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Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

I don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.

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I don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.

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Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I thought kiwis spoke English.

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      They do have a funny way of speaking it.

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          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g

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            All my friends have been on my deck.

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      They say “LILILILILILI!” Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.

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      They do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.

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        And their short i’s to a short e

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          All our vowels are just “u” (or schwa as I was once told).

          • Nuw Zulund
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          • Uh nu, u’m buchd, u’m buchd us.

          Source: https://youtu.be/3cPs2SzShNc?si=H3OnlZLbnRJCZqzS

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      My favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video

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      https://youtu.be/ZdVHZwI8pcA

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