HCE Candidates Examples of veri

224 5.29 VERY 5.29.1 Primitive Syntax The primitive VERY occurs in the following configurations: VERY GOODBADBIGSMALLMANY

5.29.2 HCE Candidates

The problem in HCE with VERY is the over-abundance of good candidates: veri, rio, and rili. In the following example, a speaker uses both rio and rili in the same discourse. NC:162 No, this is after the tidal wave. I replant. I go all over again. The tidal wave one, I just forget. We were pulling taro then. Do you know where Andrew’s section is? All that section was planted and the taro was real big. He got so disgusted he joined the Army. Ready for harvest, you know, and the taro was really big. You know, one taro get six to seven pounds. Some of the taro were still there but cannot be used; the salt water got them. So I start all over again, planted, and got about 6,000 bags. The first 3,000 bags I didn’t pull any, and the second 3,000 bags, I only harvested about, I think 1,200 bags, that’s all. He first states da taero waz rio big. However, in repeating his point and expanding his point, he states that da taero waz rili big. This is perhaps evidence that for some speakers, rili could be the more emphatic form. Generally speaking, however, I can find no difference between rio and rili. Nearly all speakers use all of these forms of VERY. Twelve speakers use rili, fifteen speakers use rio, and thirteen speakers use veri. Some of these gaps are significant. Notably, two speakers, ER and YA, do not contain any examples of rili. Since we have a large volume of texts from these speakers, this is very strong evidence that these speakers simply do not use the form. Likewise, since there are no examples of veri in the 31 pages of text from speaker BB, I believe it is safe to conclude that he does not use the form. If there is one form for veri which could be called universal in HCE, it would have to be the form rio. However, because all of the forms are so close semantically and so widely used, I have opted to include all of them in this survey.

