Wolf Link 🐺 to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world • 5 months agoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.commessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1605arrow-down12
arrow-up1603arrow-down1playI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comWolf Link 🐺 to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world • 5 months agomessage-square77fedilink
minus-square@Cagi@lemmy.calinkfedilink11•edit-25 months agoThey say “LILILILILILI!” Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.
minus-squareHauslinkfedilink8•5 months agoThey do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
minus-square@deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilink11•5 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-square@captainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•5 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.
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