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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

  <&>side one</&>
  <&>8:12</&>
  

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      well when i'm <.>i</.> it's like when i went to australia my <.>mu</.>
      before i went to australia my mother asked me <.>d</.> do i want
      anything

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      and i know <?>like</?> <.>da</.> i won't get anything from dad

  <WSC#DPC220:0015:RN>
      and i won't ask anything from dad cos dad doesn't have any money

  <WSC#DPC220:0020:RN>
      i mean dad's like on twenty three thousand right and he's been
      working for twenty years <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0025:RN>
      <{1><[1>the same</[1> job

  <WSC#DPC220:0030:RN>
      no he's forty three now he's been working there since

  <WSC#DPC220:0035:RN>
      no over twenty years <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0040:RN>
      <{2><[2>and <.>he's</.></[2>

  <WSC#DPC220:0045:IT>
      <[1><unclear>word</unclear></[1></{1>

  <WSC#DPC220:0050:IT>
      <[2>it's a</[2></{2> long time <{><[>eh</[>

  <WSC#DPC220:0055:RN>
      <[>and he's</[></{> earning <.>t</.> he's only earning twenty
      three thousand or twenty three thousand nine hundred

  <WSC#DPC220:0060:IT>
      <?>mm</?> <,> <.>mu</.> with mum being semiretired and john
      doing all the work

  <WSC#DPC220:0065:IT>
      like <{><[>john's</[>

  <WSC#DPC220:0070:RN>
      <[>how</[></{> old is your mum

  <WSC#DPC220:0075:IT>
      my mum's about forty nine <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0080:RN>
      oh yeah

  <WSC#DPC220:0085:IT>
      forty nine fifty um

  <WSC#DPC220:0090:IT>
      john because he's young um <&>9:00</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:0095:IT>
      he gets paid <.>extremel</.> extremely well <{><[>but</[> like
      he's <.>i</.> he is in the fifty fifty bracket

  <WSC#DPC220:0100:IT>
      but their tax is like fifty percent of your wages

  <WSC#DPC220:0105:IT>
      they are they are really heavy taxed

  <WSC#DPC220:0110:IT>
      so he may get <drawls>er</drawls> about twenty five thirty grand
      <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0115:RN>
      <[>yeah</[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0120:RN>
      yeah my dad's not even on the phone <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0125:RN>
      i can't even ring him

  <WSC#DPC220:0130:IT>
      can't can't you

  <WSC#DPC220:0135:RN>
      no <{><[>he hasn't got</[> he hasn't even got enough money to
      put the phone on

  <WSC#DPC220:0140:IT>
      <[>can't afford</[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0145:IT>
      shit

  <WSC#DPC220:0150:RN>
      <O>tut</O> everybody thinks <drawls>oh</drawls> my parents have
      got plenty of money oh you know and such and such

  <WSC#DPC220:0155:RN>
      everything i've everything i own i've worked for <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0160:RN>
      <{1><[1>dad's</[1> never given me anything

  <WSC#DPC220:0165:RN>
      and and it's not because he <?>just</?> hasn't wanted to it's
      not <.>be</.>

  <WSC#DPC220:0170:RN>
      because he hasn't been able to

  <WSC#DPC220:0175:RN>
      <{2><[2>i mean my dad still</[2> drives round in an old cortina
      <O>inhales</O>

  <WSC#DPC220:0180:RN>
      an old mark four cortina

  <WSC#DPC220:0185:RN>
      he's got a mortgage <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0190:RN>
      and er <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0195:IT>
      <[1><?>yeah that's cool</?></[1></{1>

  <WSC#DPC220:0200:IT>
      <[2><?>it's because he hasn't got</?> the money</[2></{2>

  <WSC#DPC220:0205:IT>
      is he married

  <WSC#DPC220:0210:RN>
      no

  <WSC#DPC220:0215:IT>
      he's single <&>10:00</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:0220:RN>
      still well i mean yeah still single after being married <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0225:RN>
      but i mean you know i mean <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0230:RN>
      he's he lost twenty thousand in investments through prudential
      when that went bust <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0235:RN>
      that was about four years ago so that was basically his life
      savings that went down the tube

