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Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world Wolf Link 🐺 @lemmy.world 3w ago

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

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I thought kiwis spoke English.
- They do have a funny way of speaking it.
- 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).
  
  Nuw Zulund
  
  Fush und chups
  
  Uh nu, u'm buchd, u'm buchd us.
  
  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

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