<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>4:07 was the engagement party any good yeah um charmaine was there yeah? mm walked in and and like um i didn't know the guy <{1><[1>and i didn't know the girl either so i was just kind of thinking oh yeah laughs and then um then i saw charmaine she walked straight past me like i was sitting in a chair and she just walked straight past me there wasn't that many people there there was only about a hundred people there and i thought voc i couldn't tell if it was her or not <{2><[2>cos like she'd <{3><[3>she had her hair done up and she was <{4><[4>flashed up and <[1>yeah <[2>yeah <[3>yeah <[4>where was it where was it though in in the hall tut it was it was just down from their place actually <{1><[1>down in this church hall and um and so i went up to jake that's the guy whose engagement <{2><[2>it was i said oh is that charmaine laughs and he goes yeah so oh hi laughs <{3><[3>laughs and then oh voc it was quite good eh <{4><[4>voc <[1>yeah <[2>yeah <[3>laughs <&>5:00 <[4>how old was the guy that was getting engaged i think he's about twenty three but um the girl danielle she's er she was charmaine's best friend yeah at school and she's only twenty i think so she's quite young but he's in the army with travis so that's how travis that's how travis <{><[>knew him <[>good sort? good sort? yeah seems cool eh seems cool it was free beers and free wine and did you <{><[>see old smithy down at rugby club last night <[>orange juice yeah yeah he was waiting for gemma gemma didn't turn up did she no she didn't <{><[>yeah he said he was waiting for her <[>okay i didn't think she'd turn up oh and i met um charmaine's boyfriend too the latest what's he like <{><[>laughs i can imagine <[>voc oh no he's got just got long hair he was wearing a leather jacket i thought oh yeah laughs wicked kind of looked like a bodgie but but yeah he seemed all right he seemed like a nice guy eh just yeah and um wayne her old boyfriend turned up as well <{><[>but apparently apparently they're best mates oh wayne's fat <[>and what was he like <&>6:00 bit of a eugene <,> yes but you've met him no i haven't yep you have when once out at their place sniffs <{><[>mm <[>oh that's right i remember him yeah quite fat coughs you'd recognise <{><[>him sort of <,> yeah oh i'm not sure it's spiky now <[>spiky hair yeah yeah <,,><&>3 the all black's game today was bloody shocking <,> sucked man <,> <.>l like just <.>y just when all the ball and all the line outs when <{><[>everything <[>mm can't do anything with it the <{><[>backs are pathetic <[>yeah yeah sad man need a few new players like walter little eroni clark and someone like that cooper sucked man just <{1><[1>dropped the ball all day he just <{2><[2>can't do <[1>yeah <[2>his kicking was no good either it was unlucky a few but still they've got to go over yeah i don't know about timu at fullback eh <&>7:00 he <.>has hasn't been <.>li very very dangerous when he's been coming into the line at the moment and his kicks <{><[>have been pretty shocking <[>and lomu was shocking on defence yeah but then no one or i <.>r <{><[>i reckon <[>they haven't taught him anything <{><[>they've just sort of stuck him in there <[>i reckon the only thing he i reckon the only thing you can do is put timu back on the wing cos he's the only one who's up there <{1><[1>in terms of play and then find a <{2><[2>forward <[1>mm <[2>jeff wilson <,> <{><[>jeff wilson eric rush you've got those two <[>no yeah but they're not they're not up to it man <{><[>you know <[>eric eric rush is eric rush is a <{><[>class player <[>no yeah he is but i don't know if he's a test class player i reckon eh he's a strong runner eh he'd be up there with the <{><[>best of them <[>put cooper back at fullback and bring in someone good in the second five someone who can catch the ball and stuff mm <{><[>eroni clark or yeah zinzan brooke he's king mate <[>zinny was awesome mate kicks some serious butt that boy king of new zealand rugby that one big tackles mean tackles mm <&>8:00 no he's quite choice no it was good to get out with travis last night actually yeah yeah i've seen him <.>in we told you how he came over one time when you were down eh yeah came round home didn't recognise him at first why's that he just <.>l oh i voc he just looked <{><[>so different no i recognised him last night cos we were walking down stuart drive and he was going up <[>what last night oh yeah and he stopped and i said oh there's travis i think went over and it was travis <,> said where are you off to i said oh home he goes oh give you a ride then i said okay then he says aaron home i said yeah and he goes oh <,> i might see him i said oh you might as well come over and see him now he goes yeah okay then oh yeah so pretty keen said he's been playing no rugby no time for it eh sniffs yeah oh he wants to start now oh he thinks he's pretty keen on starting soon didn't seem that impressed with the army at the moment didn't know whether or not he likes it eh bit homesick yeah he reckons there's some whacked out weirdos there <&>9:00 yeah voc oh well <,,> not the best kind of thing to do i don't reckon what's that be in the army oh yeah good life experience tut he only wants to go in for two years and then come out join the police force anyway so join the police force? yeah wants to be a <{><[>policeman <[>where's he want to do that back in wellington i guess so clears throat mm he's made some good mates but he reckons there's <.