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the growth is different again, I can see on different patches. But now I like to see when I harvest it, what the outcome will be.
MY:1483 You know, any business salesman, when you get your customer, you got to take care.
And me, that’s one guy, I no like the guy feel bad. I got to take care until he’s satisfied. I said, “The only thing I can do, I take the order from my house. My home office, and I do for you. Is that all right?” He
said, “Well, no can help, eh?” I say, “You no have to pay me.”
NC:144 We used to ship ’em Honolulu. See. And when we like eat–I used to get the small, little
frog house, eh. And outside he get the screen up and get a pond, eh. They can go in the house and come out like that.
NK:933 I like. Because I like ride horse, that’s why, back and forth. OC:7 I told them they get eleven children and I like to help them out because I don’t have to pay
them cash anyway so the bank can give them that money to help their children. So that way there I thought what my father and mother say, “Always be honest with yourself.”
SU:1537 Well, right behind us, they used to have a duck. Toma-san used to feed. You know, whatever they get, they throw ’em inside the water. All the ducks used to come around. And then, when
we like to eat duck, we just grab ’em, clean ’em up, and do it, see. And then, duck, here and there, lay the egg, eh? We used to go out there, look for the egg inside the water, you know.
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:707 Because... maybe, something they do you don’t want, you get angry, eh? Actually what I
say is anger. When you angry, you like fight. Those young days, no? Any young blood, they like fight. Today, I no can fight, I go sleep.
YA:1038 Yeah. After that, I went downtown again, Honolulu again, with my brother, see? Then my
brother see all da kine ghost stuff on the papaya tree. The horse no like go, eh? You remember? The horse don’t want to go, you know.
YA:1057 No. That’s the only place we think about. My wife like move Kalihi, quiet place. Nobody
live around. You know, lonely place, see? 5.14.4.2 laik SOMETHING
There is a single canonical example of laik occuring with a lexical SOMETHING: ER:788 Yeah, some, the old guys good, but the chief cowboy good. He good to me. Every time he
like something, he call on me. Because me, when I young time, I like this kind. You know I like every time go inside. I like steal somebody job just like.
5.14.5 Examples of wan
5.14.5.1 wan Clause There are many canonical examples of wan occuring with clauses:
AK:602 Yeah, Wednesday we go to the poi shop. Nobody to work taro patch for pull taro, whatever it is. Sometime the boss tell, “You go this way.” But most time we go to the taro patch. Sometime,
something else the boss want you to go, you go do that.
BB:009 Everytime they stay send the money to the brother to buy property. Buy mountain like that. My father like plenty mountain with plenty trees. He can cut the kaki no ki, kuri no ki and all the
good kin’ lumber, eh. He make into shoji like that – nice kin’, eh. He buy the kin’ and plenty the kin’ rice patch. ’A’s why he wanted to go take a look how many land he get with the money. So when they wen
reach Japan, Japan guys say, “How come you folks came back?” “We came to see our property.” “What
110 property?” We send money to the brother for go buy the yama and the rice patch. He say, “ You no mo’
money. Your brother get PLENTY land. ...” 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.
GF:305 Yeah, he tells me what to do. He tells me what he wants me to do. He’s the boss. He tells
everybody what to do. Those days, the old man doesn’t work. He’s the boss. All the Chinese just like kings down there.
JB:65 But I don’t know how to explain what is alii mean. Alii is some kind of legend that the Hawaiian people, I don’t know how to explain it, but I can try, though. Because my family, we are from
the alii family. Alii means.... that’s why I wanted my wife to come back. Because she knows the Hawaiian most. She doesn’t speak like me but at least she knows something.
JL:18 So I went inside. My daughter tole me – Irene – “Boy, Penhallow came up.” “oh, we went
look the pipi. He know I know all this cattle, eh?” I tole Irene, “He want me come back on da ranch.” “After you pension already?” “Leggo da pension. I go back. Help him.”
KK:115 An afta Kekoa say, “O gee I wanta keek behine da widing hood again.” LI:142 an den Peke, he wantid make doo-doo.
MM:370 Yeah. They make it solid, too, because they no want that thing replace all the time, eh?
And then, even on the trucking, was the same way. Even when we went trucking, was the same way. They got to pile it on a sling and load ’em up. And then, later on, somebody wen start to think about that
push rake. The machine come and push the cane, pile ’em up, eh, in one long line. And then they had the crane. They had the grabber, yo.
