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5.23.6 Examples of pleni
5.23.6.1 pleni PERSONS There are a number of canonical examples of pleni in combination with PERSON:
ER:762 So you go there, you help them take off from the net, you cleaning the net, so that they no lose time, eh. So we go there, we take off all. So us we can swim, we go inside the water and take ’em
off. No wait till you reach up. Get plenty people up, they wait, eh, then they wen take off. So the one we take off, they no care. But the one all stay inside the bag like that, they bring ’em to the tub and the
fish market trucks, they over there already.
ER:784 Munro time. If you get friends, they like go ride horse, you can lend ’em your horse. But you no ’nough horse, then you can go borrow from your friends. They ride go Keomuku. Come up.
Before down there plenty people, eh. So they go, they go sometime Saturday evening, pau hana, they go. Then they sleep down there by the beach. Then Sunday, they come home.
ER:811 Yeah, same time I take da kine meat for my girlfriend house. Every time he tell me, “We go down my house,” my friend–the brother, eh. Every time, “We go down over here.” “Ah, more better we
go tomorrow morning then.” So we go shoot goat, we take them, get something for eat eh. “Ah,” he tell me, “okay we go in the morning.” Some guys, they go in the night. Because down there kind of big, the
people used to stay. Kind of plenty people, eh. And down there get good fun, too. And sometime he tell me, “Ey, we go down tonight.” “Nah, I no like go down nighttime. I like go down daytime, so I can go
get some meat.” Give some fish for them guys. Only me I go, and I go eat free kaukau, no good, eh.
GF:307 Yeah. You know Chinese, they match-make, eh? So, he didn’t tell me that. He brag, he tell
plenty people that. So, of course, Waipio had school, before they had school dances sometime, socials. And I like to dance, ballroom dancing. I like that; so, we used to go. You putting that down too?
MY:1479 Then, crack seed, you know, those days, plenty people eat crack seed. We buy crack
seed and it come in the five-gallon can, square kind can. The thing is sour. So I asked the boss, “Ibaraki- san, can I make the crack seed more ‘ono?” He said, “Up to you. You do what you like. You running the
store. You do.” So, I bought one big bowl of syrup, and I throw ’em inside the crack seed. I mazeru, eh? I pour ’em on. Oh, the thing go out hot cakes.
NC:122 I don’t know. Mostly Chinese food, canned stuff. Chinese they seldom eat meat. They eat mostly pork. So every so often they kill one pig. Like harvesting time, I think every week they kill one or
two pigs because plenty people working.
OC:6 When it come to the newspaper, to auction certain place where, you know, how big a area
and all that’s in there, why, plenty people wanted to buy it because it’s auction property.
TA:51 I been selling to him all the time, right through. When my father was agent, well, I used to
give him my taro too. I don’t bother. He hired plenty people to pull. YA:1058 Oh, we only catch squid. No more other kind. Because plenty people over there, you
know. Sand Island. Now, no can tell. I no can tell how Sand Island look like now. All fill up already. No more one island over there, see?
YA:1073 No, no. I no like that. No hunting, no fishing. Plenty people from Pearl Harbor, retired,
they ask me to go fishing. I tell ’em no. I no want go fishing. I says, fishing more danger than anything. I cannot swim good. Too much, too far away. If my boat turn over, I get drowned. More better I stay on
land. So, lot of people tell me go play golf. I no like play golf. Play golf is good, but you know, you got to work hard on the field playing golf.
There are numerous non-canonical examples of pleni in combination with PERSON: BB:004 You know [name deleted] was a carpenter to, you know... He tell my father, “You make
better job, you go over there, you take the job.” So my father took the shop. ’A’s why my father was doing all the kin’ coffin... You know plantation plenty guys die, eh. I hear Dr. [name deleted] was good
doctor, but he no sterilize his instrument, so plenty guys die, eh. My father used to make the coffins. Ho, plenty coffins, my father used to make.
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know. Gold watch, those guys, eh. Plenty guys don’t know, you know, what kin’. That’s why they say, “This one junk.” So my father give ’em — “You like change with me this one?” Say, “OK.” Change, but
my father get the gold. As soon as he get the gold watch he melt ’em, my father. My father was a goldsmith. You know the Japanee make the kanzashi and ring like that, eh. My father make all that kin’.
He make the nice kin’. The darn thing hang down and gold hang down. The other one he get ’em from the ocean.
