#kiwi slang

[type-40-nightingales]

Just found out hoon is kiwi slang??? Wtf do yall call vapes???

[ellenhenryart]

(via "Kiwi Slang Leshgo!" Magnet for Sale by ellenhenry)

[danvillecheese]

just realised i probably sound american bc i use “like” so much in my posts lmao

[c00kietin]

just taught my mum and dad that Nancy Sinatra was Frank Sinatra's daughter- I'm quite proud of myself :>

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

listening to some kiwi comedians and one of them just said "mouth full of concrete, dick full of diamonds" like it was a common turn of phrase? i will be saying this all the time now of course.

[lohstandfound]

18 38 44 :]

18: If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be, and what would you write about?

Actually, I think it would be really fun to collaborate with you on something. No idea what it would be, probably something to do with the popular kids. But I have no plot or anything in mind

Maybe my illustrator for recollections. I would love to collaborate with him since that is what we are supposed to be doing.

38: Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had

answered here

44: How much research do you do?

It really depends what I'm writing about. For the first royal pains piece, I had to look up like 3 things, which really isn't a lot.

Perhaps I should put in more research for general america things otherwise I'll be saying the characters are going on a maccas run or they're going to shout someone a drink which are things I have said/written that have confused people outside of New Zealand and Australia.

But for fanfiction, really not a lot of research goes into it. Deities au has me referring to my museum studies notes, or flower meanings for the hanahaki fics I've written.

For my graphic novel series, a decent amount of research has gone into it on my part. Sometimes it's the practical of planning a story, worldbuilding tips, map drawing, and all that. But since a large part of many character's power comes from deities, there has been research on the deities themselves, mythical weapons, religions surrounding those deities such as King Arthur, ancient Greek religion, cursed blades in Norse or Celtic mythology

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread      

Project Nought

queer YA sci-fi graphic novel set in Auckland

a boy from the 90s wakes up 100 years in the future, having been chosen for a time travel project sponsored by a leading tech company pairing uni students with people from the past

but all is not as it seems and a group of subjects and students discover the truth behind the project...

[datura-tea]

6 and 8 for kiwi?

6. a song lyric to describe their personal style: amakabogera - maymay estrada

lalakad na ala-beauty queen, awra ko will make you scream ganda kong nagniningning, lalo kang mapapatingin 'di ko na kailangan na magpaganda, dating ko pa lang, panalo na 'di ko need ng filters sa camera, naturang ganda'y ibandera (walk like a beauty queen, my aura will make you scream my shining beauty will really make you look i don't need to glam up, my presence is enough i don't need camera filters, i flaunt my natural beauty)

kiwi does not follow trends; trends follow them. they have confidence in spades, and that's even the wildest looks will look good on them. kiwi will wear anything as long as it isn't boring!

8. a song lyric that would make them feel Seen: cut to the feeling - carly rae jepsen

take me to emotion, i wanna go all the way show me devotion and take me all the way i wanna cut through the clouds, break the ceiling i wanna dance on the roof, you and me alone i wanna cut to the feeeling, whoa

the main downside of being kiwi is that their people never treat them seriously, and emotions are always so surface-level. kiwi doesn't want that! they want connection! someone to look past the glitz and glamor and see the person who'd stay up until 4am redoing their stitches because it didn't look right the first time!

[lovebugcody]

this will only be funny to a specific demographic of people that follow me but in my psych stats lecture, we were told about roy's largest root hehehe

[crabussy]

JUST LEARNED THAT SQUIZ. IS KIWI SLANG AND NOT A WORD IN THE AVERAGE PERSONS LEXICON

[diazsdimples]

Nau mai haere mai ki Aotearoa!!! We'd love to have ya! Watch out for prickles, hot sand and keas cause they're cheeky little fuckers and will steal the rubber from your tyres. Also if you say "kiwi bird" you will be escorted back to the border, the All Blacks reign supreme are better than the Wallabies (repeat that after me) and remember that Christopher Luxon is a fucking muppet and couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

When are we running away together to live in NZ with @diazsdimples ?

Anytime you want 😘😘( but I'm gonna make a plan to do it in 2025/26 1000% after i will submit those stupid term paper and translation)

We gonna have big found family with James and his husband, have big garden all together to plant veggies, fruits and flowers

P.s would u believe me i actually looked like Henry when i was drinking?

[mfmango]

COD MW HCS BECAUSE IM HYPERFIXATED

- ghost can go really long without blinking. Will win staring contests no questions asked

- this is canon but once when soap and alejandro cooked tgt, it was alejandro trying to show soap how to cook a Mexican dish and failed horribly and they ended up burning it

- makarov has peak childhood trauma. his mother was NOT nice to him and he hides his emotions well but yuri knows like, some of it but knows not to ask cause makarov gets angry asf

- if makarov ever or has let a woman into his life, if they ever show any motherly traits he will fall fast but end up distancing himself bc he doesn't like feelings. silly old man

- price is afraid of minions.

