Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 28 days agoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comvideomessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1601arrow-down12
arrow-up1599arrow-down1videoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comWolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 28 days agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squareCALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up83·28 days agoI thought kiwis spoke English.
minus-squaremagikmw@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up45·28 days agoThey do have a funny way of speaking it.
minus-squareBlueÆther@no.lastname.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·27 days agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g
minus-squareWhatYouNeed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·27 days agoAll my friends have been on my deck.
minus-squareCagi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-228 days agoThey say “LILILILILILI!” Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.
minus-squareHaus@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·28 days agoThey do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·28 days agoAnd their short i’s to a short e
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·28 days agoAll our vowels are just “u” (or schwa as I was once told). Nuw Zulund Fush und chups Uh nu, u’m buchd, u’m buchd us. Source: https://youtu.be/3cPs2SzShNc?si=H3OnlZLbnRJCZqzS
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·27 days agoMy favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video
I thought kiwis spoke English.
They do have a funny way of speaking it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g
All my friends have been on my deck.
They say “LILILILILILI!” Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.
They do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
And their short i’s to a short e
All our vowels are just “u” (or schwa as I was once told).
Source: https://youtu.be/3cPs2SzShNc?si=H3OnlZLbnRJCZqzS
My favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video
https://youtu.be/ZdVHZwI8pcA