<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:12 i was talking to jackson last night <,> saw who at the pub manuka jackson yeah at the pub she'd just come back to see <.>f from seeing once were warriors oh yeah first time she'd seen it? mm and? she looked a bit struck she was what she looked a bit struck oh yeah she just had this blank look on her face i said oh you know where you fellas been she said <{><[>oh well we just seen seen once were warriors <[>coughs yeah said oh yeah voc and she was just like didn't <.>ha i said what did you think she didn't she was just going OH voc OH <.>i voc voc laughs very voc very i say yeah goes at you eh yeah <,> it's a pretty hard out movie eh tut i haven't seen lion king though <&>1:00 yeah lion king's all right lion king yep <.>apart from the fact that it's sexist well i mean it's disney eh tut but i liked um i actually liked aladdin better than lion king exhales i thought that was a better movie but it's good got good one liners in it i reckon they should bring back geronimo <,> the movie? yeah have you seen that nope i don't know anyone that did either yeah i've seen it but <.>it yeah mm was it any good <{><[>that <[>yeah it's good i don't know why they stopped it eh <.>i i suppose people just didn't like geronimo big deal well <.>pparently it didn't have enough whities in it <{><[>laughs no lead role eh <[>laughs yeah what can you do well that's true <{><[>and you weren't exactly getting any of the maoris going round to see it anyway <[>it's word yeah tut <{><[>inhales exhales <[>so no it was a good movie me and um me and john went to see it john? mm <,> tut yep seen true lies yet nah go see that one though that's <{><[>that's a word <[>good one true lies schwarzenegger <&>2:00 mm schwarzenegger and er oh what's that woman off er <,> fish called wanda <,,> jamie lee curtis oh yeah? yeah <,> sniffs they're in it <,> so what about um tut <,> oh oh did you get in trouble last thursday tut yeah i got in LOT of trouble did you yeah tut fuck i was in the shit just for the night before yeah fuck <.>i <.>w i i'm still in trouble mate are you yeah i'm doing damage control are you yeah <&>sound of possibly cup or glassware i am in the shit tut yeah i know tut how are you <{><[>mate <[>i used <.>to oh no i'm no i don't go through those i used to for a while there i was <{><[>getting some MAJOR my thing was just to turn off <[>yeah yeah well i did too but it didn't work this time <,,> oh yeah <{><[>i hate it eh <[>sniffs yeah clears throat so <&>3:00 i mean if you want to go out it' <.>s <,> so be it yep that's what i thought <{><[>laughs <[>laughs laughs yeah oh well tut so it's a bummer yeah i got in trouble again then i got in trouble again saturday night tut for staying awake too long? yeah eh? sniffs <,,> well that's part of it when i was talking to kiri oh what did kiri say there was a mess on saturday SHE was a mess? no there was a mess at the house oh yeah yeah yeah that's true that's true laughs it was a good party man oh awesome party oh man lately i just haven't been in the mood to sort of rage yeah i'll go out and i'll have a few beers but you know i know when my <{><[>time's come <[>yeah you go through stages eh yeah yeah <&>4:00 i i i do that like you know sometimes you just don't feel like going out sort of moseying round the house watching t v mm i think i've just reached <.>sat saturation point yeah and then another month whoa eh? whoa <{><[>she got heavy man party up large <[>another month's time yeah no flies on me yeah <&>drinks see that pub trip eh that night i <.>w come over to you fellas that <{><[>pub trip it was word yeah <[>yeah clears throat that was last night as well yeah yeah tuesdays oh is that when it was tuesday tuesday nights inhales that's a um i had a good night that night eh yeah <{><[>yeah i had a good night <[>yeah that sort of got at me back into it again what oh yeah? yeah cos i hadn't sort of had a few drinks for a while for a while since yep yeah and then tut yeah i was sort of that <&>pronounced as rat was about in the middle of me having a good good month's worth of thrashing it out yeah but now i'm all right getting back into the into the mahi a bit more into the gym cut back on the how's <{><[>your running word <&>5:00 <[>hangovers oh pretty non two runs last week yeah <{><[>see i i haven't run in about a week <[>um yeah? yeah i've got i'm i'm virtually starting back at scratch again i think when i start running again word <,,> shall we go for a run this week yep are you pretty busy this week nope i want to fit in at least two runs again this week yeah i think i'm free tomorrow go for tomorrow night i'm i'm busy tonight tomorrow? yeah yeah i might go for a run tonight as well <{><[>oh no i can't i got my cousin coming over for tea know hinemoa? <[>yes yeah i think i do eh she was looking for um a flat a while back oh yeah that's right you were saying oh yeah <,> tut <,> where's she work um oh city council that's right yep i remember i haven't met her but yeah <{><[>i remember you saying <[>you haven't met her? no i remember you saying about her yeah she's choice mm she's meant to be coming over for tea tonight mhm doing scallops cos your friend's um where do you get the old fish heads from <&>6:00 oh i'm going across to um <&>drinks tut shed five yeah there's a fella dino that works there dino dino his name's dino whenever they get a load he's meant to ring me up tut you know decent sized ones eh if it comes <{><[>to shitty sizes eh <[>yeah cos i wouldn't mind a few fish heads yeah? yeah maybe you should come over in the weekend and i'll score up some <{><[>cos i i haven't had a boil up in a while <[>yeah okay that's cool oh we can organise a boil up eh eh? organise a boil up <.