  <WSC#DPC220:0240:IT>
      so now he's just trying to scrimp and save <,> all he can

  <WSC#DPC220:0245:RN>
      well he's not saving anything

  <WSC#DPC220:0250:RN>
      i mean when you're on <.>that</.> when you're on twenty three
      thousand a year and you've got a <.>s</.> <.>s</.> sixty five
      thousand dollar mortgage <latch>

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      mm

  <WSC#DPC220:0260:RN>
      you don't save <{><[>anything if you want to live at</[> the
      same time <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0265:IT>
      <[>it's like people <.>who</.> <.>who</.></[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0270:IT>
      who who are getting fourteen fourteen fifteen thousand dollars a
      year

  <WSC#DPC220:0275:IT>
      i mean it's what about two hundred dollars a week

  <WSC#DPC220:0280:RN>
      yeah but he's been working his butt off for twenty years

  <WSC#DPC220:0285:RN>
      that's the point that's the difference <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0290:IT>
      and then <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0295:RN>
      i mean he's ALWAYS had a job all his life and that's all he's
      got to show for it

  <WSC#DPC220:0300:IT>
      and then when he retires he'll get a gold watch

  <WSC#DPC220:0305:IT>
      <{><[>gold gold <unclear>word</unclear></[>

  <WSC#DPC220:0310:RN>
      <[>and he's a skilled <.>s</.> <.>s</.> skilled tradesman
      <&>11:00</&> as</[></{> well <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0315:RN>
      i mean he's a he's a builder <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0320:RN>
      but i mean he's happy eh

  <WSC#DPC220:0325:RN>
      i mean like he could go out and get bigger jobs or whatever but
      i mean he's happy doing what he wants to do i suppose <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0330:RN>
      but the point is i mean like er <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0335:RN>
      yeah so i mean he hasn't got he hasn't got he's strapped for
      cash <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0340:IT>
      what's <.>y</.> what's your mother like is she

  <WSC#DPC220:0345:RN>
      oh she's useless <O>laughs</O>

  <WSC#DPC220:0350:RN>
      she's got two credit cards

  <WSC#DPC220:0355:RN>
      she just uses uses different credit cards to pay off other
      credit cards <,> she's

  <WSC#DPC220:0360:RN>
      she owes THOUSANDS

  <WSC#DPC220:0365:IT>
      who pays for it her or <.>jo</.> er her or <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0370:RN>
      roger

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      roger roger pays for it

  <WSC#DPC220:0380:RN>
      yeah well <,> in a manner of speaking she owes a lot of money
      <,,><&>3</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:0385:RN>
      she just wastes it all eh <,,><&>3</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:0390:RN>
      spends it on partying

  <WSC#DPC220:0395:IT>
      mm what else <.>sh</.> er did <.>she</.> has she got any extra
      <.>career</.> <.>cur</.> any extra activities she does like
      sports or anything <&>12:00</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:0400:RN>
      <drawls>er</drawls> she's involved heaps with the community like
      tongan community <,> social work <,> um

  <WSC#DPC220:0405:RN>
      <O>tut</O> she's a j p

  <WSC#DPC220:0410:IT>
      is she

  <WSC#DPC220:0415:RN>
      yeah she does heaps

  <WSC#DPC220:0420:IT>
      bet they don't keep her busy for a long time though

  <WSC#DPC220:0425:RN>
      oh yeah <?>it</?> keeps HER busy

  <WSC#DPC220:0430:IT>
      is there any chance of you and your mother <.>get</.> <O>voc</O>
      getting back together and talking <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0435:RN>
      nah no chance

  <WSC#DPC220:0440:IT>
      not a chance in in hell

  <WSC#DPC220:0445:RN>
      she might want to but i've said my piece and hey <&>sound of
      glass clinking</&> baby baby <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0450:IT>
      well you never know <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0455:IT>
      six months down the line a year from now a couple of years from
      now

