How to spik to a New Zealander about sustainability issues
Posted by Andrew Eagles on Tue, Nov 22, 2011
The team at Sustainable Homes have been a bit frustrated lately. They have received a few
calls from perfectly speaking English speakers wanting help understanding uncouth twangy antipodeans.
We thought a useful reference list would assist. We have compiled a list of words that often come up in our work. For all those that work in construction - Please print off and secure to your “disk” for easy reference.
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One Doze
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These can significantly increase heat loss from the home if they are single glazed.
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Ear
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Mixture of nitrogen and oxygen
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Guess
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A vapour
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Duffy Cult
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Not easy – as in Code level sux is vury duffy cult compared with code level five
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Amejen
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Visualise – as in “I amejen we will build to passivhaus levels in the future”
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Iggs Eckily
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Precisely- as in “sustainability is not eggs eckily rocket science. Ut is about ear tightness and good vin tu latian. That will control the ear flow”.
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Sex
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One less than seven
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Thur mal Brudge
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As in “these walls are rubbish. There is some thur mul brudging near the one doze”
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Beard
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A thing you sleep in. Such as “This house is listed as a sex bed under Housing Quality Indicators”
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Jungle Bills
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A Christmas carol- We sung hips of jungle bells at the bbq at chrusmus
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We thought these might help
Have a great week. Best of luck with spiking with all those New Zealanders out there!