5.29.3 Examples of veri

5.29.3.1 veri GOOD There are numerous canonical examples of veri and GOOD: AK:593 They accept me, they said, because I’m very good in anythings and kind and approach to them a nice way and talk to them. They really like it. They enjoy the way that I do with them. Because young boys down there, those days, they don’t get by with the old people. When they all get together among ourself, young guys. AK:595 No, no. Waipio never even saw this till today. Waipio is very, very good place to live. They have everything. And, of course, the first beginning I came Waipio, I didn’t know about anything of Waipio. You know, the food, the kind of eating all these things that get me there for awhile. AK:631 Yeah, he bring his Bible open in Hawaiian. He pray in Hawaiian. He prays in English. He’s good, very good. I don’t know, I would be one of them, but never did to try that. Well, with everything you do in medicine, you had to forgive yourself in order to be cured. FD:274 Yeah, I follow up how my mom does. When get cold like that, I used to heat that popolo, you know that purple, the seed. That is good, no matter what. Even for big people, like us grown up. You can chew ’em and swallow, it’s good, very good. And that cleans inside the tummy, all the mucous come 225 out. That’s what my mom said. Even if you have slight cold, she said, “Just chew and swallow.” It doesn’t matter. GF:347 Land valuation was, I think, maybe 100 an acre. I offered him 1,000 one acre that time. He had about 4-12 acres. Archie Baker answered that letter, he said, “Oh, that’s very good price. I willing to sell if Nelson Chun surrender the lease.” So he wrote to Nelson Chun and Nelson Chun didn’t want to surrender the lease. He said, “George Farm wants to buy the place.” “No, I need the place. ” But I was planting taro for Nelson Chun, that time. And I wanted to take it from under his feet. That’s why he never like. GF:348 They poor, they cannot buy books to give somebody to read about the Lord. That’s food. We don’t have everyday only food for our body. But our soul need food, too. You folks go church? You folks don’t go church, you folks go church. That’s very good. I was a heathen. I had ulcer before, bleeding ulcers. Those days, everybody get ulcer, they go operate, they die. They cut the stomach, they say cancer. They die. MY:1480 You know, Japanese people, they go Chinese store, buy, see. Chinese people, they no go Japanese store, buy. But Japanese people, they go to Chinese store, buy. So, they go in. “Mr. Lum, we like Home Run cracker. We like try because I heard that very good,” they tell him. “Nah, nah, nah, nah.” “Okay. We no buy cracker, then. We no like cracker. We like buy Home Run cracker.” They all go inside. MY:1482 They ask me, “Why you no go? You get the first preference.” 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.” SU:1567 Well, at that time, yes. But since our days over, they start, I think, changing the policy that as long as the surname is Japanese, you can play, which is, I think, good idea. Because only Japanese boys alone, you cannot because there is lot of half-breed, eh? So, they get a chance to play, which was good idea, I think. Very good idea. SU:1568 Very good. Very good. I don’t have to worry anything about it. When myself and “Peanuts” Kunihisa took the Red Sox baseball team over to Japan in 1951, we played against the non-pro and the University team. We clean sweep win. We had a strong team that time. And then, I supposed to stay–myself and “Peanuts” supposed to stay–only one month, but we stay over than one month. Almost couple months. He stayed in different hotel, I stayed in different hotel. 5.29.3.2 veri BAD There are two canonical examples of veri and BAD: AK:670 My ghost experience in Waipio is not very bad. It was down the beach, yeah, I saw ’em. When I go out fishing, I see another man poling up in front of me. Just when you get near, you lose ’em. That’s all. But in the Kona one, really, that I did see that. Kona, I seen ’em with my own eye, and I talk to the person. That darn thing wen disappear right in front me, like this. That terrible, no. That thing came out as a human being, like you and I. And I did see it with my own eyes. And I follow, right behind, right next to ’em. I can touch, you. But my hand never touch the guy. Just come just around the corner, it disappear right in front of me. “Where you?” Not there no more. Oh boy, my hair went up that way. And then it come dark, I run. I run. OC:10 I think I was looking for something the other day. Let’s see, where’s that thing. We have a letter here. The Hawaiian Trust is very, very nice to me, 1959 when business was very bad and here’s what my son wrote to the Hawaiian Trust to do a favor. 5.29.3.3 veri BIG There is a single canonical example of veri and BIG: 226 AK:608 Just a small one, we didn’t have to have a very big one. 5.29.3.4 veri SMALL There are two canonical examples of veri and SMALL: AK:640 Well, they used to have a store over there. And, I don’t know, that’s only good place for everybody hang around. They pau church, they come over there. Then afterwards, then we move up to the school. Because before that, they had the school, but very small playing ground. Then, when they had the FERA and WPA for a project, that’s when we opened up all that. Behind the school used to be all nothing but guava bushes around there. So when we work over there, we opened up the ground, then we use that as, you know. Every Sunday everybody come to church. That’s the only time you see all Waipio. They all come down and meet there. Everybody, old and all. WK:693 Their own land, but very small. A portion of an acre, I think. 