Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 17 days agoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comvideomessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down11
arrow-up1222arrow-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 · 17 days agomessage-square75fedilink
minus-squareHaus@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·17 days agoThey do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·17 days agoAnd their short i’s to a short e
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·17 days 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
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