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There is a single canonical example of lat as the psychological complement of KNOW:
JL:12 Oh, you’ve gotta know helluva lot. You gotta know all da country. All the land you gotta
know where’s the gate and all fence up, you know. 5.23.3.6 lata X
There are also several canonical examples of partitive lata: AK:670 I don’t know. Hawaiians, they call akualele. Well, they say, that stuff, when they come
already, I don’t know. I asked lot of the olden people, “How come get that thing like that?” They say, “Well, Hawaiians they are famous for keeping all those things.” Maybe, you die, or something like that;
they keep, maybe your fingernail, or some part of your hair, or something like that. They keep that, they worship that. And then, maybe they get ill feelings, certain party, or something. Then they start
commanding for go them. And that thing fly. You see ’em, one ball-like coming. When you yell, that thing all fall down. Before plenty, but now, I think, not. More of the old people all gone. When they used
to have lot of the old people, they all like that. Most of those things, more like kahuna. That what they call that, kahuna. I don’t know what power they have, but I see some, I see.
MM:339 But although, if you really like to raise pig, you could. You know why? Lot of this camp people, they used to go by the river, by the ditch. You know.... Probably you don’t know.
MM:347 Yeah. And then, when we fight means you put down your top, and then the other fella going to try hit your top, see. And then, it change around. The other fella put his top and you hit ’em so
many times, eh? And then, the top, we used mostly just to spin. Spin and then play. But the marble, we used to play in the fish, we used to make one, two, three, and one on each side–that’s four, five, and one
more in the back there, six. Who go inside hole first and come back is the winner. And then, we used to make one big ring, and then we used to put so many marbles in the center. And we used to shoot ’em
out, too. Because lot of time, if you get pretty good aim, you going shoot, but the marble only going spread out, see. And the ring is kind of big, so the marbles, very few maybe might fly out. You lucky if
fly out. But lot of them go to the edge, and then you get chance for hit ’em out.
MT:1192 Well, if I was going on that route, I would go direct and see Ernest myself. I wouldn’t go
through the agency over here–John Loo–see. I would go direct and see what Ernest had to say. But lot of these people go through the agent right here. And he’s a farmer, plus he’s getting a cut from Honolulu
Poi too, to supply the taro to him. So, he cannot go and see Ernest, “Oh, how about giving us, you know, some more, couple of cents more.” He can’t because he’s getting his cut already from him. So he’s kind of
tight.
5.23.4 Examples of maeni
5.23.4.1 maeni PERSONS There are several canonical examples of meni and PERSON:
ER:849 Uncle Bill, that time me, too, I go helper, go cut meat and go divide the meat. Put some meat, some bone. I make all even, eh. But sometimes, somebody grumble. “How come only bone?” “No
can help. That’s how you figure out, eh.” You gotta put da kine steak, one piece. Not easy job because you gotta cut, cut, cut, cut plenty because you gotta count all the people, eh, how many people and
make one pile, one pile. The rib, you cut. And I wen go work that kind job, not easy job. People grumble like hell. They chew you out, yeah.
FD:268 I look everybody when we had the funeral. That day was so crowded. Too many people.
Nothing but Japanese, we had. Of our own Hawaiians, not so much, my family. But Japanese family, we
168 had so much. You look outside the road. Just like holiday, just like parade. Full, even downstairs in the
house. We had everything taken out. GF:321 I said, “Nah, I don’t think anybody lend me money. 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.’ ... ”
NC:119 Well the big one, they call Hui Nui. That’s a big company, so many people in there. I
really don’t know who the people are. We so young, those days, eh. You know Chinese they call ’em either Ah Sook or Ah Pak.
YA:1037 No, no. That’s only ten cents. You go over there eat, and you can sleep over there. Not too
many people those days, you know. No more Hawaiians. Hawaiian all stay down the country. Oh, lot of good fun, those days, you know. We eat free.
YA:1052 They appointed so-and-so people. So many people go up to operate certain guns, you
know. So, you have to go, see. Maybe I’m not the one that operating, but some other people ahead of me operate. I got to be around with them. If a bomb hit him, he die, I operate ’em. too. I take over, see?
Another guy take over like that, you know. There are also a substantial number of near-canonical examples:
ER:753 When I start working over here, I work over here maybe about three year, I think, then we
pick up my two brothers from Lahaina, ’cause my uncle get too many kids, eh, hard. So me and my older brother, bring the two guys here, and then we send ’em school. Then we take care them, go school
over here until they graduate from over here. ER:775 They go pick up one luna, the guy called Kwon. William’s father, Kwon. He go over there,
then the big boss tell him, “You get so many boys go with you. You take ’em mountain, you go plant tree.” So him the luna just like.
MM:319 No, no. His job was outside, taking care the kalai and hanawai people. They have a stable where they get what they call stable men. They get about three, four guys, all depending how big the
stable is, you know. The bigger the stable, well, they got to get more hands, see. But I don’t know. I was small kid, so I don’t know how many men was working at the stable.
