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[-] [email protected] 84 points 8 months ago

I thought kiwis spoke English.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago

They do have a funny way of speaking it.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

And their short i's to a short e

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

All our vowels are just "u" (or schwa as I was once told).

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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