How To Speak New Zullander

Post #31,703 by static 3/11/02 4:55:38 PM Reply	How To Speak New Zullander From an email my sister (who is not a Kiwi) sent me. Note: FOR BIST EFICT, RID THESE OUT ALOUD!!! Milburn - capital of Victoria Peck - to fill a suitcase Pissed aside - chemical which kills insects Pigs - for hanging out washing with Pump - to act as agent for prostitute Pug - large animal with a curly tail Nin tin dough - computer game Munner stroney - soup Min - male of the species Mess Kara - eye makeup McKennock - person who fixes cars Mere - Mayor Leather - foam produced from soap Lift - departed Kiri Pecker - famous Australian businessman Kittle crusps - potato chips Ken's - Cairns Jumbo - pet name for someone called Jim Jungle Bills - Christmas carol Inner me - enemy Guess - vapour Fush - marine creatures Fitter cheney - type of pasta Ever cardeau - avocado Fear hear - blonde Ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen Ear roebucks - exercise at the gym Duffy cult - not easy Amejen - visualise Day old chuck - very young poultry Bug hut - popular recording Bun button - been bitten by insect Beard - a place to sleep Chully Bun - Esky Sucks Peck - Half a dozen beers Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline Beers - large savage animals found in U.S. forests Veerjun - mythical New Zealand maiden One Doze - well known computer program Sex - one less than sivven Iggs Ecktly - Precisely Beggage Chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #31,733 by CRConrad 3/11/02 7:42:58 PM Reply	Funny - I read 'em all out aloud, and... ...I could have sworn that was 'Strailian! Huh?!? Whaddyamean, "there's a difference"? Not to the rest of the world there isn't! Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #31,736 by Meerkat 3/11/02 8:03:02 PM Reply	Grrr! :-) Reminds me of the 'Australian' bloke on MASH that sounded English. Despite sounding very different to New Zealanders, it's almost interesting (or frightfully boring) to note that the Australian accent is pretty much identical all around the country. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #31,751 by static 3/11/02 8:51:27 PM Reply	Here's a tip. Short of finding an Aussie film in your neck of the woods, scope out an episode of Farscape: Zhann (Virginia Hey) carries a nice, ordinary Australian accent. As does Chianna (Gigi Eggly [sp?]). Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #31,771 by Silverlock 3/11/02 11:39:03 PM Reply	Farscape Kick ass show. I've been hooked on this thing for a while now. Worse than heroin. With this much manure around, there must be a pony somewhere.
Post #31,784 by pwhysall 3/12/02 2:07:32 AM Reply	Re: Funny - I read 'em all out aloud, and... ObAOL: Me Too. We have a kiwi and a roo here at work, and I can't tell the difference, accent-wise. Must be some weird antipodean thing. Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #31,909 by Meerkat 3/12/02 6:35:37 PM Reply	Get 'em both to say 'sixty-six' and listen closely. But I can understand - I was watching 'six days seven nights' (or t'other way round?) on the telly recently (Why? I don't know, but it was ok). Anyway, Temuera Morrison (fab NZ actor) was in it for a short time - he didn't have much to say, and I thought at first he was Australian. So, it happens to the best of us :) The prime difference that we .au dwellers of our friends in .nz is that, per Wades post, the NZ accent tends to 'flatten' the vowel sounds - so nearly every short vowel sound is somewhere between 'uh' and 'eh'. Hence, the stereotyped taunts of 'suxty sux', 'fush and chups' etc heard in the broaded NZ accent. But yeah, differences between .au and .nz perhaps not as distinctive as those between a Texan and a Noo Yorker, or a resident from Devon and one from Manchester. Meerkat is some weird antipodean thing.
Post #31,913 by Ashton 3/12/02 6:54:09 PM Reply	Well, some o' us luvs ya.. As a refreshing change from the polished, homogenized so-as not-to-offend Anyone (and piss off legions) - smarmy uniform voice-inflections of our infamous Talking Heads (Corp Tee Vee, Govmint or Pundit). Funny thing tho - Brit-speak, especially the Royals' highly-refined skewed vowels and such -- seem about as grating, for being so obviously a product of the Class madness from all that History. Dunno about Oz and environs: are there remaining echoes of (intentional) Class-speak -- such as determine one's fate in your own Corporate orthodoxy? (My guess.. would be - that the origins of your locals, bein er anti-Authoritarian! - to say the least - might have attenuated this preposterous habit of evaluating individuals on the basis of voice-nuances. Is that Pollyannish of me?) Ashton
Post #31,915 by pwhysall 3/12/02 7:10:05 PM Reply	Well, I dunno. BBC English, which is accepted as The Right Way To Speak It, doesn't grate on me at all. What the royals and the aristocracy speak is hyperlect, which most definitely isn't correct English ("I shall take these trisers into the hise.") As for my accent grating, well, you'll just have to ask Karsten about that :-) Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #31,935 by Ashton 3/12/02 8:55:59 PM Reply	BBC fine - yup, that other's the Royal-speak which grates.
Post #31,934 by Meerkat 3/12/02 8:53:35 PM Reply	It's all about broadness Of the accent, that is. If any 'class' was to be derived, that's how it'd be done. Umm... very rough way of working it out - the broader your oz accent, the longer it takes you to say 'yeah'. :-) But then again, just because you're talking to someone who's wearing stubbies and a singlet, and draws out his 'yairs' to five seconds, doesn't mean they're not a multi-millionaire. there was a quote from someone famous along those lines - something like 'Say you meet an Australian and he's wearing a pair of shorts and a moth-eaten t-shirt, dishevelled and looking like tramp. He may be a tramp. Then again, he may be a multi-millionaire'. I've not met too many millionaires, but I can vouch for that statement - lack of pretence is a Good Thing. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #31,937 by static 3/12/02 9:04:03 PM Reply	Possible exageration ahead. Meerkat's examples may work better for those with northern accents if you shorten the vowels lots. E.g. "f_uhsh n ch_uhps". The NZ vowels get more pronounced the further south you go. That is, a native of Dunedin will sound different from a resident of Auckland, but the latter will sound Aussie to most US and UK listeners. Wade, who is currently reading a book about how the English language has developed. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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