Griffith Corpus of Spoken Australian English (GCSAusE14)
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Title
GCSAusE14
Number of people
2
Description
A transcribed conversation between two family
members, a brother and his sister, who have recently
moved to Brisbane from North Queensland (Cairns).
Participants
Glen (27, Australia, male, L1 English, AU, Secondary,
Wine Maker)
Linda (30, Australia, female, L1 English, AU,
Secondary, none)
Date of recording
April 2009
Place of recording
Brisbane
Length of recording
5 minutes 20 seconds
Contributor of recording
Melanie Hebrok
Length of transcript
1,185 words, 6,519 characters (with spaces), 161 lines
Number of pages
7
Transcribers
Melanie Hebrok (April 2009)
Yasuhisa Watanabe (June 2009)
Date transcription last
7 October 2009
modified
Creator
Michael Haugh
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Griffith University
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>are you< writing a cover letter? (1.0)
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someti::mes
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no ↑a:ll the ↓t:ime (0.9) y[ea:h here: there’s a =
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thing he:re]
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don’t need to] for fuckin’ factory jobs like
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[(no you don’t-) you
fucki[n’ job (
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[yes you do,] ↑I ↓do:
I don’t °fuck it fuck [(
)°]
[I’ve got a=
[Mel got] the:s[e from uni
=cover letter saved on me thin[gie:]
[°ah:] °bullshit
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(3.0) fu::ck (5.4) >and you got< no call backs at
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all
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nah (0.8)
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that sucks have you >rung’em?<
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°un hm yeah I’m on a [(
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[how many] (.) employment
agencies have you done (2.0)
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I’ve got a:: (.) they just wrote that they’ll email
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back or whatever but (0.8) >well I’m on unemployment
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benefits< so::
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yea::h (.) so there should be fuckin’ [(
)
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a bit]
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transf]er:- when I transfer my (.) .h ↑thing ↓over,
[when I
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(that I live) in Queensland I get signed up °to an°
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employ↓ment pla:↑ce, (1.0) and (they got assi:gned
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to me and they have to help me out (1.0)
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yeah (1.5) ye- plus they get shitloads of money
(
) [helping] you anyway=
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L:
[yea:::h]
=I’m gonna wait
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till I get all that crap from the real estate ‘cause
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I need it to change my address (0.7)
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G:
yeah=
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=you go to Centrelink (0.8)
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wha[t >did the< real estate sa]:y when did you=
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L: toda:y (0.8)
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what’d they say
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said they send out- (.) I’ve gotta fill in (1.9)
[(
)]
=ring ‘em?
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like (.) apply for the place >or whatever< fill in
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all th[at crap from before like (
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[<yeah but you can’t be: you can’t] (0.8)
be on the (0.8)
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till the next le:ase
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[yeah] (.) [which is like (
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[but]
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[Sam thinks she’ll put me on]
something >I don’t [know< °that’s what she] said
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[yeah >so you’re just-<] (.)
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you’re just a tenant sort of thing you’re just like-
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(2.7) °u(h):m (1.3) rentin’ a ro[:om
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[yeah that’s what
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I said I need it for centrelink pretty much (.)
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(like being where
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it’s gonna be abo:ut
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are) (0.8)
°yeah° you’ll be like rentin a room till the next
lea:se and the next lease is twelve months (0.8)
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it’s just a year (0.5)
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par↑don?
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it’s only a year (lease)?
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yea:↓:↑h what’s twelve months?=
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=oh: yeah I thought y[ou said (
)]
[yeah oh: yea:h] °whatever°
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(1.6) and that’s all she sa:↓id (1.2) that you
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just gotta a:sk the landlord (1.1)
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>you gotta< do that anyway
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((banging noise, four times))
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(4.8)
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I don’t think you’ll have any problems (0.8)
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should (
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oh: ↑so↓ you gotta ha:nd in all that [st]uff too
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la:st flat) for five ye:ars, (0.8)
[no]
bu:t I’ll have to write that ↑on↓ the:re, (4.9)
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°that’ll be ↓al↑right° (3.0) doesn’t matter anyway
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it’s just for Centrelink otherw:ise I wouldn’t
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bother (3.5)
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°what° (0.4) I don’t think he’ll say no anyway↓
↑he’s a young bloke, (1.9)
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°he’s° a chick (0.4)
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HUh:?
