<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:39 oh <.>y so you reckon that one of these <{1><[1>chicks is mara <,> playing the <{2><[2>guitar <[1>the one on the left <[2>HER? no no no the other one yeah her that one that's mara yeah i don't think so <,> no it is <.>sh it is her the one on the left from <{><[>holidaymakers eh <[>yep yeah yeah it is <,,> <&>1:00 tut um atawhai and them you know the new band they've got that woman on the left the one playing guitars is maori eh i can't see anybody playing the guitar oh <.>she cos all the others they dress like word <,,> oh yeah they're all a bunch of trendies <,,><&>3 word oh this is a dumb idea what getting taped no it's <.>okay no <{><[>look it's got to be as natural as possible and <.>just you're only complaining cos you can't listen to the sound on the t v <[>laughs no it's only ads laughs look will you just forget it's there sniffs how about some music no you're not allowed to have anything in the background nice compilation <{1><[1>laughs <,> oh <{2><[2>come on <[1>no music <[2>nazi course <&>2:00 <{><[>laughs what a nazi course <[>laughs cultural police no it's all to do with the quality of the tape <,,><&>3 word oh see <.>d you <.>we you haven't been to jurassic park they look really <.>s yeah they <{><[><.>look see they look real <[>real eh oh peter you're not even looking <{><[>laughs <[>what see <{><[>look see look it looks real eh <[>see they look really real oh <,,><&>3 definitely <,> looks realer than macdonalds food eh laughs realer laughs it's realer can we edit <{><[>that <[><.>that's laughs laughs sniffs <{><[>yeah <[>mm i like marshmallows is there more yeah yeah yeah choice choice usually get about four only four <{><[>cups of coffee out of that thing voc that's useless <[>four four or five HA better hurry then <.>sh laughs <&>3:00 <,,><&>3 what do you want what do i want do you want a huge big laughs boiling urn of <,> coffee this coffee is beautiful though i have to say it's better than instant instant's GROSS we've got um a coffee maker in um at varsity upstairs but it's um it's like hayley's you know how you pour the water in and you set up the filter it's the actual machine doesn't make coffee as nice as this one yeah? yeah easy <,,><&>3 right mind you that coffee i think's really good that <{1><[1>makes a big difference eh <{2><[2>makes you're getting a good flavour <[1>mm <[2>what what what what flavour is it laughs what flavour coffee is it hon <&>from kitchen coffee flavoured coffee <{><[>laughs <[>oh it's bloody albatross flavoured mate <,,><&>3 mm <,,><&>3 tut yeah <,> yeah old wally poor old wally the cat's been in the in the <&>4:00 wars <,,><&>4 <.>he's he's had his bally bags chopped off <,> so he shouldn't be fighting tut i don't think he does eh <{1><[1>he seems really er i think other cats <{2><[2>attacked him <[1>you <.>think <[2><.>he yeah actually cos um <,,> tut the um the two cats that walked into our house that <{1><[1>acting like they own the <{2><[2>place right and they just walk up to him and sort of <[1>yeah <[2>yeah i mean <{><[>he's <.>a yeah i mean <.>he he just sits there he wants to have a bit of a play <[>hassle him he just sits there he's got his eyes <{><[>wide open though <[>yeah he wants to have a play but they all sort of word yeah so he <.>has it's cos he's so mean and tough yeah such a big beautiful cat <,,><&>5 <{><[><.>so <[>they get a bit docile when they get their balls cut off <,,> laughs yeah wouldn't you i can <{><[>imagine <[>did you get THAT on tape <{><[>laughs <&>5:00 <[>laughs hey this is supposed to be as natural as possible what's happening word tell me what's happening down there word tut oh WHAT voc you mean word blonde mate blonde and CUTE <,,><&>3 that's what you want laughs very poor very poor i shall remember that <,,><&>6 mm <,,> so your essay's not due till the end of term sniffs yeah i'm impressed that you're going out to start it very impressed well i want to get it done before i start word cramming at the end yeah fifteenth huh is that the <.>last is that the day it's due oh is that the last day of term <&>6:00 <{1><[1>i don't even know the last day what <{2><[2>fifteenth of october <[1>yeah <[2>fifteenth yeah i know that very well cos i've got two major assignments due that day word <&>6:07 <&>discussion about taping not transcribed <&>6:58 OH WASTED <&>7:00 is it really <{><[>hard to drive those cars peter <[>clears throat fuck yes they're going two hundred miles an hour doesn't look like it eh oh well they're <{1><[1>not going two hundred <{2><[2>miles all the time laughs <[1>oh <[2>no not right there laughs be a bit slower what sort of cars are these probably word fastest and <.>i oh they're faster than normal cars laughs <{><[>fastest cars you would find on the track <[>laughs oh shit i don't drive okay? word <,,> <{><[>just as well see <.>look look <.>at look at that um nice power <,,><&>6 check this out <[>um what a nice colour hundred and fifty hundred and sixty sixty six <{><[>seventy <[><.>what's what's r p m revs per minute what's <{><[>t h r <[>sixty eight hundred and eighty a hundred and hundred and ninety hundred and ninety five oh almost made two hundred miles an hour <&>8:00 those cars yesterday made two hundred miles an hour eh <,> <{><[>and they <.>weren't they weren't even the fastest cars <[>yeah but did <.>they where were they i don't know <,> <{><[>no? <[>word car don't you want that sausage pete no you have it man oh okay can i have a bite a bite of the bread or the sausage the sausage <&>sound of something dropping laughs word laughs no don't tease wally oh <.>he's <{><[>he's satiated he ate blimmin how many however many bowls of biscats <,,><&>3 mm yum <,,><&>3 voc <[>yeah mm nice sausages eh <{><[>mm <[>yeah they're good where'd you get them from <{><[>foodtown <[>oh look at all that smoke yeah foodtown? no it wasn't it was new world mm just on word <&>9:00 they didn't <.>have i actually looked to buy some and see what foodtown had and they didn't have any word no <{><[><.