BB:011 They pay my father with the liquor because they no mo’ money. That’s why my father he
don’ know where for put; so, he dig underneath the house and bury ’em. And plenty guys they come my house for buy the okolehau, because they know my father get plenty.
BB:012 Those days never get this table saw like that, you know. No more machine too. All you gotta get good hand, you know. The saw, the blade, you gotta pull back, you know. ’At’s the kin’ he get.
He sharp that too, you know. Ohh.... Plenty guys they get that kin’, eh, but they no mo’ the file, you know, for sharp that – different kin’ file. My father get that kin’. They don’t know how to sharp.
BB:017 But I don’t know plenty guys – plenty Filipinos and Japanese; you try name some names
over there. [name deleted] ka, you know [name deleted]? BB:018 ’A’s was a tiger shark – big bugga, you know. Can see the teeth, eh – nice teeth. He kick
’em with the shoes – he like bust ’em. His leg wen go inside. Ho the shark wen go like that; just miss ’em. Boy the guy he scared Was on the landing already and they start cutting the meat out; over there.
Plenty guys – they said you like too? I say, “Uh, I no like.”
EB:1141 Oh, before, Japanese, they own the farms, eh? So, they like pickers. Before, you stop the
man–because plenty Filipino, before–you stop them to come your place and harvest your coffee. But not today, see? No more the Filipino can handle the coffee. So, I went. “The hell with this job.”
EB:1142 Not hard. Because if coffee season, not hard. Because that’s what I say. Before plenty Filipinos and all these Japanese, all the farmers. They like men to pick the coffee.
ER:764 They look and then take your name bumbai if they get money, they give you some money. That’s what I do before I came over here. Every time I run away from school, more better go get fish, eh.
’Cause my uncle, they get plenty children, eh, for take care. So, I go help go get fish. My aunty see me, when I bring fish, then she no scold me. I bring back fish, eh. I give the bag, “Here,” I tell my aunty.
ER:772 But us guys, we young, yeah, scared eh, we no go in the pasture, we go on the road. I go
walk on the road bumbai come inside this camp. Plenty guys. Then I go ask some of the men I see outside. I go tell ’em if they know who Henry Gibson. They tell me, yeah. “Right up here, you go up
here.” Tell me, “You go up here, you see the two house way up here.” So, I walk on.
ER:804 Stab ’em in the heart. We hold ’em. Some guys hold ’em sideways. But plenty guys, if you
hold sideway, sometime when they poke ’em, they miss, eh, the heart. And then go inside the leg. And all bruise. Inside, when you cutting over here, bruise. So you turn ’em upside down, you hold ’em like
this, straight. Over here straight, you can catch the heart, eh. You can see, over here, the chest, eh? ER:834 So summertime, we go down there from about nine o’clock. We stay until the evening time
we play, ’cause summertime get plenty boys, eh. So we play da kine two out of three. You know two out of three, you lose, you go. Us, sometime we go inside there, we stay till we tired, no can play.
Nobody can beat us. ER:863 But if you no believe these things, nothing. That’s why he tell, you only believe one God,
one God and the Son. The Father and the Son. That’s all you believe. But somebody get any kind. Somebody get shark. Somebody get da kine fish, ‘o‘io. He tell me plenty guys get any kind.
ER:865 Down there? Oh, used to get plenty people down there. Get full church. They get full down
there because that time get plenty working guys, eh, down there. And they get their children, get family. Some, the children go Maui, go school. And they stay. They get plenty family down there.
ER:868 What this guy doing? So next night, we check by his house. We go over there, we like watch what he do. And him, he say, no, he no do that. Only he go walk way by, sit down. Thought
maybe he go make sign or what, eh. First time I go work da kine, the first week, well, me and him kind
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of scared. I tell him–see, I still no scared the boat guys, but if they going come, plenty guys going come, eh, we can run away, eh. In the boat, we can see they coming.
ER:881 Uncle Johnny. He wen drive truck. Uncle Biggy them wen go drive da kine small kind truck inside the pineapple field. I think Robert he was down the piggery running the boiler. So, he know how
to run boiler, they put him inside the powerhouse ’cause he know how to run all da kine steam, eh, the engine, da kine, about the steam, eh. So he went powerhouse. Yeah, plenty guys wen go, but not so bad.
But Uncle Sammy - no, when that time pau, he was in the army. When he came back from the army, then he went truck driver. He wen go apply for truck, eh.
FD:248 Yeah. They had plenty. As far as mens, oh, they had plenty working men. Because most is
the men’s job, eh?
