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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on the Wild Wild Web, but more than
fifty percent of the UK couldn't get this basic grammar
question correct.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How will John o' and Meaghan fair next.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Welcome to the untanged realm of the world's wide Web,
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wild wild Web. This is the wild Wild Web.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Welcome belong to another edition of the wild wild Web,
where we like to chat about something that we've seen
on the wild place as the Internet. There's all sorts
of you guys. You've both been playing some videos at
the moment. While I'm doing that.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I'm watching because everyone's going on about Ariana Grande how
she's changed her voice for Glinda, and so there's an
interview where she's talking and then she's a la la
la la, and it completely changes halfway through. I mean,
she could talk over how she wants to do it.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
She said the audio when she was acting in the
younger Nickelodeon or Disney whatever it was where she first started,
and it was her voice.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Was very irritating what was the show? Friend know, she
was net Selena? What was Arias? It was Antress?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Yeah, yeah, I plugged the old computer and it is really.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I have a soft spot for Arianna.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I think she looks cool. She's cool, she's.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Been through she's been through a lot in her.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Career, victorious.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
You're right, Yeah, And I met her and she could
not have been more nice.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So she was so sweet and it's fine, but she
can still have an annoying voice.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We got an annoying voices that you're like, yeah, that's not perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
What were you watching, Johnna?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Were you watching a video?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh no, it was just a herald video. Yeah, it
was not interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
He so, yeah, more than fifty percent of the UK
I couldn't get this basic grammar question correct, according to
I don't know why the testing adults on gramdmar, because
grammar is very it can be confusing, right, But I
want to read it out to you and see how
you guys go on this as well. Okay, So, which
is the correct way to say the sentence grammatically? It
really has made the world of difference to William and I,
(02:14):
or it really has made the world of difference to
William and me.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, William and I, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
So I thought in this day and age it could
be both because it used to be William and I,
but I thought they changed it so it could be either.
Now it made the world of difference to William and I.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So apparently the way you find out what's correct is
you take the William out of it and then you
work out of it still kind of makes sense. So
it really has made the world of difference to I.
Doesn't make sense difference to me, apparently.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Would you say Ben and I?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, because I feel like, yeah, because when I always
got in trouble, my dad was a school teacher, so
he was very hot on stuff that no one else was.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Yeah, I'm going down the country and then I go,
you know, David and me are going to go with
David and I go over, Oh, all right.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He's teaching every day pramatically.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And correctives I when it is the subject of the sentence,
and use me when it is the object of the sentence.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah. Sometimes I feel like for anyone learning, you know,
firstly English to start off with, there's a kid, but
also English is a second language.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Very yeah, it is when you look at stuff. Now
you're like what that doesn't make any sense?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeah, and then it changes and evolves too with checking.
I wonder if other languages add new words all the
time we're adding the Oxford dextuaries, Like here's the nine
hundred new words of checked in this year. So there's
a lot of language to learn if we're checking nine
hundred to a thousand new words in a year. Lingo
and slang too. Then you go to different you know,
you come to New Zealand and we are shocking, Yes,
(03:51):
yearn that's computer throw people.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah. Yeah, do you have a word that you use?
Yours is what's love? Your work, isn't it? That's a
phrasing crutch.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It drives my wife and saying do you have anything
that you'd use? Does it go to I used to say,
I say babes a lot? Oh yeah, so babes a lot?
Your babes?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I know, I know I type definitely a lot
in my emails and I don't know that because every
time I can't spell it correctly and a red line number,
we definitely needed to spell that wrong. So I know
I use that a lot in email. Sense my kids
used basically they start every story so basically, and I
just you just got a numb I'm a dad.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I'm like, you can tell me, but don't have to.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Basically, you know, it's not basically what a complicated story
everything is.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So basically here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
When it's writing, I always say ha ha ha a
lot oh yeah, or lots of exclamation marks.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
There, just to clarify that you're not being psychasic.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's what I try to do. Is that what you're
trying to?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, hah say something you like?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You don't, you know, it's a very hard to get
you know that the way people mean things over text.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, that's why you're right, ha was this?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
What was this?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Me?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Because the way you read something and the way you
intend it to be read.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, it's that great key and peel skitch. Yeah you
need to see that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We'll put a link cash he on our the hats
Breakfast Instagram. Very very funny. Have they sent each other text?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And just the way they can kind of misread a conversation.