  <WSC#DPC220:0460:IT>
      <{><[>it might have changed</[>

  <WSC#DPC220:0465:RN>
      <[>oh that's what they all</[></{> say

  <WSC#DPC220:0470:IT>
      yeah <{><[><?>never know</?></[>

  <WSC#DPC220:0475:RN>
      <[>people</[></{> don't change like that

  <WSC#DPC220:0480:RN>
      people just don't change <{><[>she's</[> always been like that

  <WSC#DPC220:0485:IT>
      <[><unclear>word</unclear></[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0490:IT>
      but children have a lot of power over their <.>pare</.> er
      parents

  <WSC#DPC220:0495:IT>
      i mean they can hurt their <&>13:00</&> parents <.>rea</.> quite
      easily by NOT even talking to them

  <WSC#DPC220:0500:IT>
      it hurts their parents cos they're <.>they</.>

  <WSC#DPC220:0505:IT>
      it's like my father i mean i can give my father a hard time <,>
      by not talking to him <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0510:IT>
      and i'm giving him a hard time <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0515:IT>
      cos he he he treated me like shit so i'm treating him like shit

  <WSC#DPC220:0520:IT>
      i don't care i don't need to ring him <,> i don't need to talk
      to him

  <WSC#DPC220:0525:RN>
      <O>tut</O> well i don't <?>ever</?> talk to her either

  <WSC#DPC220:0530:IT>
      i mean it's my way of getting back at him

  <WSC#DPC220:0535:RN>
      <.>t</.> i've nothing against my mum

  <WSC#DPC220:0540:RN>
      i mean i still love her <{><[>she's</[> still my mum

  <WSC#DPC220:0545:IT>
      <[><.>i</.></[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0550:IT>
      i <.>s</.>

  <WSC#DPC220:0555:IT>
      i love my father but i've got everything against my father
      <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0560:RN>
      <O>exhales</O> i just er

  <WSC#DPC220:0565:RN>
      sometimes you got to walk away and er just leave

  <WSC#DPC220:0570:IT>
      yeah

  <WSC#DPC220:0575:IT>
      i mean <.>i</.> my father is a nice enough guy but <,> i don't
      agree with <.>h</.> the way he gets his money

  <WSC#DPC220:0580:IT>
      i mean he's a con artist

  <WSC#DPC220:0585:RN>
      <laughs>yeah</laughs> yeah i don't know <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0590:IT>
      and he <.>con</.> he he he cons people and he's conned me

  <WSC#DPC220:0595:IT>
      i mean he's so he he pretends to be mister nice guy

  <WSC#DPC220:0600:IT>
      <{><[>never does anything</[> wrong <latch> <&>14:00</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:0605:RN>
      <[>well <.>my</.> my mum</[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0610:RN>
      my mum took two grand out <.>of</.> out of <.>m</.> of my
      savings off me when i was sixteen to pay for rent when i was
      living there and going to school

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      mm

  <WSC#DPC220:0620:RN>
      that's all just disappeared

  <WSC#DPC220:0625:RN>
      that all just went on mastercard blah blah blah

  <WSC#DPC220:0630:RN>
      <{><[>that was</[> when i was sixteen

  <WSC#DPC220:0635:RN>
      and that's like that's everything i'd saved up until then

  <WSC#DPC220:0640:RN>
      i used to work ten lawn mowing jobs

  <WSC#DPC220:0645:RN>
      and i used to work all week basically i <.>used</.>

  <WSC#DPC220:0650:RN>
      i mean i used to work

  <WSC#DPC220:0655:RN>
      oh at one stage i had twelve twelve contracts on and this was
      like when i was fourteen <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0660:RN>
      and i worked every summer for about three years to save that <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0665:RN>
      it just all went <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0670:IT>
      <[><O>tut</O> well</[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0675:IT>
      well i um <,> er like i get on with my mother better than my
      father

  <WSC#DPC220:0680:IT>
      my mother <{1><[1><,> is really</[1> nice

  <WSC#DPC220:0685:IT>
      i mean she's easy going easy to get along with um <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0690:IT>
      but my father <,> cons people <&>15:00</&> out of their money
      <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0695:IT>
      he treats them like shit <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0700:IT>
      it's like he he i've <.>heard</.> i've told you before at one
      stage he had seven girlfriends <,> <{2><[2>all at the</[2> same
      time and it <.>all</.> it was going well for about three months
      <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0705:IT>
      and then one day one of them walked in while he was had another
      girlfriend over there