MT:1196 Well, not right now at present. If things get bad, well, I might. Might. Where I might go, where I will go, I really do not know. Well, my age is creeping up, that’s the thing I’m worried about.
When you get at 50, nobody wants to hire a old person already, see. That’s the thing I’m kind of worried thinking about. As I say, I’m a tractor operator, truck operator, I’m a mechanic, I’m a welder, I do all
around, so I think I can get a job someplace, if I have to.... I hope.
MY:1483 Yeah. And then, I couldn’t get retired. ’Cause the boss don’t want to let me go. He tell
me, “No. You come one week, only two weeks, all right, you work for me. You come half day all right.” All conditions, he gave me.
NC:193 We plant everything. The big one, the small ones and all. Like now, we only plant the small ones. Because the big ones we market. We market some of the small ones because the markets
rather have the small ones than the big ones, because the Japanese say when they make certain things, they want the thing round. They said, the big ones, you have to cut ’em in pieces, they don’t look so
good. After all, food has to have looks too, eh? You believe in that?
OC:6 They want to know how many years. “Well,” he say “get over forty years” They combed their
hair and then, you know, they’re not interested. Nobody want to buy.
SU:1571 I was going to buy the piece of property toward to Downtown side, 14,000 square foot, two lots down there, with all holes and everything, kiawe and everything. So my mother told me, “For
what you want to buy that kind of junk place? Going to cost you money.” I tell, “No, that’s okay. We can cut down the kiawe tree and then put sign down there, Fill in. Throw rubbish.” She didn’t like it but
afterwards, she say, “Yeah, might as well buy.” But too late.
TA:58 I think so. Even this new one, I think the poi shop give the squeeze, going be same thing like
the other one. Nobody like see, after you take care your taro for year and a half, you don’t want to see ’em rot in the field. It’s not like plantation union go on strike. You get nothing to rot. Only you lose your
paycheck. Inside there get the instruction, “Don’t go off the track?” “Bring ’em back to the track again.” WK:699 Then, after work I couldn’t make it because financial problems, you know what I mean,
eh? No more father, eh? No father. I wanted to go school, really, I wanted to go school, but when you get hard time, what you going do? No can go school, eh? My mother couldn’t keep us. So I figure I got to
111 stay home and keep my mother and my kid brother. I had one more other brother, Joe, they call ’em,
Joseph. I had to stay home, work for them. YA:1038 Yeah. After that, I went downtown again, Honolulu again, with my brother, see? Then my
brother see all da kine ghost stuff on the papaya tree. The horse no like go, eh? You remember? The horse don’t want to go, you know.
YA:1056 Yeah. “You want to buy the two lots?” I said, “No, the place is too low down. How much
you want?” “Five hundred dollars for two lot.” I told him, “If you fill ’em up, road level, I buy.” So he fill ’em up road level. I buy 500. And I build one house next to the lot for 1,500, I think, the price.
They build one house for 1,500. I sold for 3,000. Chee, I think I was a millionaire man. Foolish, you know.
5.14.5.2 wan THIS There is a single possible example of wan occuring with THIS:
YA:1029 And then, they no worry nothing. If they like rice, they just go up by the plantation ware-
house, say, “I like one bag rice” or “I want cabbage, I want this, I want that, one can good,” and any kind. They bring ’em to your house. You don’t have to go and buy and carry home.
In this example, however, dis does not refer to a proposition, but an object. 5.14.5.3 wan SOMETHING
There are two possible examples of wan combining with lexical SOMETHING. In the first example, samting almost certainly refers to an object:
SU:1533 But chicken, yes. Chicken. How much one chicken cost? I don’t know how much, but egg– one dozen eggs, what? Maybe quarter or less. We used to even raise rabbit. Yeah. The chicken that we
used to raise for our food is that Rhode Island chicken, that red one–meat chicken. So, if the neighbor— you want to eat chicken, they say, “Okay. Take ’em from us. You eat.” And when we want something,
we get from them.
The second example is canonical, since samting clearly refers to a situation: GF:306 I don’t know. I want something better. With the high school education, I don’t know if I
can do paper work. So, might as well do all kinds of work. Try what you think is good, the way to make money, way to get ahead in life, that’s all.
5.14.6 Summary