>s some really spaced out clowns in the army so yeah all thick as yeah and he doesn't have to do anything so i mean there's no no brainpower you know yeah but no i reckon i reckon he'd be a damn good policeman eh i reckon he'd be an awesome policeman why's that oh yeah he's just <,> he just knows where he's at <.>a and he's you know he has hasn't got any hang ups like you know he doesn't want to beat the crap out of anyone just for the hell of it and stuff and he's just you know he's mm <{><[>he'd be quite good working with like er street kids and all that <[>he's really comfortable with <&>10:00 mm you know cos he <.>was wasn't the most scholarly person <,> you know <{><[>he'd <.>t sort of <[>oh but he's got brains oh he's got brains yeah but i mean you know he wasn't the best student at school and he <.>wa you know wasn't yeah always the best boy he'd be sort of quite good like that oh or going <{><[>round schools gets on well with people <[>yeah yeah i suppose yeah he gets on well with people that's for <{><[>sure <[>real easy to get on with that's for sure that's for sure sniffs yeah <,,><&>3 yeah while the rest of us are stuck at university mm spending all your money trying to be a doctor what money <,> haven't got any money i have i'm rolling in it mate yeah you need to get a job man no sniffs oh yeah i might i've got my name <&>11:00 down for a job at the post office where i used to have one and i was talking to um i spent most of the night with david last night just um <,> saying that sue reeves is might be leaving soon cos she's left school has she yeah when did she leave school not long ago maybe a couple of weeks maybe not even that long really yeah she's left school so there might be a job coming up there oh what's she doing i don't know eh sniffs oh david didn't tell me that mind you i didn't speak to him for hell of a long but no he said he was supposed to shout you a beer and then you left yeah laughs yeah clears throat oh well travis was going so i wanted to get a lift <{><[>cos i couldn't be bothered walking home <,> oh is that right so sue's left <[>yeah mm i don't know why or when but i remember <.>s you know seeing her at school a couple of weeks ago so it can't have been long oh see old er saw photos of joel buck's car the other day he was at school <{><[>side <.>o <[>oh after the smash? <&>12:00 yeah side of it was quite badly stuffed eh yeah? costing four and a half grand to repair <.>w what did he do he was coming up the gorge and car pulled out in front of him by a like you know he went to overtake a car and there was another car going slow in the other lane which he couldn't see and he um had to go to the side to miss this car and he went into a lamppost car spun right round he must've been doing a fair doozy speed yeah <{><[>to spin right round <[>otherwise he could've just put the brakes on yeah laughs instead of having to <{><[>run off the side of the road <[>well you know you know what he drives like yeah true so he's paying for it himself or what i don't know i <.>d yeah i think he is something with his insurance that maybe they're paying for some of it i know he has to pay for at least some of it tut oh well not really sure eh far out saw bob calloway at the rugby club last night <&>13:00 yeah i saw him too big fat oaf man he just waddled along eh oh he looked all right NO he was huge he just <{><[>oh <[>i don't know if he played yesterday yeah he did he played for the senior seconds he's been named in a wellington invitation team yeah <{><[>to play who are they supposed to be playing <[>why not um i read that team somewhere new south wales? queensland? i don't know i read the team yeah anyway yeah <,> anyway yeah yeah <,,><&>3 yeah so are you looking forward to going on this trip down south oh <{><[>should be good <[>should be awesome who are you going with smithy yeah what is he going to come over the night before yous leave tomorrow night or something er <,> yeah i guess he will eh i'm not sure probably be easier than meeting him <&>14:00 well i have to give him a lift out to the airport <{><[>anyway but um yeah i don't know what i'm doing the next two days i haven't really done enough work eh haven't really done enough work <[>yeah mm <,> yeah i've got to do a bit of t d work over this little break what bit of t d work oh yeah p d work go work for the city council boy oh yeah oh yeah man is that right what have you got to do for t d oh just design bridge work out all the forces on it on each member of the bridge and all this rubbish it's really boring but you know oh yeah can't wait till the secondary schools' trial eh i'm so looking forward to it when is it tut it's on um the wednesday after midterm thirteenth <,,> oh that's quite close far out and it's like <{><[>out of the out of two of the <&>15:00 halfbacks i knew mentioned there i reckon when i played that i played better than both of them one was like from mana heremaia or something the other one was katz from heretaunga <&>15:13 <[>clears throat