Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 16 hours agoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comvideomessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1426arrow-down12
arrow-up1424arrow-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 · 16 hours agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareCALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·15 hours agoI thought kiwis spoke English.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoMy favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video
minus-squaremagikmw@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up29·14 hours agoThey do have a funny way of speaking it.
minus-squareBlueÆther@no.lastname.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·8 hours agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g
minus-squareWhatYouNeed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoAll my friends have been on my deck.
minus-squareCagi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-213 hours 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-up3·13 hours agoThey do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours agoAnd their short i’s to a short e
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 hours 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
I thought kiwis spoke English.
My favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video
They do have a funny way of speaking it.
Git off my dick
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