MM:364 Then when you get your men all set, then you got to go count how many cars, yo. All right, now, if get fifty cars and if all of them get partners, you know that’s hundred men already. Then,
after you count the men, the field boss come around, eh? “How many men you get?” “Oh, I get hundred men.” Then, you go back again.
NC:190 Because lots of things, I don’t believe in Hawaiian, you know. Like, for instance, fishing. If you go and you turn around and come back to the house again. They said hard luck, this and that, and
all of that stuff. One time, I get so many boys working with me, so I tell, “Eh, we knock off little bit early. We go fishing.” They said, “Okay.”
SU:1547 That’s why, need more men. Those days, no. Those days, slack time, you only get two, three girls. Busy time–in the morning, busy see, you get big bunch of girls, and lunchtime. And after the
lunch, about two o’clock to four o’clock, not too many guys eating, so we can get less girls work and less cooks. Get one cook, one dishwasher, ’nough, see. Me, I stand by, see, I learn. That’s why, my time is no
limit.
I assume here too, that kid, boi, men, gaiz are decomposible in terms of SOMEONE. 5.23.4.2 maeni THINGS
There are several canonical examples of meni and THING:
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FD:253 Oh, so much. Yeah, I had so many things I used to do. And then I used to bake, too. We
used to bake cookies, pies and cakes. But we have, the wooden stove, they have oven, eh. The wooden stove. You see in the catalog; before you see, eh?
FD:255 Well, before everybody like the hand pound. They rather have the hand pound. But today,
well, we cannot do it, Get so many things you got to work hard to get your money. You know, today is so high cost living. You cannot be pounding poi all the time.
FD:288 I usually have about 300 for that patch; 300, sometime 340 over. Now, not even 200. You see how much loss I get. When we went to file our taxes, we didn’t show Mr. Sakata on our loss, the
farm, the whole thing. He say, “Oh, what you think?” I said, “Well, there’s so much, these days there’s so many things is happening to the taro farmers.”
JB:64 As I said, we didn’t have a caterpiller to go in the taro farm. We had a horse. We have the harrow, and then we had the harness they put on the neck. And then we had the bridle, we have the
rope. We let the horse go in the front of us and we at the back. All we got to do is hold the rope and let the horse go through the taro patch. And let him do the work. We harrow the taro farm, back and forth,
maybe about 10 times. You know, to get the land all flattened up. It’s not like now, because they using most of the time, they have that Iseki machine and whatever machine they use. Many other things,
because some of the things that I kind of forget. Because kind of pretty long. I didn’t go down.
NC:150 She doesn’t. She try to go out one time. Try to cut rice. Just for the fun of it. But she cannot. Cutting rice is hard. Dai Ho is good cutting rice. One time Ah Kong was telling, “Oh, if I can hold
so many thing like you folks. You folks cannot catch me.” So one time Dai Ho said, “Now you can hold eight.” He said, “Go ahead. We race.” Ah Kong look at him, he say, “Just because you faster than me
that’s why he tell me.” Dai Ho is fast cutting rice.
5.23.4.3 maeni TIMES There are several canonical examples of meni and TIME:
AK:665 Yeah, inside the stone wall. Something like stone wall. Like now, she or he wen die, they stay put the money on top the eye. One dollar. We go there, we go look, eh. Broke down the stone wall,
or whatever thing. We did that how many time. GF:308 But I wish, many times, that I had parents. But I never had. Hard luck. But the Lord been
good to me. That’s one thing. Then I was kidding the old man and the old man take it for real, you know. He think I really wanted to marry Matilda, you know.
MM:347 Yeah. And then, when we fight means you put down your top, and then the other fella going to try hit your top, see. And then, it change around. The other fella put his top and you hit ’em so
many times, eh? And then, the top, we used mostly just to spin. Spin and then play. But the marble, we used to play in the fish, we used to make one, two, three, and one on each side–that’s four, five, and one
more in the back there, six. Who go inside hole first and come back is the winner.
NC:152 Oh yeah. It all depends on the climate too, yeah. After you use ’em so many times, the
thing going rot, eh. Maybe good for two crops though.
NC:182 Sometimes, but then sometimes the water bust up so many times. The land dry for three,
four days, five, six days, like that, but sometimes, it all depends on the growth of the taro, how old and sometimes it’s good to get a little bit dry. The soil pack and the taro more solid. But then if it’s young
taro and it dries like that for so long, the grass going to come up and give you lot of work. You know, there are disadvantages and advantages in the water.
OC:6 They say “On Char, that attorney say we have to get three bidders before that come to an order.” Anybody come that third bid before we can, so if anybody want to but, why, from third bid on
you can bid as many times as you want to. So he say, “Who’s interested in that thing? How much would you offer?”. And this Chinese fellow said, “I bid the first bid.” Well, you know, they only bid 1000 and
the other one said, “Oh, I bid 2000” just to make a bid. He knows that even one of the two houses is worth more than four or five thousand dollars. So I put 5000.
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5.23.5 Examples of mach