>orga really organise a boil up <{><[>i was thinking of doing though i was thinking of doing a rewanga at some stage <[>choice can you do that can you cook <{><[>on them <[>oh my grandmother's told me how to do it <{><[>i've got i've got the bug but i <[>yeah i could <{><[>ask mum to send out a i could ask mum to send down her recipe <[>i've never tried it <.>i yeah yeah yeah well it's like i tried learning off the old um my grandmother and she was saying like i thought how how much do you how do you leave it in how long do you leave it <{><[>in the fridge for oh till you need it <[>yeah laughs <{><[>laughs <[>i said how long's that i don't <&>7:00 know how <{1><[1>long are you going to need it <{2><[2>next i said well who knows is it two weeks can you leave it oh i suppose so <[1>yeah <[2>yeah laughs couldn't get any answers out of <{><[>her like you know how do you make <.>it he goes oh well you get a bit of flour you put it in you put a bit of <,> you put a bit of sugar in and then you put a bit of water in how much? oh as much as you need <[>yeah yeah laughs sorry nana i sort of i don't understand those sort of <{><[>instructions <[>yeah mum got hoha with me cos she said i was too impatient tut to learn? <.>n yeah yeah i wanted er i wanted the rewanga now i couldn't wait for few whatever hours she kept in the hot water cupboard oh yeah <{><[>to rise <[>yeah yeah to rise oh man tut <{><[>well i yeah well i'd love to it do a rewanga <.>that that one that we've got is from my great grandmother's time <[>it's a bit mm tut so the old lady reckons it's about a hundred years old oh yeah mm that's pretty tough bread sh laughs yeah man it lasts eh <&>8:00 laughs yeah heaps of mould on it though true true <,> build your house with it laughs kill somebody with it <{><[>laughs throw it across the road <[>laughs set up a road block with it yeah hey you stop <&>makes noise of car braking tut mind you he was telling me <,> tut oh they was talking about hangi stones <{><[>this morning <[>you've got four and you've still got yours down at our place yeah i know i know we should <.>of you know we should that's a good idea organise a hangi <{><[>down at your place <[>yeah tawhiri's <,> tawhiri wants a hangi does he yeah all you need to do is find a block of land oh your fellas place eh yeah there's plenty <{><[>of <[>would they mind doing the big burn er <{><[><.>i i don't know <[>hey that's the only thing that that i'm suspect about yeah <{><[>yeah <[>cos you've got to have big a raging fire sniffs voc don't know could ask ask dave see what he <.>sa you know the neighbour and i'll ring up vicky and see what she says cos you might have to get a permit eh sniffs <,> from the council eh <{><[>city council <[>yeah yeah laughs <&>9:00 hello hinemoa hello knock knock knock <{><[>laughs yeah <[>laughs yes we've just got this hangi you want to come around <{><[>to a hangi want to come round to a hangi <[>yeah yeah yeah yeah <{><[>perfect <[>two things laughs laughs and now here's the application for a fire yeah sign here <&>drinks tut what's karu up to um he's got some work over at radio new zealand for the week has he yeah some sort of play he's doing when's this thing coming up which one oh <{><[>it's was supposed to come out in june eh haven't seen it <[>it's very isn't it they probably shelved it what's it called oh i forget <.>it's but it's a <.>serial <.>ma series of maori plays about four of them yeah yeah <{><[>yeah <[>yeah and they shelved them? looks <{><[>like it ain't seen nothing in it yeah oh they they could be delaying it i haven't asked him but he i remember him saying sometimes they don't they delay it for a few months just change their timetables <[>then why they shelve the word oh <&>sighs tut so i hope it comes on mm mm tut <&>10:00 <,,><&>5 hear he was heading off? yeah <,> you know kiri wants him there to stay in this hotel yeah we're off to see him tonight just have a few drinks where's that where did he take off sniffs he's taking off on saturday on to um word tut <,> <{><[>cos he rung up eh he rung up yesterday <[>three thirty rung up here? mm oh yeah <{><[>did you ask <.