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now. The floods come in and take that material down to someone else’s place, and if they don’t do nothing about it, well that’s their fault. But they trying to but the blame on me, right now.
NC:187 That thing doesn’t work. You know I get some now, the one I harvesting. We didn’t do
crops for two years, a little more, three years. We didn’t plant anything. And then we work on it. It still get sick. They say we didn’t rest the land. I say, “It’s been over two years and not been used. How do you
account for that?” You know, the University guys, they cannot tell me. They came up and one of them is a doctor a Filipino doctor
WK:694 Well, she say, “Son, if I was you, don’t do anything to hurt other people. Just ask them for
forgiveness.” She always believe in church work too, you see. “When other people hurt you, you just forgive them for their wrong doing, whatever they do wrong. Just forgive them, that’s all. Let God take
care the rest.”
YA:1052 Not, I didn’t do it. I just only go together with the gang. WK:700 Our assignment is. My grandfather used to tell me, “Eh, after school you come back, eh.
Go do your job, you know. Before you go play, you do your job.” And they very strict about it. “And then, if you don’t do ’em, you won’t have no supper, you know.”
5.41.4 Examples of no
5.41.4.1 no THINK The following canonical examples use no to negate THINK:
ER:900 I no see. Get water maybe only hole for the goat or for the rain water. But I no think get
fresh water for drink. Because I went way inside there, way inside till the end, the road. walk, go inside but narrow. Get water inside there, but I think maybe that’s rainwater. That’s not spring water.
FD:289 But I told him, “I seen that already, but I didn’t want to tell your uncle. I told him when the leaves is yellow, is showing that some kind of disease is attacking the taro.” But he doesn’t believe. He
just go pull the grass, and then just no think nothing. I say, “Well, I have to pray harder.” For put something in his head to think, “Oh, I think my wife is telling me something different so I better try.” He
doesn’t want anybody to tell him what to do.
ER:900 Yeah. Hauola, I no think so get water. YA:1053 In the machine shop, they no think about it. Outside of that, in town, they think I was.
But in the machine shop, they no think I was a Japanese. But Japanese think I was Japanese, though. When I walk on the street, all Japanese, they bow their head, they say, “Good morning,” and all kind.
Because they think I was Japanese, too, eh?
YA:1067 I don’t know. But I never thought of how many get die or no die. I no think about that,
see? Somebody get killed, but, you know, we no pay no attention. That’s small stuff. We only care for ourself. In case our house no push away, we lucky, that’s all.
5.41.4.2 no WANT The following canonical examples use no to negate WANT:
ER:799 Yeah, everybody. They take turn. Maybe if you no like go, eh, you tell you no like go. I go
take your place, I go work Sunday. AK:668 He’s the only eyewitness that saw the tidal wave. Ah Puck. If you try ask him, he tell you.
Because he went down the beach, when he saw that. He saw this waves, big waves, eh. He no want to go out. He take his family, run. The family, he came by my house. And then, Robert Kahele was. The
uncle, Solomon Kala, was. And two of the nephews, I think was. One Filipino. AK:614 The one who want to go help. They call that limalau, to get together and work. They had,
those days, that one. But, like today, with this younger generation, you tell them, “Oi, come help me clean my side.” They no like you come help clean.
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BB:025 “Shee, why you never wait little bit longer.” I figured kin’ of good, so I wen buy ’em. I no like mess my mother, like that, everytime move, move, move; eh. Pack up and go, eh. Tired so, I cannot.
ER:754 I no like go school too much. I like go ride horse every time with my father. FD:292 Well, I don’t know. Maybe they like, but the wife. But the one in Hilo, he like, but he get
good job, he no like leave his job. He work 11.60 an hour. He get good job, good job that boy. He like.
GF:341 So they start out talking about me. “God damn, my boss raise all lehua taro. I like him raise
apii, he no like raise apii. He like raise lehua because lehua better money. He get 50 cents more on every bag.” I told him, “Well, I think you can get me some apii seed.” “How many?” “Oh, 10,000 all
right.” “Ho, what’s the matter, too much now, one time?” “Well, if I going raise apii, I might as well start big. So the next crop I don’t have to go here and there look for seed.”
JL:12 Den I move down heah from Makalahao. Gettin too mucha dat purebred cattle, eh? Mr.
