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MT:1169 Well, I hate to say this, but people actually, in Kukuihaele, doesn’t like me, and I was the
president. To be honest about it. That’s the only reason why.
MY:1466 Oh, just like an open house. Everybody is her friend. She’s so liked by people, my
mother. MY:1479 I did so much for the Waikiki people. I do a lot of thing for them. That’s why, he tell,
“See, this man is good boy. You no talk bad about him.” The guy, he look sick. That’s why, even today, all the Japanese old ladies, they like me. They know me because always I go to their funerals and
everything, I go. SU:1524 Yeah. Feed the pig, and then feed the chickens. And then, go to school. And then after we
come back from school, me, I like sports, see. Everybody come home, so I run and come home. I run and come home to finish all the detail that I have to do. You got to feed the pig again, see, and chickens.
Then, after I get time, I go in the pasture with all the boys, go play baseball. I do the same thing over and over, day after day, day after day, to help him out.
YA:1041 Well, nothing. Only just they draft me in the Army, that’s all. And then, I talk to — too
much talking with the captain. The captain like me, see. He promoted me to noncommissioned officer, corporal.
5.14.4 Examples of laik
5.14.4.1 laik Clause There are many canonical examples of laik occuring with a clause:
AK:666 And then, when you get inside, then you can stand up. You walk quite a ways inside. When
I went in there, I had see a canoe was in there. I saw a canoe. I never like go more in. Kind of get scared. I never did touch nothing. I just look and I come out.
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. EB:1133 Well, I am unhappy because I like go school, but I no can go. I help because about our
living. That’s why I bin quit. ER:765 Yeah, most buy. My uncle them buy. Only the fish, make free fish, I go. And sometime, the
‘opelu kind boat eh, sometime I hang around there. They tell me, “You like go ride boat?” Okay, I go. Go inside the canoe, go catch ‘opelu.
FD:266 Well, I get funny feelings. Cleaning house. I tell my mom, “Eh, funny, you know.” My back
start aching, eh? And every time I like go use the bathroom but I don’t, eh? And then I tell my mom, “How come?” And then I still clean the house.
GF:354 If they were to live here, I would leave them the whole thing. But only take little time, you know. I don’t want to give anybody “Oh, you come, and I give you this.” Not like giving one apple.
Because I got to go through some to get those lands. Hard time days. When you go to the bank, you like borrow money, they don’t want to lend you. You go to certain place, any place, nobody lend you money.
You know what I mean? So, just like that. So I figure, if the husband can stay here five years, and learn about taro, and really interested, I make deed. I give ’em all.
JL:12 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.”
KE:139 An-an dead man on da riverbank didn’t like to go to bed. MM:375 Check if everything is going all right, because as much as possible, they no like shut
down, eh? So, as long they can go, well, keep going. And then today overseers, they lucky, too. Every extra hour they put, they get ’em either in pay or they get ’em in extra holiday, see. But my days, no.
MT:1186 I had my own method. I wanted to try to see— I’m working on different type of fertilizer, the reason is this; to see what fertilizer will become effective if the disease hits it. I’m putting zinc,
copper, potash and put all different types. Types on different patches to see what the rot would be. And
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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
