Conversation Transcript (Abi & Brianna)
Annika: “Abi you’re wrecking the field!”
Abigail: “Sorreee (Repeated sound for emphasis)”
Annika: “Keep your hands to yourself.”
Brianna: “Do you guys remember like (Verb filler), when they graffitied the field?”
Annika: “Yes!”
Abigail: “I wasn’t here for that.”
Annika: “Oh my god!”
Brianna: “It was so funny!”
Annika: “They like, didn’t they get fined or something?( Verbal filler )”
Brianna: “They got like weedkiller.”
Abigail: “Oh yeah, didn’t they like spray it in the quad? Or on the field?”
Annika: “Yeah they did some on the quad as well. ( Adjacency pairs – question then answer)”
Brianna: “Yeah they got weedkiller and like, drew inappropriate things.”
Abigail: “Oh…”
Brianna: “It was quite funny.”
Annika: “Didn’t Mr Hose say they got fined or something?”
Abigail: “Yeah they probably did. Coz (Dialect – typical of youths around our area ) its like… bad stuff, what, what is it?”
Annika: “Yeah they had to, they had to re- like – ”
Brianna: “It cost a lot of money”
Abigail: “Huhuh (Filler). Wasn’t it a leaving prank or something?”
Annika: “Yeah”
Brianna: “Yea`h, I wonder what Jessie and Stirling -”
Abigail: “Oh, they banned all the pranks last year.”
Brianna: “Did they?”
Abigail: “And they said that if anyone like did any pranks they would get like ex -”
Brianna: “Well they can’t get expelled coz they’re leaving.”
Abigail: (interrupts Brianna at they’re) “Well, no, they, they would get a fine or s-something (Stuttering, shows a bit of hesitation or second-guessing) or rather (Brianna: “That sucks (Metaphor)“) I’m not really sure.”
Annika: “What did they do last year?”
Abigail: “They, they couldn’t do it last year coz there was a big punishment.”
Brianna: “That’s, not, really fair.”
Abigail: “They didn’t do anything they weren’t allowed.”
Annika: “You sure?”
Abigail: “Yeah”
Brianna: “Yeah they did?! Didn’t they?”
Abigail: “No coz Sam was gonna (Dialect – typical to youths in this area) do one but he couldn’t do it coz he would have got like a serious
Annika: (interrupts at “like”) “Has Sam left?!”
Abigail: “Yeah”
Annika: “Oh my god!”
Brianna: “He’s in year 13 last year.”
Abigail: “Yeah he moved yesterday.”
Annika: “Where’s he going?” (Brianna says simultaneously “Yesterday?”)
Abigail: “Or the, day before or something he’s going to um, (Filler) Canterbury.”
Brianna: mumbles unidentifiable sound
Annika: “Oh cool.”
Abigail: “Engineering.”
Annika: “Oh, like Luke!”
Brianna: “Sounds like Sam, that smart unidentified mumbling”
Annika: gasp “That’s so cool”
Abigail: “All of the boys in year 13 that have, like, half a brain, (metaphor) they’re all doing like engineering.”
Brianna: “Do you know what Georgia is doing?”
Annika: “Oh guys, this is like two minutes now.”
Abi: “Oh she’s, she’s taking a gap year.”
The End!