  <WSC#DPC220:0710:IT>
      surprise visit

  <WSC#DPC220:0715:IT>
      boom caught in the act

  <WSC#DPC220:0720:IT>
      same thing happened with his other ones

  <WSC#DPC220:0725:IT>
      i mean he he he's now <.>h</.>

  <WSC#DPC220:0730:IT>
      now he's over in australia <,> he's still playing the <.>ol</.>
      the the game

  <WSC#DPC220:0735:IT>
      i mean he doesn't learn

  <WSC#DPC220:0740:IT>
      i mean he got he got bashed up by gretchen

  <WSC#DPC220:0745:IT>
      gretchen broke his finger cracked his ribs <,> poured er poured
      milk over the top of his head and then broke the bottle over his
      head <,,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0750:IT>
      and then um <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0755:RN>
      <[1><&><?>sniffs</?></&></[1></{1>

  <WSC#DPC220:0760:RN>
      <[2>yeah i know</[2></{2>

  <WSC#DPC220:0765:RN>
      just like on that just like on that um on <&>16:00</&> that er
      milk ad <sings>da da da <{><[>da da</sings> <O>laughs</O></[>

  <WSC#DPC220:0770:IT>
      <[><?>no</?> yeah <.>sh</.></[></{> she <.>pour</.> poured it
      over his head and then broke the bottle all over his head and
      cracked his cracked his skull <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0775:IT>
      and er she went to court with it and er he he fucked off to
      australia

  <WSC#DPC220:0780:IT>
      and the judge said right she gets everything <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0785:IT>
      and and <.>w</.> it was <.>da</.> dad had bought everything i
      mean he'd bought the house he bought the car

  <WSC#DPC220:0790:IT>
      he bought everything he that <.>he</.> that <.>hou</.> house
      owned from the shop <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0795:IT>
      and she just claimed the whole lot <,> because he was stupid
      enough to play play around

  <WSC#DPC220:0800:IT>
      i mean when he was married he was playing around

  <WSC#DPC220:0805:RN>
      <O>inhales</O> yeah well the point is um <O>exhales</O> <,> i
      mean

  <WSC#DPC220:0810:IT>
      the point is you got to watch your step

  <WSC#DPC220:0815:IT>
      the point is you got to <.>s</.>

  <WSC#DPC220:0820:IT>
      yeah it's the old saying you <&>17:00</&> got to keep your <.>e</.>
      your friends close you got to keep your enemies closer <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0825:RN>
      well i wouldn't even bother talking to my dad if he was like
      that or my mum

  <WSC#DPC220:0830:IT>
      that's why i don't talk to my father

  <WSC#DPC220:0835:IT>
      i mean i i'll <.>ke</.> i'll ring him and i'll say hello and how
      ARE you <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0840:IT>
      but <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0845:RN>
      i wouldn't even do that <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0850:IT>
      i'm i mean <.>he</.> he's <{><[>written</[>

  <WSC#DPC220:0855:RN>
      <[>the best way</[></{> is silence

  <WSC#DPC220:0860:IT>
      yeah i mean he's written a book okay about religion <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0865:IT>
      now he's KNOCKED christianity majorly

  <WSC#DPC220:0870:IT>
      this book knocks christianity majorly

  <WSC#DPC220:0875:IT>
      now he's gonna get fair slack from it <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0880:IT>
      and if any of it cops on me <,> i'll cop it back on him <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0885:IT>
      i mean i'll just say look dad i'm getting slack from YOUR book

  <WSC#DPC220:0890:IT>
      what are you gonna do <&>18:00</&> about it <,,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0895:IT>
      and i know what he'll say just handle it son you're a man now
      you can handle it <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0900:RN>
      is that what he will say <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0905:IT>
      yeah that's <{><[>what he'll</[> say

  <WSC#DPC220:0910:RN>
      <[>for real</[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0915:IT>
      i mean he's he's a dreamer

  <WSC#DPC220:0920:IT>
      i mean he <,> from the age of five <,> i was expected to look
      after myself