>hi <[>he rung up to you yep and you were gone this was about <,> five past ten and then he um um then he rung up for kiri yeah mm oh okay oh but kiri wasn't in either <&>10:42 <&>next section not transcribed as participants move to another room <&>11:36 tut what i reckon just from hanging around helen and her mates yeah is that they just talk about different things that's true <{><[>eh <[>they have different subject matter and they use different vocab cos the other thing you've ever found like you talk to a pakeha and you trying to tell a joke and they don't get it yeah but when you talk to a maori <{><[>they do <[>and they get it yeah yeah yeah and that the whole way you tell your jokes as well <&>12:00 YEAH it's how it goes <{><[>man <[>tut yeah well that's that's probably what and there's like yeah <{><[>still a lot of things like that <[>i've got a yeah but i mean that was like one of the most valuable things that for me to come down wellington and work in um like pakeha organisations yeah cos that just realise first i <.>saw i remember <&>pronounced member i used to turn off heaps especially in meetings eh yeah i'd listen like really intense <.>tently for about half an hour max and anything over half hour man i was just i couldn't keep up <{1><[1>and i just i used to just wander fuck i remember <&>pronounced member i remember i thought it was something to do with um <,> er i thought it was something to do with um the fact that i was just bored or that i had little concentration and that <{2><[2>you know i could i could hear them speaking english <[1>yeah <[2>laughs yep but i didn't understand what they were saying i was like too many of these big words put together aha you know for too long and and then i realised that basically it was they were talking about <&>13:00 subject matter that i had no idea of right and they were using language that while i understood the individual words or spurts of sentences i couldn't understand the the concepts that they were talking right you know all of the word for example if you're talking about um how to scope out a a report yeah on um environmental impacts then you start talking about different types of environmental impacts and then you start using technical words about um say discharge yeah and the way that you should have your discharge pipes or you know dispersion rates of whatever <{><[>shit into the water and that and yeah just continual that sort of talk for a long period of time it just <[>mm mm mm i see what you mean laughs dong <{1><[1>hello hello what are they talking about i know they're speaking <{2><[2>english yeah <[1>laughs <[2>oh yeah now wake up sir now wake up mm mm but it the one i found is like um you you know my mate john eh yeah yeah cos like when we were flatting up in auckland he used to notice that when i used <&>14:00 to go out to my uncle's he recorded like i used to switch accents yeah yeah <{><[>yeah <[>and i never really noticed that until till he said so eh yeah yeah well that's true i mean i used to notice it of my old man no no he never ever switched he always had his ratshit accents anyway laughs <{1><[1>but <.>he word yeah no he didn't like you were saying that when i'm <.>at you know when i was at varsity i talked different <{2><[2>and <.>w to when i went out to pahia <{3><[3>i yeah <[1>word <[2>yeah <[3>yeah i think it it could have <&>tape noise something to do with like the mind set that you're in you know that <{><[>like <[>yeah could be eh <{><[>if there's a <[>or for yeah <,,><&>5 certain <,> if your head's geared up to thinking a certain way when you're in certain company and that you <.>c you know that they expect a certain type of conversation yeah then you automatically have to start talking like that i suppose so tut i wonder if it's related like when you write and when you talk are different <{><[>it might be something like that <[>but yeah the interesting thing though trying to explain say to people that come in um um from you know that just like maori that come in to see t p k yeah and they're doing like a research course but they're round about thirty thirty five forty and they've been working all their lives <{1><[1>on the roads or whatever and you've got to explain what you do in really simple english in in in just in layman's terms so you can't drop words in <{2><[2>like ANAlyse and stuff like that and then it makes it if you know what you're doing then it's easy to explain but just listening to some of our policy analysts get up tut i think they spout on with too much rhetoric <{3><[3>you know what <.>i yeah you know you have a situation and you've got to analyse what the the important elements of it <{4><[4>and i <[1>mm <[2>oh yeah <[3>definitely <[4>seriously yeah that's why half the trouble you fellas are getting in troubles whenever you stand up people just say you're talking shit yeah yeah cos you are yeah you know to them you <{1><[1>are they have no idea what you're <{2><[2>talking about <[1>mm <[2>well that's right that's exactly right <&>16:00 yeah <{><[>sniffs sniffs <[>and someone that's got the ability to just talk simple plain english yep for example <&>points to someone laughs yeah i <.>i didn't know he was in the office laughs our leader yeah our beloved leader our be loved leader laughs yeah tut <&>sighs oh well <&>16:18