MM:327 Yeah. And then, because plenty fellas wen go take a look, he go, and he go up, and then
circle ’round, land. You know, he did several times for the people look, eh?
MM:340 Yeah. Plenty fellas used to go that furo. MM:357... generator with the Cadillac. Yeah. And then, they used to bring shibai guys, too. Those
days, get plenty shibai guys, you know. And then, they used to stay Yamaka’s place. NC:119 Most of them from Waipio. Before, get plenty Chinese in Waipio. That’s the only time
they get work, when get harvesting and planting. Other than that they don’t get work.
NC:170 You mean when I reached there? Well, I don’t know. I get plenty friends, too, get plenty of local Honolulu boys there, so I feel at home, but I didn’t like the place I stayed because you cannot keep
a white shirt white because we were right next to train station, that Union Station, with trains everyday back and forth.
NC:184 Oh, yeah. George Nakagawa used to work for me. Solomon Kala, William Nakagawa, Sonny Ah Puck, his brother Herbert Ah Puck they used to all work for me. Get plenty others, but I forget.
Plenty Filipinos been working. Takeo and I really forget their names. Filipino names hard to remember. NK:956 Before, most, Chinese. Before the Japanese came Hawaii, they had plenty Chinese.
SU:1563 Yeah, I wanted to stay because Waikiki was a good place. Because I used to know all
thosepeople, hotel people. I used to get plenty customers from Moana Hotel, you know. All young boys. At Moana, Moana Seaside Hotel, Royal Hawaiian Hotel at that time. And Halekulani Hotel. And where
else? That’s about all hotel was.
WK:711 Put plenty guys to death too. There’s a next wahine too. Plenty. WK:714 Oh, all Hilo, Kona, any place I used to go. Nobody touch me for dancing. But I no date
girls, though. But I get plenty kids. You guess how many I get? Fourteen, no?
In the above sentences I assume that gaiz, customers, men, felas, chainiz, kid, childrn, and the names of ethnic groups are decomposable in terms of SOMEONE.
5.23.6.2 pleni THINGS There is a single canonical example of pleni and THING:
YA:1053 That’s how they do. The time they bomb Arizona, all civilians.... The sailor and marine
were watching the other stuff. Plenty things. Like guard all over, eh? That’s only machine shop workers operate that gun on the rooftop, see?
5.23.6.3 pleni PLACES There is a single canonical example of pleni in combination with PLACE:
AK:596 Waipio has lot of water and you can use whatever you want. And then, you can go
swimming, all that. Plenty places to go and nobody going stop you from using water. You can go any place use the water.
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There are several canonical examples of pleni in combination with TIME:
BB:020 No. You know what, plenty time I was a draft dodger. I used to drive taxi during the war
time. So, get school teachers you know. They commute from Honolulu to Wahiawa. Get about oh, five teachers. I talk to the teachers. I get one seven-seater. “I give you guys special rate. You folks goin’ ride
my cab?” Oh The other guys is all Filipinos, eh. – Taxi driver. They see me Japanee eh. “Yeh, yeh, yeh,”. You see if I’m not married; I’m not married. I’ve been driving this route long time. So I take them; that’s
why I got deferred. They said, “Your job is important.” Got deferment.
ER:817 Keomuku Church. I go plenty time inside that church. And sometime they make just like
Sunday school. You know sometime they start the church early, and then they go make money for the church. They make little bit for they can buy something for the church. Maybe book or fix the church.
ER:888 But, like the summertime, good, the sun way up, plenty time, eh. Sometime you can ride
three horse. But when he come this kind time, the sun quick, yeah, go down. So when I come this kind time, I come home, maybe little bit dark like this, I come inside the house I go eat. I eat pau by the time,
the horse stay rest, eh. And when I pau eat, I can go take ’em off already and go tie ’em and go bathe. The truck driver was more better. More better long ago I wen go truck driver.
GF:306 Well, if that is not your line, you don’t want to stay there. Just for fool around, to kill time. Those were Depression days. So many years, we had depression, hard time days. Looking around for job,
spending the time. You figure, “Well, I’m still young yet. Plenty time.” NC:193 We start harvesting around November. When get plenty time. Sometimes, end of October,
we start harvesting. Because you can sell more during the holidays. Christmas and New Year. After that, slow, the market. And yet, we don’t get enough to ship to Honolulu.
