Understanding Kiwi, much?

[topcat83]

...and must post these classic Youtube snippets.

No 1 is two Glaswegians stuck in a lift...

Scottish trapped in the lift. Reason - Their accent - YouTube

Scottish trapped in the lift. Reason - Their accent - YouTube

No 2 is a recent New Zealand ad encouraging local youth not to drink and drive... it has a cult following

Legend - Drink Driving - YouTube

Legend - Drink Driving - YouTube

[G-Mo]

Ghost chups.

[topcat83]

Originally Posted by G-Mo

Ghost chups.

Only those that have watched the video clips know what you're talking about!

[anski]

Originally Posted by topcat83

You can't get worse than some of the parts of the Midlands of England. Wolverhampton and the Black Country come to mind.

Hubby (who is from Loughborough) took me and the boys (all Londoners) to Dudley, where we visited a local MacDonalds. I ordered two childrens meals, two 'Big Macs' and two cups of tea.

Girl with studs in eyebrow behind the counter mumbled something that ended in 'Tay'.

I asked her to repeat what she'd said four times - still without any kind of understanding.

Hubby comes up and says 'For goodness sake, she's asking you if you want milk and sugar with the tea!'

I must admit when I first arrived in NZ I thought the (Maori's at least I think they were) were from South Africa & I kept asking if they were, but I was wrong.

Yesterday in Washington DC the checkout operator talked to me in fact I could not shut her up but try as I might I could not understand her, must have forgotten to switch the hearing aid on

[anski]

Originally Posted by topcat83

...and must post these classic Youtube snippets.

No 1 is two Glaswegians stuck in a lift...

Scottish trapped in the lift. Reason - Their accent - YouTube

No 2 is a recent New Zealand ad encouraging local youth not to drink and drive... it has a cult following

Legend - Drink Driving - YouTube

Sorry just need to pick myself up from the floor I can relate to the Scottish one 100%

When I first arrived in Glasgow in 1965 with a South African accent no one could understand me & I certainly could not understand THEM.

They called the police POLIS but that is the name of a beautiful place in Cyprus.

[carosapien]

Originally Posted by G-Mo

Ghost chups.

That one's so funny isn't it it's given rise to a whole load of spin offs. Seen the film now get the tee shirt.



The best is still Beached Whale from years ago , where of course it all started. Master this and you can really start to learn Kiwi

Beached Whale - YouTube

Beached Whale - YouTube

[carosapien]

Originally Posted by Weta

Have you found your Kiwi ears? Do yours sometimes do a double-take and cause you to have some embarrasingly long pauses for a moment to think long and hard about what is being asked or said?

Today someone asked me would I like some peer. Some peer? Do I want a pier?


No, not right now, I don't think I do!


Then I saw it, it was a piece of fruit, a pear!

I was asked if the kids were going to a crash and being told I could take a fairy to work across the harbour.