>an <[>got a deli bar or anything they had a deli bar but they didn't <{><[>have any sausies <[>yeah that's pretty sad mm we're not going back to foodtown <{><[>laughs <[>where did you go where's foodtown in lower hutt oh i mean <{><[>you can <.>just <[>fuck that's miles away go down newtown man that's the new world down there's pretty good oh no no we went there cos we were going to go to see hemi oh right and we had tea there and came back home that's why we took so long <,> otherwise we would have had FOOD HERE waiting for you at the table <,,> well we got enough food there now to last for couple of weeks i think except for SPUDS man forgot the SPUDS did i did we need some yep we do get through a lot of spuds eh oh they're easy to make <{><[>word <[>and they're nice they're easy to <{><[>make laughs <[>laughs yeah? you know what i mean laughs <&>10:00 how do you make spuds very carefully see you don't even know your uncle probably does <{><[>he's a farmer <[>he knows everything laughs don't hassle my uncle man he's my mum's brother <,> laughs <,> he's <{><[>he's awesome <[>they look pretty neat eh those cars tut nice colour <,> yeah <{><[><.>that <[>what about the slide car set eh yeah we had one have you got it here oh i think we do oh CHOICE oh we had one when we were kids i LOVED playing <{><[>it eh <[>i never did have one yeah oh man <{><[>word <[>oh unlucky you had everything else laughs voc NOT there were only two in the family spoiled NOT yes we never had anything did too man we lived in a cardboard <{><[>box on the side of the road man <[>laughs that's <{><[>right <[>laughs in a paper bag yeah laughs LUXURY bloody luxury <&>11:00 we'll have to get some of those um no <{1><[1>monty python no <{2><[2>no no no no <[1>monty python <[2>yeah yeah yeah yeah live at drury lane mate it is THE <{><[>classic <[>word word oh hemi had blimmin he had bloody monty python i had the record <{><[>of that eh but i lost it <[>MOVIES special days when all his mates came over and they're all eggs from <{><[>mobil <[>oh <,> tut and they <.>h oh except there's a couple of them who are real AWESOME eh real hard case and they actually brought oh it was one where it was lancelot or king arthur or <{><[>oh yeah <[>yeah yeah <{1><[1>he chops off his arm <{2><[2>word <{3><[3>word <{4><[4>word <[1>and um <[2>oh that was SO <[3>laughs <[4>come back <{><[>here you coward all laugh <[>funny and then and then um the guy who was at this party that they had um actually had his helmet like he had all the gears he had a sword and he had a helmet that he'd made and he had <{><[>um <[>was it a monty python party yeah it was a monty python party and he had a suit of armour that he'd made out of tin foil and stuff and oh it was a crack up hey bud you could have been the um the catholic wife <&>12:00 i didn't watch it that far i <{><[>went out <[>oh did you see <{><[>word <[>i think i haven't seen it eh that's <{><[>holy grail eh <[>i went <.>out <{1><[1>i went <{2><[2><.>out <[1>OH that's FUNNY eh <[2>yeah i haven't seen it <{><[>eh <[>i went out <.>to on the town in lower hutt oh did you yeah i went to word <,> laughs gee but anyway <{><[>getting back to what we were talking about laughs <[>laughs what was that supposed to mean <{><[>laughs word <[>laughs no that <.>w it was really awesome the only problem with having those monty python parties is that ninety percent of voc hemi's mates were eggs what does he do at mobil he's um oh he was originally a chemist but now he's a um <,> technical advisor he's sort of the liaison person between head office and the and um the lab a science geek so they're for the formulas that they need to get organised or checking shit and things like that specifications that'd be real interesting eh learn heaps <{><[>YEAH REAL interesting <.>except <&>13:00 <[>oh no i was never good at chemistry oh no nor was i but i would voc like to be able to do it voc laughs yeah like the sound of <{><[>word <[>word clears throat he's good at what he does he's very good i mean he wouldn't have been put into his position so early or or taken back cos he worked there before he went to <.>ch to england tut and then um he he after two years he decided to do his big o e and so he left completely no <.>hindr hint of him going back and then mum died and then he came back and there was no <{><[>job there for him so he went back again to england after about six months then he came back to new zealand and only because he'd written to mobil to see if there was any chance of him getting a job and they said yes you can come back straight away word we'll hold a position open for you <[>clears throat wicked tut so <{><[>i mean <.>m jobs are hard to come by in those companies really <&>14:00 <[>good mm i would have thought so and so he went IN he was there for <{><[>at the most a year and then they put him gave him a promotion technical advisor <,> yeah he's been over sent overseas twice <[>word hundred and ninety <,> where did they send him bud um they sent him to the states voc <{><[>what's it called yeah he went to new york <[>to the STATES who owns mobil oh god i don't know i think it's american eh yeah they've got mobil new zealand mobil australia mobil <,> the states but it's not <.>c it's called something like texaco or yeah one of those big companies b p british petroleum <,,> clears throat old um oh yeah to new york that's cool yeah he's um he's been lucky oh cos he works so hard but he's not he's he works too much um up until a couple of months ago and then they <.>s they wouldn't allow him to have an after <&>15:00 hours card to get in for security so he he's forced to only do the set forty hours and so they that's also meant word taking a couple of weeks off word so he's cruising he was <.>with then in the beginning of the year one of their main dudes out in the lab was involved in a car accident a DRUNKEN driver at eight oclock in the morning wicked eh <&>15:22