  <WSC#DPC220:0925:IT>
      i mean i didn't have a childhood <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0930:IT>
      bummer not having a childhood yeah <,> <O>voc</O> <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0935:RN>
      yeah but the point is <,,><&>5</&> <{><[>like</[> no the point
      is not <.>everyo</.> <O>voc</O>

  <WSC#DPC220:0940:RN>
      i mean <O>inhales</O> you've obviously had a bad childhood and i
      mean mine wasn't that great <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0945:IT>
      <[>the point is</[></{>

  <WSC#DPC220:0950:IT>
      mhm <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0955:RN>
      but i mean there are heaps of people who are heaps worse off

  <WSC#DPC220:0960:RN>
      <{1><[1>and the thing is</[1> you <.>can't</.> you can't look
      back at the past and say well you <{2><[2>know</[2> what wasn't
      wasn't to be <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:0965:IT>
      <[1>yeah i know</[1></{1>

  <WSC#DPC220:0970:IT>
      <[2>yeah <.>w</.></[2></{2>

  <WSC#DPC220:0975:IT>
      but you think of <?>i mean</?> <.>y</.> you look back at your
      past and you see all this shit happening to you and <&>19:00</&>
      you think <O>voc</O> <,> okay i've handled it <,> cool <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0980:IT>
      and you move on and then your shit comes back to you

  <WSC#DPC220:0985:IT>
      i mean it hits you <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:0990:IT>
      i mean if my father releases this book <,> as i think he's going
      to do very shortly

  <WSC#DPC220:0995:RN>
      who cares

  <WSC#DPC220:1000:IT>
      i can see some slack coming back onto me cos i happen to be the
      son of <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:1005:IT>
      so i don't associate with my father

  <WSC#DPC220:1010:IT>
      that's why i'm glad i don't have the same last name as him
      <,,><&>3</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:1015:IT>
      i mean he's going to have to put it under a false name but it's
      easy enough to track him <,,>

  <WSC#DPC220:1020:IT>
      i mean

  <WSC#DPC220:1025:RN>
      well it makes a lot of sense doesn't it really <,,><&>5</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:1030:IT>
      it makes more <.>s</.> <.>s</.> <.>s</.> more sense than
      anything else

  <WSC#DPC220:1035:IT>
      so what time are you guys going shopping

  <WSC#DPC220:1040:RN>
      eight <&>20:00</&>

  <WSC#DPC220:1045:IT>
      <O>tut</O> eight oclock

  <WSC#DPC220:1050:RN>
      yeah i don't know

  <WSC#DPC220:1055:RN>
      i mean <,,> <O>exhales</O> life is rude but i mean in the end
      it's up to you no one else is gonna <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:1060:RN>
      i mean there is no one else <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:1065:RN>
      it's up to you <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:1070:RN>
      there IS nothing else

  <WSC#DPC220:1075:IT>
      one person to rely on <,> only one to rely on

  <WSC#DPC220:1080:IT>
      yourself

  <WSC#DPC220:1085:RN>
      <O>tut</O> at the end of the day <,,> you're the only one who
      can say you've had a go <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:1090:IT>
      yep

  <WSC#DPC220:1095:RN>
      no one else can say it <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:1100:RN>
      but i mean that's part of the challenge

  <WSC#DPC220:1105:RN>
      and i mean

  <WSC#DPC220:1110:IT>
      <.>gr</.> growing up is a challenge

  <WSC#DPC220:1115:IT>
      i mean there's people that survive it and there's people who
      don't <latch>

  <WSC#DPC220:1120:RN>
      <?>it's a</?> pain in the arse <O>laughs</O>

  <WSC#DPC220:1125:IT>
      i mean but okay i i'm i'm i haven't had the greatest childhood
      and i haven't had the <&>21:00</&> greatest life in the world
      <,>

  <WSC#DPC220:1130:IT>
      but i'm still happy to be here

  <WSC#DPC220:1135:IT>
      i'm still glad i made it <,,>

  <WSC#DPC220:1140:IT>
      i'm still glad i i'm i'm breathing <&>21:10</&>
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