601
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 1 month ago

I thought kiwis spoke English.

[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They say "LILILILILILI!" Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.

[-] Haus@kbin.earth 8 points 1 month ago

They do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

And their short i's to a short e

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 month ago

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

My favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video

this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
601 points (99.5% liked)

Mildly Interesting

17356 readers
32 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS