know laughs oh it'd be quite hard for some of them though oh takes you ages to think of them like <,,> swallows cos you get a lot of names that you can shorten so you've got to think of another name that's the same syllable pattern that you can shorten as well just in case they do it later on oh shit pretty shocking laughs these difficulties <&>12:00 eh? the difficulties yes <,,> so what do you want to do with your maths degree don't know i sat an exam today g r s mm to go out to the states possibly do some study over there <,> um otherwise i'll carry on working did you spend <{><[>four years at vic or <[>mm pardon? did you spend four years yeah word <{><[>word <[>three years and a year honours yeah and if i go overseas it'll be another five years you know richard thomson? richard thomson yeah philip roberts i know philip roberts laughs i'm an acquaintance of philip roberts oh yeah he's pretty intelligent eh yeah done pretty well oh how do you know these guys oh cos <&>name of school <{><[>we were friends at school <[><&>name of school oh yeah oh richard thomson he's left been and gone yeah i've seen him in a suit down town yeah working for some computer firm or something yuk mm <&>13:00 he's like oh incredible i think in form two he was doing algebra word when we use to start i think <,> oh not form two <.>s <.>star yeah standard two and we were supposed to start i think in um form four or form three something like that <{><[>yeah <[>mm <&>13:14