Carter no like keep no mo record. He say, “You move down Waimea with two thousand head of purebred cattle. Turn em out all. Only keep fifty.” Makalahao, that’s what dey using now. Make
pedigreed. Dat two thousand too much humbug. Leggo. Poho nuf foh one. JL:10 Well, when I was a young boy – nine year old, I tink; nine or ten – Alfred Carter send me to
Kamehameha School. He was our manager here dat time. Before Alfred Carter was Paul Jarrett. Das during Sam Parker’s time. Paul Jarrett. Bymby, Mr. Carter – they appoint him guardian for Richard
Smart’s mother, Thelma. So, Mr. Carter run the ranch. He put all dis pipeline here from top till top Mauna Kea. Mr. Carter no want.
MM:356 No choice. No choice. Really no choice. If you no like work, you going be loafer. What
you get? You no get nothing. Yeah, no choice. MM:358 No, I had lot of shirts, yeah, but that’s why I say, only Monday and Wednesday we
change, eh? We no can change every day. And then, you know, you pity your old lady. Not like today, you get washing machine. Oh, those days, all go like this, eh? You no want see your mother every day.
MM:359 Hood, yeah. Because, you know, the sticky, eh? Your neck get sticky. Yeah, they used to
make. But the thing hot, I no like. You know, the thing cover your head and ear, eh? Hot, you know. NK:931 But we say, “We no like eat the daikon, bumbai fut, fut.”
TA:52 I don’t have ’em in my patch yet. That’s why when I get seed, when I go borrow seed, or buy seed, I look where the taro, the seed come from. I no like bring ’em over here. Sometime I leave my
patch empty for four, five months, until I get the good seed. I no like bring the disease this side. WK:722 Now nobody. Only me. My boy, lazy bugga, that old bugga. He no like work for nothing.
Lazy boy, that. YA:1066 Real dirty. They take the first coat for eat; the second coat for make ice cream, da kine,
eh; and pau. Another one, they no like, see. That’s how they make salt cabbage, salt meats, salt pork, any kind. They use that.
YA:1040 I don’t know how much, I forget already. Little bit, anyway. So, I wen go Hawaiian Electric. Hawaiian Electric open. They pay me forty-five dollar every two week, I think, you know. Then
I no want to take the job, see? Too small. Bumbai, they tell me, “No, you have bonus.” So, then I take the job for little while. Was good job, but I no like. They send me out, go house to house, go read meter.
Uh, the house to house. Da kine grass, like that tall. You go walk all over. The water wet. You wet your feet. You won’t last long. Bumbai, you get rheumatism. You no can walk bumbai. So, I quit the job.
5.41.4.3 no SAY The following canonical examples use no to negate THINK:
ER:757 No. They no tell me like that because me kolohe boy, you know, that time. ER:775 I no say nothing.
ER:777 Well, when I small, I like ride horse. When they been telling me go over here, go plant grass over here, go up the mountain, and when my cousin tell me, “You gotta go ride horse today,” ho, I
no tell no. I like ride horse. Tell me...
316 ER:877 Big money the stevedore, because they get overtime, too. I think almost hundred ninety
dollar. So I take home my paycheck my first week and show Uncle Lew them, he tell me, “Eh, big money you make.” And then bumbai, I no tell him I winch operator already, eh.
YA:1048 The superintendent said, “This boy do more work than my machinists can do. But he do good work.” Bumbai, down from the labor board, he send one application down to the office. The
superintendent tell me, “Come in the office. They want to see you in the office.” I thought, “Chee, now they going fire me.” You know. No, I go inside the office, they tell me–they put the blank out–and they
tell, “You sign here.” And I signed there. He no tell me, “You get promotion,” or what. And then, bumbai, little while, pay day, I get more pay. Then I think, “Oh, how come?” Then I asked the
superintendent. “What I sign the paper for?” “Oh, you get promotion.”
5.41.4.4 no DO The following canonical examples use no to negate DO:
NK:924 Yeah. They no do that. Because they always... NK:924 ...or knife. Hawaiians, they no do that.
NK:942 She said that. Because she no do hard work. No more outside pull grass, like that. YA:1047 You got to go fry ’em up. You clean ’em, you know. Take the guts out and clean ’em nice,
eh? And they no more scale, you know. Catfish no more scale. Cut the head off, cut the tail off, and put in the frying pan. Fry ’em crispy, see. Fry ’em very crispy. And then, put ’em inside the pot with half pot
of water. Then put da kine black beans inside the pot, see. But the black beans, already soaked, you know, inside another container. Then put ’em together. Then boil ’em. Boil until the fish all melt, soft
already, everything. Then, the soup so good. And then, everybody drink one bowl of soup. Ooh, the ono, da kine soup. Yeah, that’s all. That’s all we do in our days. We no do nothing. We learn how to make
shrimps, learn how to make dry fish, eh?
