<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:16 hello hello you called? yeah so how was last night last night? nothing happened last night well i called at about six and you were out yeah so where were you oh we were coming back from watching a bit of the nissan mobil and we got back at about eight oclock <&>tape fades at this point for about eight seconds <{><[>voc coming back from camp yeah <[>word yeah and stu yeah and stu voc yeah inhales so pretty dull really <.>y laughs yeah hey <.>w <.>wh what time did you get to the mobil um i think we watched it <,> six thirty till about seven thirty <.>or yeah about then cos then it got bloody cold <&>1:00 yeah and we were freezing our arses off so then we went home laughs yeah it wasn't too bad it wasn't great though yeah oh well never mind what did you get up to oh i babysat last night oh earn some money nope no? yeah it was my auntie and she was the one who paid for me to go to auckland aha so it was a return the favour yeah oh i see no i'm tidying up my room at the moment and i just <.>found laughs a <.>sandwich was totally covered in mould oh yum gross yeah and um i found a contact you know the magazine yeah may nineteen ninety oh honestly laughs that's not bad actually <{><[>laughs quite a good effort <[>laughs and um i've only just started as well awesome man <{><[>laughs your room qualifies as a complete tip <&>2:00 <[>the top laughs laughs yeah wicked yeah it's <.>just it's quite daunting this task actually yeah oh well <.>what how long have you been going about an hour oh yeah and like <.>you can't tell the difference yet yeah i know you got to be about three hours in before you can actually tell that you've <{1><[1>actually made any effort at all <{2><[2>yeah <[1>laughs <[2>three hours and you're just past the door yeah you slowly move in great oh well never mind i won't hey when's that bloody scotsman leaving your house tomorrow yeah? with any luck er he goes i think stu's just gone down to the shop voc <{><[>oh goody <[>i went yeah okay laughs word oh well <,> so you want to do some mountain biking at some stage i certainly do i've just got to plan my headset aha yeah um i ordered a fifty two yesterday yeah? <{><[>ordered or bought? <&>3:00 <[>should <.>be no fifty three i ordered cos that's as big as you can get i think gee <,> <.>so <.>and are you gonna buy a new cluster like er same as mine at the front? yeah no not at this stage but i might <.>get get to that stage jeez fifty three how much does that cost suppose it will cost about forty awesome that's not too bad <,> fuck i need <.>a <.>a <.>ha so are you <.>a going to use it on an off road no laughs good it's just stupid you'd never get into it yeah i killed me on the road today oh yeah definitely a slick's word what got slicks <.>yeah <{><[>oh yeah <[>as opposed to yours yeah slicks have got hell of a lot better grip on those roads a better grip you reckon? yeah as soon as you've lost it though you're gone laughs yeah you're all over the fucking word impossible oh yeah <.>no <.>i i <.>li i love the skidding sound they make eh yeah <&>makes skidding sound <&>4:00 jesus <.>oh i wish i had that sort of money laughs mm oh well never mind yeah i bought couple of c ds today yeah? what did you get got jesus jones <{><[>yeah yeah <[>word i need a copy of that aha and i got simply red's latest <,> <{><[>stars that sort of stuff yeah <[>word is it good yeah it's WICKED just so mellow mellow dude bit different to um e m f and jesus jones laughs oh have you got e m f have you yeah voc why didn't you tell ME oh no sorry you want a copy do you yeah oh well blank <.>tapes i mean i've only got nicky bernadette geoff and now YOU that want copies so yeah <.>just yeah well i've got blank tapes have you yeah oh just flood them in man laughs yep collections word great yeah oh well not a problem no are you set for <.>the oh are you going to the <&>5:00 ball marsden? yeah <.>n not that i know of you <.>should you should get set up when is it it's on thursday so you need to move fast thursday what date's <.>that that <.>is fifth fifth <,> okay like two days after <.>the prizegiving okay well who's going to invite me then laughs yeah well <.>you'll what shouldn't be hard to do yeah to get an invite <,,> um mm tut <.>i'll i'll tell people that you're looking for one and yeah you should be able to get set up pretty easily i think yeah cos there's heaps of people <{><[>looking for people <[>is it meant to be informal or formal semi <&>pronounced semai i think so i can wear just um what i wore to the other ball exactly <&>pronounced as zackly so it doesn't cost too much awesome mm that truly is hot laughs that'll be quite wicked actually yeah and is it on the boat doubt it oh <{><[>no i don't know where it is <[>word <.