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I thought kiwis spoke English.
They do have a funny way of speaking it.
Git off my dick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbazGVrbN-g
All my friends have been on my deck.
https://youtu.be/ZdVHZwI8pcA
They say "LILILILILILI!" Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.
My favorite author is a kiwi who writes In English and teaches it, but for all I know she sounds like the video
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