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oh the bloke who owns this ho[use
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[ye]a:h we’ve met him
(1.2) seems alr:ight (2.4)
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is he hot? (0.7)
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is [he HOT]
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[he’s a] fuckin’ ranga:
[hhhh] ↑huhh ( [
)]
oh: >that’s< al↑ri:ght=
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=yeah:: you like °rangas° do ya, (.) blood↓nuts
(1.0)
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>what do you< mea:n you met him
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we me(h)t hi(h)m WHAT- wha[t do you think It mea]n
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[(did he come around)]
(1.3)
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he mowed the la:wn=
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=°ah:°=
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=and we come ho:me and °met him- I met him (.)
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said hello:° (3.2) is he hot (.) well he’s a ranga:
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[it- (.)
[>do you ↑know any] rangas=
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[so::, °i don’t [(
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=that are hot=
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↓who (1.2)
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(
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yea[::h
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[a no:rmal bloke-] (.) who?=
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[Josh Hommy is hot]
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who’s he: (0.7)
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>he’s the redheaded bloke from queens of the
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)°
=yeah I do::
)
[queens of the stonea:ge, (1.3)
=josh hommy: (0.3)
stoneage<
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(2.0) °ah
(6.1)
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how’s your RSVP goin’ (1.8)
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I’m o:ver it (1.0)
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oh >you got< rejected
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>I got rejected from some of the< blokes,
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↑ye:ah, (1.2)
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↑ye(h):s↓ it’s a >little bit< devastating when
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>you’re getting< rejected yourself,
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what >did they< sa:y
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thanks for the ki:ss ↓bu::t (0.7) I don’[t think=
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=it will wor:k between us (1.4)
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well that’s fuck[in’ sca:ry woman]
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[what-
[I’m just like ah(h)]: (.)
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>how would you< kno::w >you don’t even know me
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and I keep thinkin’ yeah I’m doin’ the same thing
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to these ↑oth↓er people< (1.4)
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what ↓did ↑the:y send you one? (0.5) ↓or [did you
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[yeah: I
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send them]
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↑send th]em thank you but I don’t think it will
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work between us (0.7)
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yeah but before they rejected ya did you send=
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=some of them have (3.8)
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>what happened to that< gu:y you were: >gonna meet<
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(2.2)
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I didn’t wanna: have (.) a date (.) on Thur-
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Tuesday ‘cause I didn’t have any money so I said
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can we do it Thursday an’ he said nah (.) busy
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(1.1) we can do it next week an’ I’m like >yeah
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whatever< (2.6) no one’s that busy (1.5) to have
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a drink like °for fuck’s sake° (2.9)
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↑WHAt (1.4) no one’s that busy=
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he sou:nds like a player (0.6)
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he I::S
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he’s busy: ye:ah ri::ght (0.9) no one’s that busy
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(0.7) I[’m gonna mee:t-]
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[you shouldn’t go] for the young ones
a[nyway]
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[I’m go]nna meet anothe:r player bastar:d (.)
°like levi°
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>why don’t you< go with (Peter
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>I haven’t< MET anyone really (1.4) I’ve got
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) (1.8)
internet datin[g I’m (.) gettin des]perate (0.6)
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[hh
.h hh
Hhh:]
n[o(h): (one)]
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[hhh .hh hhh] hhhhhha .hh hh ha .hhhh (2.2)
h(h)hh (4.9) °ah:, you’ll be alright,
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