>ha heard this rumour it's going to be on a boat yeah i know it was gonna be extremely formal <&>6:00 and be on a boat but no oh that would be wicked eh just cruising out and chuck <.>up chuck up over the side yeah wonderful no smell cos yeah <{><[>you just lose it <.>l no SMELL because you lose it all over the side <[>what laughs yeah <.>i <.>m might endanger us in the rough weather <{><[>yeah laughs <[>people falling off everywhere laughs great awesome yeah yeah and they wouldn't know anyone had fallen off until way at the end when they count the people who get off yeah oh well how <.>many how many would you lose oh about fifty laughs <{><[>is that all <[>voc oh it was a good night laughs mm shit <,> oh well <,> yeah i need to get plastered soon i really do you do? yeah has it been too long it's been at least a week oh oh no my god you must be feeling it a bit now yeah life's getting down yeah getting you down <.>y have to <.>get have to get plastered and yeah yeah word an <&>7:00 hour looking after the kid and then he fell asleep and i spent four hours whacked listening to the radio cos they've got no t v laughs awesome reading the evening post and the economist <.>and whatever else you can <{1><[1>fucking find yeah doesn't matter what it's about as long as it's words yeah <{2><[2>i know the feeling laughs <[1>yeah <[2>yeah and like cos he was just basically <.>next in the next room i couldn't have <.>it <.>t couldn't turn the radio up anything <.>oh oh no oh well <.>w you didn't earn anything for it? what you didn't earn anything for it? no i got that on monday <.>tha what i did <,> what i got for it yeah word are you going down to the mobil tomorrow? mm yeah <.>if if it's fine aha you? most probably i think i <.>don't i'm not sure exactly what's happening i mean you know geoff's got his big plans and his parents are going down they're sitting in the grandstand and ra da da oh well that's thirty five bucks yeah not money i've got to throw around <&>8:00 inhales but yeah i'll see what's happening basically <{><[><.>and <.>m might end up down there <[><.>yep <.>well yeah well if geoff's not going yeah <.>and we should just go for a burn in the morning then turn up there at about one oclock yeah <,> <.>yeah <.>bur burn down on the bikes just a minute what? <&>at this point V is interrupted by someone in his house for approximately ten seconds um yeah yeah anyway yeah we'll just burn down <,,> cruise around trying to <.>c pay for the cars eh oh yeah no problem yeah go for it such a tight circuit though yeah? <.>cos yeah me and callum went down about that time to do <,> the <.>r um butterfly creek just after um the <.>exams fifth form exams fifth form? yeah last year yeah after school c and <.>we we went down the course like top gear yeah? and to do the corners is bloody hard even on a bike oh yeah? like voc we were coming BACK <&>9:00 <.>towards like heading north <{><[>yeah <[>and they've got that swerve before the bridge yeah there's a left and a right and shit we were RIGHT banked down to get around the bastard so they must find it really tricky yeah <.>we the b ms will clean up again probably b ms? oh <.>i <.>oh <.>i i'm going for godzilla you reckon? yeah shit we were down there yesterday and you could hear BROCK'S car you know <.>his <{><[>his new fucking commodore <[>yeah the commodore the v m? yeah <.>a you can hear it from like the other end of the quay you can hear it when it's coming yeah hear this voc noise ah here comes brock and he'd come up and he'd jam on the brakes and he'd LOCK the fucking thing and he'd try and swing it round the corner he's just having SO much fun <{><[>laughs <[>oh shit yeah one thing i don't understand about those guys is why they don't put a b s on <.>their um on their <.>w brakes yeah i know it's really odd eh <.>yeah <.>a only the b m ws have got it <.>eve even <.>i i think only one of them has because we saw one b m lock up and just about hit <.>the <{><[>cos we were at the u bend the real tight u bend <[>voc yeah at the end of the straight yeah and <{><[><.>he <[>yeah well they need them on that bouncy corner er voc voc <.>bounce bounces eh? yeah <{><[>cos if <.>you they get perfect braking all the way <[>word yeah but this guy just locked it up and he skidded for no shit about seventy five metres before he realised that only one of <.>his you know one of his front <.>ones you could see him twisting the wheel to keep it straight <&>10:15