5.41.4.5 no GOOD There are several canonical examples of predicative GOOD being negated through no:
AK:637 Saddlemaking, well, maybe anybody can make. But the idea of making saddle is, when you get everything all done like this. Or, you get everything all completed, and you put on the animal’s back.
Some saddles doesn’t fit. You know, some horses, they’re broad, some horses, they small. And then, when you put on horse, like around here, this place here, it start eating the horse back. Get hurt, eh.
Then, maybe the saddle no good, see. Sometimes the saddle glide on the horse neck you know. Even though you get the hinge on. It goes down. But some saddle doesn’t run, you know.
AK:656 After they bar out the Prenite, so you cannot use Prenite anymore. So they come out with diesel oil. Then they come out, now, they have Paraquat and they have all kind poisons. Those poisons
are good in one way, some not. Maybe someplace for something. I think Waipio, for kill grass. But I think for the taro patch no good.
BB:011 They pay my father with the liquor because they no mo’ money. That’s why my father he don’ know where for put; so, he dig underneath the house and bury ’em. And plenty guys they come my
house for buy the okolehau, because they know my father get plenty. [name deleted], is the guy, wha- tyou-call, he’s my father’s boss. ’A’s why you know, “Hey, hey no make the kin’ already Ibara, by’n’by
you get caught no good. You come make coffin, down there.”
EB:1142 Yeah. Because this not contract. You can fill up one bag, two bag. If you like go home, you can go home. The owner of the coffee say, “You no can go home.” Up to you. Not like the
plantation, eh? After that, I think, “About this coffee, no good.” No can do. I was thinking to go back Honolulu.
ER:768 That time we no more icebox. We just bring ’em and leave ’em inside the bottle, in the salt.
No more icebox. Just leave ’em like that until that thing come dry. If dry, no good, I throw ’em away.
317 ER:786 Most time they get from Parker Ranch. Parker Ranch, the bull, then they keep. Then
sometime, they keep some over here. The young ones they try keep. Then if they look good, then they keep ’em. But if they say no good, then they butcher. That’s how they...
ER:786 That’s why you pick up ten, they put ’em inside one pen. Then the chief cowboy, he go look. He look, he look. If he think okay, he tell you, “Okay you get ’em all, good.” But if he think this
one no good, then he call you come. He tell, “You look this one, you compare this one to this.” So I look what’s the difference. Then he tell you what the difference. You look, but you tell him, “Shee, I don’t
know the difference. To me, look like the same.” “No, this one narrow, this one heavy build, bull, short, heavy. This one long, no more.” He tell you all this kind, and you gotta think every time, eh, how they
tell you.
ER:788 Yeah. He teach young boys, too. He teach, and he good. He no mad, this man. No matter what you do to him, he no mad. Hard old man for get mad. You get mad with him, you can grumble
grumble, no, he no say nothing. Bumbai he tell you, “Why you come mad like that. No good. You gotta be good to all the people. No come mad.”
ER:811 Yeah, kickapoo, the pineapple kind. They make, they drink. And sometime they come in
the stable. Sometime the cowboys, they make their own with da kine rice, I think, yeah. But no good, the cowboys’ one. Sometime when they ready for it, they go inside there, plenty cockroach. They make
the cockroach like this and put the... ER:811 And sometime he tell me, “Ey, we go down tonight.” “Nah, I no like go down nighttime. I
like go down daytime, so I can go get some meat.” Give some fish for them guys. Only me I go, and I go eat free kaukau, no good, eh. And then I tell, “Nah, we go shoot goat. You and me.”
ER:813 I don’t know. He like for the cattle. But the koa no good because the time I young I see
plenty ranch, they no like. They like try hemo ’em. But he maybe like koa for the cow. But he no think the koa going come big. Bumbai, the stick about like this, you no can go through. Hard, you know. If
only the young one like that, all right, the cow can eat ’em, eh. But now, you look, all hana pa‘a. Hard for go through.
ER:815 One guy he push that thing, he think that’s when the taro come get da kine lump, maybe we no strain ’em good, eh. Bumbai he push away, he see the tail, he say, “Ey, we eating rat” “Where?”
“Look the tail” “Eeeeeee.” Everybody run outside, go ah, ah, no can. Tell, “No sense, you eat already.” Bumbai some other boys tell, “Ey, we no say nothing. Leave ’em go the other guys go eat.” “Nah, no
good, throw away. No eat ’em, throw away”
GF:324 “...Then we got to haul our grain over the mountains, down the valleys and till we reach there, take us about one day, And what cattle we sell, we pay tax. What pigs we sell, we pay tax. And
then you folks cannot help us?” Kealoha, he say, “How much you want? You quote how much you need. You go hire somebody and the County pay.” See, Kealoha was good. And Mahuka was good. Sam
Spencer, he was good. Otherwise, other guys no good. They only....