5.29.4 Examples of rio 5.29.4.1 rio GOOD There are a substantial number of canonical examples of rio and GOOD: AK:627 And she rub that lemon on the salt, Hawaiian salt, rub, rub the outside, everything, all. Maybe you get ’em and then you put ’em in the jar, maybe in one gallon. Then you add salt. Then you dry ’em on the roof, in the sun. One week up, then you turn, then you leave ’em down, then leave ’em couple months. that thing going turn brown, real soaked, black. That real good. I don’t know if I still have some. AK:634 Kala. Solomon Kala. Joe Ke‘a’s father, I think. He used to be real good saddle maker. GF:321 “...I think Waipio, that’s the last place anybody want to lend money. Because lot of people raising taro but very few guys paying taxes.” “How you know?” “Oh, when I go pay my tax in Hilo, at the tax office, I know some Chinese people there. They working in the office. Some Japanese. They real good to me. They ask me, ’How many people raising taro down Waipio? Five, six guys?’ I say, ’No, about 30, 40 guys raising taro.’ ’Well, you give me the names. ’Why?’ ’Well, nobody paying taxes.’ I say, ’No, no, no. That’s not my job. I don’t want to cockaroach on them. That’s you folks job.’ They say, ’Gee, that’s why Waipio cannot get road. Because nobody pay taxes.’ ... ” 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.” NC:134 He get good carpenters too, see. Because Chinese real good carpenter you know. For build up house like that. In no time they put ’em up. You’d be surprised, when they build house, the scaffold. You see how they put the scaffold up? But I wouldn’t dare go on top though. But they go. I said, “Ho, when we build house and we make scaffold, we make sure he solid.” But theirs, only bamboo only. Just tie them up and they put up the house. NC:161 Then I started all over again planting. I had a real good crop. One section I get about, well, the first harvest’s supposed to be around 2,000 to 3,000 bags. I get 6,000 bags all together. Three thousand bags could be harvested right along until the other 3,000 was ready. The first crop of 3,000 bags I haven’t taken off even a single bag. It goes right back to the dirt. No market. NK:921 Yeah, yeah. Just like da kine green kind taro. I think, poi taro not green, but they purple. When you make poi, they say pala‘ iꞌi. Pala‘iꞌi, some is real good, but some is not. They are lau-loa. Because the poi come all swell up. 227 5.29.4.2 rio BIG There are a substantial number of canonical examples of rio and BIG: AK:655 I plant in October. That’s the only month I don’t want to plant taro. But I cannot help, I got to plant if I get the hull, I have to plant. But the taro is big, real big. But no more babies. But somebody, they plant in October, they get lot of babies. Well, you know me, oh, how many years I try. Same thing. GF:338 Apii. The white taro. Green stalk. Eleven, 12, 13 month, we harvest big taro. That taro big. When he cultivate his taro, when he run the water inside there, just like river running in there. He doesn’t believe in small amount of water. He wants plenty water. Fresh water, clean water. Clean the ditches, clean the sides, make the water circulate. Taro stalk, ho, real big. Tall. NC:162 No, this is after the tidal wave. I replant. I go all over again. The tidal wave one, I just forget. We were pulling taro then. Do you know where Andrew’s section is? All that section was planted and the taro was real big. He got so disgusted he joined the Army Ready for harvest, you know, and the taro was really big. You know, one taro get six to seven pounds. Some of the taro were still there but cannot be used; the salt water got them. So I start all over again, planted, and got about 6,000 bags. The first 3,000 bags I didn’t pull any, and the second 3,000 bags, I only harvested about, I think 1,200 bags, that’s all. WK:705 They used to have big park in the back there. Big. Real big park. Bigger than Kukuihaele Park. 5.29.4.3 rio SMALL There are two canonical examples of rio and SMALL: GF:346 If you make mother seed, you come June or July, the seeds tassel. When he tassel, get flower come up. The seed, the mother seed you plant flower, see. When it flowers, half of the taro going rot. The stalk going drop off, and the seed going come real small. So I don’t make mother seed. I make all baby seed. So when he come tassel time, the thing too young to tassel. He won’t tassel. NC:137 And when they prepare the thing, they get one lamp with oil and light up. And they use one wire, must be wire or something. They roll that thing more like cooking. That thing come big and then they put ’em on the part near the small hole. They play with the thing. He come down and then put on again. More like cooking it, eh? After that, then they stuck ’em in by the hole. The hole is real small, just enough for the needle. They poke the hole, they press the opium in, they pull the needle out so that the opium still yet get smoke. They put that hole to the fire; they suck, they smoke that. 5.29.4.4 rio MANYMUCH There is a single canonical example of rio and MANYMUCH: AK:661 Yeah, from the ranch. Those days, the poi was cheap. It was big. About 24 pounds a bag, I think, those days. Poi real plenty. And then, my grandfather always buy the hard paiai. It’s a poi paste, you know. Something. We just smash the taro, just that, never mix the poi yet. We buy that. They were all wrapped in ti leaf.

5.29.5 Examples of rili