Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Hong Kong + Taiwanese — HK2 : 1990

S1 = Taiwanese female
S2 = Hong Kong male

Context: S2 has been talking about the cost of raising children, claiming that in America, it costs one million dollars to put a child through the whole of education, including university. He has now started talking about the food students eat in university.

S2 : ... breakfast you know lunch (.) dinner all buffet (.) all you can eat (.) and then you know the kid also (.) f- freshman the first year they maybe one hundred fifty pound (.) when they f- graduate you know four year later. sometime they will be no matter girl or guys (.) two hundred pounds at least

S1 : pounds

S2 : yeah pounds. because they eating every day you know everything you know every you know time all you can eat

S1 : oh you mean

S2 : get weight

S1 : the weight (.) mm

S2 : because we’re using not kilogram (.) still american <1> using pounds </1>

S1 : <1> are using </1> pounds (.) ah

Intended Words : pounds

Discussion : Because the conversation has been about money, S1 misunderstands the use of pounds to refer to currency (because she is more familiar with the UK rather than the USA). She asks for clairification, and then she realises it is a unit of weight.