Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 个月前I don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comvideomessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1602arrow-down12
arrow-up1600arrow-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 · 1 个月前message-square79fedilink
minus-squareHaus@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 个月前They do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 个月前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
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