GF:339 Yeah, I sell to other markets too. When I sell to other markets, they want more. I tell, “Well, that’s all I get.” Then they tell me, “Damn good taro.” But my father-in-law say, “No, your taro no
good, no good.”
GF:339 Yeah, selling to Mock Chew. I was raising for the fun, just to learn about taro. Whether it’s
good, or no good, he always say no good. “Not good grade, not good grade.”
MM:348 Sit down, and you coach ’em, coach ’em, eh? Then he start to stand up and start to walk.
You can see ’em already, knock out, you know. He just go slow walk, eh? I think to myself, “This is no good already. More better we go home.”
MM:360 Dark, you know. And then, who way in the end of the track, when the train stop and that fella still had to walk about half a mile yet to the working place, he going start late, eh? He going start
maybe about 6:30. So, the manager, he come check, you know. Yeah, he wen come check with me one time. But good thing, I seen him first. If he seen me first, no good. I seen him first, see.
MT:1177 And with this kind of people, you cannot depend on them because today they might be working, they won’t come work three or four days later. Another day, they might be back again. So then
you have to go and do it yourself. Make sure you have a schedule. Any manager has a schedule he has to
318 follow. He has his things to do. With these people, you cannot depend on it. Some of them, I don’t say
all, some of them is pretty good. But not all. I figure 25 percent is good, 75 percent is no good.
MY:1482 So when I told the president that I cannot take that job, boy, he shake my hand, boy. He
said, “You real good man. You loyal to one boss. That’s what I like. That’s a good man.” He no tell me no good. He tell me, “You good. That’s very, very good. You are very loyal to your boss. That’s what’s
good.” MY:1475 We catch all the fish, we put ’em inside one big da kine fish trap. Then, this guy from
Yanai, the peddler, he come buy the fish. I tell my grandfather, “The peddler crooking you.” Japan, when they come, they no more scale. They get da kine weight. The thing here is long, so they balance it
with a.... “I think the thing no good,” I tell him. NK:918 No, no good. Yeah, the taro root will cut, and then taro no good for poi. They come all
spoil. So, that’s why, we were saying, seven month, leave the taro like that, cover all up. And we no work no more.
NK:932 Yeah, no good. The kids. Ho, if you miss one lesson and if you make mistake, they call
you, “Stupid, stupid.” SU:1521 Then, hammer, we don’t know. So I just bought the hammer. I figure, well, light hammer
is better. No, light hammer is no good. Medium-size hammer is good. So every time when you near, you smash your finger, see. Then, same time, when you use the kanna, you don’t know how to use the kanna.
You know, Japan kanna. SU:1525 And come home time, we run. Because in the morning when you run and go, we sweat,
everything, no good, eh? But come home time, we don’t care, sweat or no sweat. That’s what we used to do. But me, fortunately I was lucky because I had my uncle at Hilo. Yeah.
YA:1073 We move over here, we stay here till now. I still living here. And now, my wife passed away, but I still no like move away from this place here. I like to stay in the house myself. My daughter
tell me move up her house and stay. Aiea. I say, no, no good. Go up Aiea, you not convenient. You no can catch the bus. You no can. Over here, you just walk outside there, get the bus, see? That’s why I like
live here.
5.41.4.6 no PLACE There are no canonical examples of negated predicative PLACE. There is a single good near-canonical
place predication negated with no: ER:772 So, I walk on. Bumbai I walk up there, my aunty see me, ’cause my aunty she know me.
When my aunty tell to the husband, she tell, “The boy look like Ernest, yeah, coming up.” My uncle tell, “Nah, that’s not him. He no stay Lana‘i.” “But look like that’s him. He coming.” Bumbai, I see, I come
near the house. I laugh, I make my hand like that. My aunty tell my uncle, “Yeah, that’s him, look, he waving.” I go in there.
The following is also a possible example of a near-canonical place predication negated with no: ER:847 Oh, Munro time, yeah, we work about eight hours, and we start about six o’clock and we
go out. We go out maybe we pau hana three o’clock like that, eh, we reach home three o’clock pau hana. We no stay outside three o’clock and pau hana and come all the way. Maybe where we stay, maybe one
hour for us stay come home. By the time reach home going be three o’clock. Three o’clock or four o’clock. I think four o’clock we pau hana.
5.41.5 Examples of neva
