66 SOMEONE FEELS X
SOMEONE SAYS X
5.8 PEOPLE 5.8.1 Primitive syntax
PEOPLE also shares much of the syntax of YOU, I, and SOMEONE. Like them, it may serve as subject for the following predicates:
THINK, KNOW, WANT, FEEL, SAY, and DO
5.8.2 HCE Candidates
The only plausible candidate in HCE for PEOPLE is pipo.
5.8.3 Examples of pipo
5.8.3.1 pipo THINK We have a few canonical examples of pipo in combination with THINK:
FD:296 Not only money. And then you can live on taro too. Like poi, you can cook it for your own
home use. That’s what I figure. That’s why I tell my husband that. Nowdays, people don’t think of Waipio. Some, they have children, is over here just moving around, that not doing nothing. They don’t
urge the kids to go down Waipio. But if me, I still have in Kukuihaele, I would recommend them to go back Waipio.
MT:1194 As you was saying, the sugar standpoint, the manufacturer takes 49 percent to manufacture the sugar and we get 51 percent to cultivate our cane. When I talk about cultivation, is
preparation, seed planting, fertilizer, harvesting. What I mean is, harvesting, is loaders, cutters liliko machines, liliko tractors, labor. We have to get 51 percent out of that. So it’s not as rosy as people
think. Actually, at the present cost today, for you to make a few bucks, only make at least 100. If you can make 100 per ton sugar, roughly, per acre, you lucky.
5.8.3.2 pipo KNOW We have a single canonical example of pipo in combination with KNOW:
MY:1463 They had, but people don’t know. Because like us, we know because we go there, look.
The other kind people, the gaijin like that, they don’t go look. They don’t know what’s going in the camp. Like us, anything is something different, we go there and look. Fighting chicken.
5.8.3.3 pipo WANT We have a single canonical example of pipo in combination with WANT:
BB:008 My mother, my mother tell — go buy for him the machine. He bought ’em the machine. Ho every time I stay over there I can hear the machine humming, boy. My mother used to with that, he
make the raincoat. And my father, wha-tyou-call, he told my mother to put button over here, button, eh... button and button and put one belt and make one big pocket over here with a flat covering, eh, rain
67 ‘a’s why. And put one more pocket o’ here, inside for put the cigarette. The other guys they use linseed
oil so – linseed oil when you put sticky, he stuck together. So people no like. So my father, you know, he know about chemical, so he made the kin’ no stuck and he sell. Boy, you know, Hilo guys, Kona guys
all come and buy. Every time they come they buy about one dozen they go home.
5.8.3.4 pipo SAY We find good evidence for the combination of PEOPLE and SAY:
ER:859 Then bumbai I make one more net, I make one more net. I go throw fish, I catch, catch fish. Yeah, you know, catch, catch fish with my net. Them guys tell me, “Eh, your net good luck.” “No,
you guys tell me my net manini. You guys, I no believe this kind. I no believe what you guys tell me. I no believe.” Then they tell me, “No believe anything you make. You no believe what people tell you. You
believe your own self what you think your net get.”
NC:126 All this way planting. Because you get six, and then you get to make the space the cord come right straight down. Then this one plant one, two, three, four, five, six. You hit in the middle here.
And this fella, he hit in the middle, then he come this side. Of course, the fast fella do more than half, the slow one. Not every fella same you know. And then it’s back breaking if you don’t know. But if you
know how it’s easy. That’s why people say, “How come you don’t get backache?” You have to know how. Like us, we pull taro, we don’t get backache. George Farm say, “Ho, I don’t see how you can stand,
I get backache.” I say, “You standing wrong.” He say, “Why?” I say, “You stand square to the taro. You put one leg in front, one leg behind, you get more leverage,” I told him. I don’t know if he do it now or
not.
SU:1527 Raining time, it’s. ... You know what people say? Even though you forget your lunch,
don’t forget your raincoat and kappa. That much was rain, you know. And then, my mother make me a kappa, and then pants with leggings style with all the abura, everything on so don’t leak, and with the
hat and everything. There’s no such thing, umbrella, because umbrella doesn’t last too long. YA:1021 No. Was, was, was. Gotta be. Only small little man, just like black, and then no more
clothes on. All, you know, small. Just like a small baby, eh? So, after that, lately, I went all the way to the other side, Kahaluu. Then, people tell me, “You know what is that? That’s the menehunes.” Then I
believe was menehunes. Bumbai, I ask ’em, “What is menehune mean,” you know. They tell me, “Menehune, that means a small Indian, baby Indian.” That’s all I know, see?
5.8.3.5 pipo DO We have a several canonical examples of pipo in combination with DO:
ER:752 Well, I learn from the way I work. I learn from people, what they do, I watch what they do, then I learn from them when I work.
FD:291 He said for keep him moving, and then he don’t have to suffer. He knows that when he doesn’t work one day in the taro patch, the next day he can feel his arms just like heavy. Every day, just
like every day you got to exercise. That’s why, you look what people are doing, going running, jogging. What for? What for no sense; you go jogging, you eat plenty, no sense.
MT:1187 Leave your land idle for one year. Now, what I mean idle is dried for one year and till
your soil. People done it, they still have the problem. Like, for me, I’m a full time farmer. I cannot afford leave my land idle. I have to get production every month. That’s my income. Like lot of these
guys, they only part-time, so no problem. You can leave the land idle. But like, for me, I can’t. But some of them did it and they still have the problem.. The problem still comes back.
NC:173 Yeah, asking and watching how people do. I used to go watch how they plant taro, how
they.... MT:1166 Well, at the certain point. I’m on the Agriculture Board on the County Committee, and
when we had our last flood, way back two or three years ago, the County came in and help us fix our
68 water heads and stuff with County money. Really, I got 3,000. So everything was all really damaged up.
People couldn’t do with labor, they had to get machinery. I was on Agriculture Board, so I got 3,000 for Agriculture Committee to go in and do it. Till then, well, everything holds pretty good.
5.8.4 Summary