TA:43 Was good land, though. But I go sublease. When I was working in Hilo, was right after tidal
wave. And we were working on the breakwater. And I get plenty time because I working in Hilo. So I come down. Every weekend I come down. That’s when I bought one old military jeep. Because the Army
was stationed down here too. Had some military guys, they was watching the beach. So the Army wen bulldozer and try level up the road. Before that, you know the trail going up, is just like one step ladder.
That’s where the mules step every time, the same holes. And then the road was real narrow, those days. Now is kind of wide, they fixed it. That’s when they come down with their jeeps too. Since the War,
when the car was going up and down.
YA:1054 First, when I discharged from the Army, I wen go apply plenty time, but I no can get in,
see. And then, that’s the different man controlling that time, that’s why. And bumbai, I go again. I keep on go down there, find out.
5.23.6.5 KNOW pleni There are two canonical examples of pleni in combination with KNOW:
AK:629 And when you need that medicine, you going find high and low, you no can find. I don’t
know why, but they always be like that. Hawaiian herbs are very delicate, I don’t say I know plenty, but I know some, but too bad, I didn’t have the book. If I had the book, I would study lot more of those
things. Now they having, sometimes, University of Hawaii, or someboy come out with ’em. You know one, Kanakaole, or somebody else.
ER:757 You no understand but you listen, bumbai sometimes you ask. You ask them, they tell you
what. Then, when I marry my wife, I asked her any kind Hawaiian word, she know plenty, then she tell me most about the Hawaiian word. So now, yeah, I can understand Hawaiian, but I no can talk too
much. If the people talk, I know what they talking about. But for me answer them, sometime too hard for me.
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There are a few near-canonical examples of partitive pleni: FD:271 Well, cuts, you know the honohono grass? You know that patch grass, in the taro patch?
You know, that soft one, they have the green honohono crawls in the taro patch? We have that now, those basket get plenty of those colorful ones. But this the green one in Waipio. Yeah, my mom used to
pound that, and then she just apply ’em on the sore, or the cut.
GF:351 Yeah. Some of the patches, most, plenty of the patches. Below the house, I had five acres.
Oh, plenty though. Five acres below the house. Then I get four acres, three acres. Plenty. About 12 acres I rested.
NC:140 Sure, they had those You know, those days, women, they used to go around. Plenty
Hawaiian girls, plenty of them just for pleasure Not married, though. Just for pleasure. And sometimes the Japanese ladies go down.
NC:153 Oh yeah. In fact, plenty of the Chinese married Hawaiian girls. Plenty of them. 5.23.7 Examples of aw
5.23.7.1 aw KINDS The form aw kain suggests that it should mean ALL KINDS. The actual meaning is, however, MANY
KINDS. There are numerous canonical examples in our corpus: AK:613 Yeah, yeah, we have the sports, we race around. Down the beach or in the school pork. We
do that when we have the Fourth of July celebration or something like that. We had all kind sports.
AK:656 To me, it’s the poison that they are using. I’m for sure it’s poison. You see, like before we use, they were using Prenite. Prenite never did do lot of damage to this taro. Or, on to the patches they
used. No more disease too. You never hear taro get sick. But today, they get all kind problems. After they bar out the Prenite, so you cannot use Prenite anymore. So they come out with diesel oil. Then they
come out, now, they have Paraquat and they have all kind poisons. Those poisons are good in one way, some not. Maybe someplace for something. I think Waipio, for kill grass. But I think for the taro patch no
good.
FD:251 Me and my daddy. My mom. We had, below our house, where Roy is raising taro now, had
a big home over there. We had two patches over there. We didn’t raise taro so we raised head cabbage, all kinds of vegetables. We didn’t starve. That’s why, to tell you the truth, if you ask Gladys’ mom, she
would know. Yeah. 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.
JB:61 Well, when we were down in Waipio Valley, we were living all kind of places. And, as I say,
I don’t remember the places all where we used to live. The first house we had, where Bill Hippie lives. That was the first house that we stayed. All of my family. Then we begin to move down where Olepau
lives. Right across of Olepau. We stayed there. We stayed there pretty long. And from there, I went to Waipio Valley School. My teacher was Samuel Kaaekuahiwi. He was the roughest teacher that I ever
come across for the many years. But he was all right.
MM:349 Yeah. And then, we go down the beach, and then Waterhouse and lot of volunteers, they
stay over there. You know, the grown-up people. And they make all kind of games, races, tug-of-war, and all da kine.
NC:148 All kind vegetables, meat. Not meat, but pork, eh. Or chicken.
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