Sarcasm a hard one to get across on email. You know,
you can come across quite you know, quite blunt and raw.
Can we like I was only a joke?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
So you do have to add the haha excavation marks,
and I noticed gin zers do a good job of
having a dig but then adding a nice emoji at
the end.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I trying to cancel it all out with fun mate.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I used to be like real sarcastic, but I've tried
to turn it down because I don't think it's always
received very well.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
On email, just all the time, on general all the time.
It's a hard.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Gauge to know sometimes with humor, right, you know, and
at what point and how far can you go?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Someone said I think it was a cameraman we went with.
He was like, it's a fine line between humor and
hurting someone's feelings. Joke okay, And it really stuck with me.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And then you're like, what was the joke really make
someone feel?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That's not you want? Is there anything that people say
that annoys you?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
There do you have again? Do you have a crucks
that you would get annoyed at?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I I always feel like people say I couldn't be prouder,
but I think you're supposed to say I couldn't be
more proud always. I don't know why. I think the
proper English back in the day was I couldn't be
more proud of them.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But you say I couldn't be prouder And you.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
What you don't like the word prouder, Well, I don't
think it's grammatically.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I couldn't be more proud of it.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
To be prouder of that, I measure sports people would
say could be sorry. I would say I couldn't be
prouder of that more proud. Sports people are not worried
too much about the grammar. When people say your boy
or your girl. When I sometimes boy your girls, it
(07:02):
feels quite a personal connection that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We maybe don't have. You say it's your boy. You know,
for me, maybe some people can pull it off. I can't.
So maybe that's where it comes from.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You should do some social videos that's your boy, your.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Boys, pant my water out.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I don't think yeah, no one's suddenly seven social videos
with Hey, guys, it's your boy, it's your boy.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You you know, like if I say that, maybe it's
because I can't pull it off.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Maybe boy boy?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
What makes me go with Sometimes when people say it,
I'm like, you're not but yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You're not my boy?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Texts John Key always you say texteds he texted me, Yeah, yeah,
he never.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Quite nailed there. Texted me.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
He like, just like if you think of just a
quick the New Zealand accent, and then he texted me
it was just the perfect one to take that around
the world.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah he did. He really does. When you listen to
his voice quite jarr. Yeah, he speaks quickly and it's inflection.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I like you, John, sorry about this right.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's great, but it's no, it's a great thing. It's great.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Brought the New Zealand language to the world. A guy
that used to work in New Zealand from overseas. His
theory was, we always use the vowel afterwards instead of
like eggs, we'll go eggs. You know, it's like the
next vowl along. Often we're like that. Living here for
a while. He's like, you guys, just flick to the
next one. It's like, it's not eggs, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
When you do when you do here in New Zealand,
next overseas, you're like, wow, it's secks out.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
It's when you're overseas and you get on the in
New Zealand plane and they're like, welcome to.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Some home plane. Basic now and.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Again we'll get in those surveys. They'll be like, it's
the fourth sixtieth accident in the world and you're.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Like, no, it's not.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I don't remember being fourth ever.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Sometimes oh yeah maybe, but it feels like we're not.
We know it, we're not and that's fine.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah, it's almost it's like our mounds don't open properly.
We're like, we just got to stuck.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
And yes, you never hear of New Zealand pornography doing
well on.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
The international market. That would be good, but taken away,
maybe that's something we can work on.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Oh morning, you take those clothes off?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, I have a are you key for?
It would be quite funny.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
What we should do is get pornography and voice over
it and see what it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Would be like. Or are you downloaded? Then fly on
the show? Oh yeah, yeah, good the work Wi Fi.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
We'll just download that.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Ye mean, do you want to tell me you should
do that? So there's one one where where we start.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We started with them grammatically incorrect sentence.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Of course we've taken it from Gramma to Paul slippery.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Slope of just it was it really was, But there
we go. That's the world Wilde Web for another week.
We'll be another week when I will be back tomorrow