- gaz once said soap looks like he wears pup gear at pride parades. soap has never recovered since

- gaz is also zesty as FUCK. Not straight in the slightest

- rodolfo/rudy and alejandro talk shit about people in spanish

- valeria is painfully good at cooking and she cooks the best rice ever

- gaz has taught price some MLE (londoner slang basically)

- gaz has 3 nike techs

- ghost is shit at cooking. makes banger tea tho

- price and laswell get into arguments about small things, and usually stupid shit as well (i.e if cats or dogs are better)

- ghost had a comic book collection, a lot of dc comics, mostly batman comics

- soap knows a lot of facts about oddly specific

- rodolfo/rudy is quiet. doesn't speak much, even around alejandro

- alejandro does a lot of the talking when he's watching rodolfo/rudy

- price hates kiwi (the fruit)

- soap once called gaz a batty boy/batty man (a way of calling someone gay in British slang, mostly London slang)

- ghost has picked up small scottish phrases from soap

- makarov is secretly heteroflexible/bi but only likes femininity, at the end of the day he just wants to relieve stress if ykwim

- makarov also found himself reading a lot as a child and read a lot of literature, even reads in his free time

- makarov was always very good at school, but once his father died he began working twice or triple as hard just to impress his mother but miserably failed, and that was the start of him overworking himself

- not a hc but can u tell I rlly like makarov

[kings-highway]

haikyuu esl accent headcanons ig miyagi prefectural edition

Karasuno

- Kageyama and Hinata are both idiots and barely pass english to begin with but I like to imagine Karasuno has an english teacher that studied/came from somewhere in Canada, so they (and all of Karasuno) end up with a classic mix of American/British vocabulary

- Daichi s u c k s at english and can barely pass the class but his accent is PERFECT and when he manages to put together an actual sentence you wouldnt believe he was esl

- by contrast Suga BREEZED through english classes, absolutely nailing the written, aural and reading portions but got <10% on his spoken exam because he's absolutely incomprehensible and cannot get his accent down

- Tsukishima and Yamaguchi get the highest grades in english out of all of Karasuno, but both of them inexplicably picked up a british accent (southern more, london area) and they refuse to admit that it's because of the sheer volume of Great British Bake-Off they've watched/had on in the background while doing homework.

- Noya and Tanaka both failed english their first year but realized if they convinced Suga and Daichi, separately, to tutor them, they could get a passing grade

- somehow Suga and Daichi have never considered helping each other

- Asahi is not the best at english but he is their english teacher's favourite

Shiratorizawa

- Ushijima obviously speaks with an american accent when speaking english bc he practices most often with his father (west coast american accent, then)

-as a result the whole of Shiratorizawa kinda does the same because of subconsciously trying to mimic Ushiwaka

- with the exception of Tendou (who ends up bastardizing his english with a french accent??? he ends up damn near a polyglot but is incomprehensible in every language)

- and semi, who ends up with a more british accent (from the north, though) due to the british guitar teacher he takes lessons from. the rest of shiratorizawa absolutely tear him apart for this but he doesnt even realize he's doing it and has picked up british slang (trolley, jumper, lift) when speaking english

- Stz's english program is Very Good but their professors are all very old and mean and as a result most of the team developes a deep hatred of studying english/going to language classes in general

Aoba Johsai

- I like to imagine Aoba Johsai has a really fantasic english teacher/program, but they partnered with an abroad exchange to do so and have a disproportionate about of New Zealanders and Aussies teaching

- So the third years are all pretty fantastic with their english but the other schools hear them speak and are like "that CANNOT be right" because they all have heavy kiwi accents that the others have never heard

- inexplicably Kyotani has a much more distinct North American accent (probably somewhere eastern, great lakes area) and he Will Not explain himself until he begrudingly admits that he's actually started learning english when he was really young from an American teacher and is VERY GOOD but has been intentionally throwing tests so that nobody would ask him to tutor them

- first/second years ask him to tutor them immediately upon learning this and he refuses

- Oikawa is irritatingly good at languages, and has to force Iwaizumi to study. Iwa is usually pretty good with keeping on top of school work but he just HATES conjugations and tenses and has no memory for it.

- once Oikawa realizes the other schools are making fun of their english accents/professors, he works out the dialects of thr other english countries and just switches between then depending on who he's speaking to. the rest of seijoh hates this because when he's not using the kiwi accent they cannot understand him.

[soup-mother]

I'm glad to be finally accumulating kiwi friends. i remember being like "it'd be nice to know more kiwis I've always wanted to be pals with someone over the tasman" and lo and behold I'm inundated with them now. everyone's saying "chur" and pretending "scroggin" is a uniquely kiwi slang.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Had unfortunate reason to look at kiwi farms recently and it’s amazing what a linguistic-cultural living fossil it is. It’s an immaculately preserved embodiment of the zeitgeist and internet slang of 2012, valiantly bucking all progress or devolution, but still freshly applied to contemporary developments with the most soullessly vicious petty cruelty the human mind can muster

Like a r/justneckbeardthings of the right!