Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 8 months agoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comvideomessage-square82linkfedilinkarrow-up1610arrow-down13
arrow-up1607arrow-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 · 8 months agomessage-square82linkfedilink
minus-squareCALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up85arrow-down1·8 months agoI thought kiwis spoke English.
minus-squaremagikmw@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up46·8 months agoThey do have a funny way of speaking it.
minus-squareBlueÆther@no.lastname.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·8 months agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g
minus-squareWhatYouNeed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoAll my friends have been on my deck.
minus-squareCagi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·edit-28 months 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-up9·8 months agoThey do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months 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-up5·8 months 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.
But every vowel in that sentence is an E.
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
Using only two vowels!