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YA:1033 Yeah. You know, we never buy, you know. Always cut, see. And if we like papaya, da
kine, we don’t have to plant. You go up the mountainside, get plenty growing wild. You look the papaya tree growing all over, eh? Nobody eat. So we look which papaya come good, eh, we climb up the papaya
and pick the papaya. YA:1065 Before, no, you go on the roadside, nobody holding up you. But when we go on the road,
we no care. We no go bare hand, see. We always carry a piece of wood or maybe a piece of pipe on our hand. When they try to attack us, we hit ’em with a pipe, you know. You see? You know what I mean?
So, if you no more nothing to protect you, he going lick you, see? But me, so far, I went anyplace. Go down Kakaako, go to–what do you call that church?–Kawaiahao Church, eh? The graveyard, I cross the
graveyard. I go Kakaako. I see da kine young Kakaako boys. When they pass by you, you no say nothing, you just keep walking. He say, “Hello, my friend.” He no come tackle you, you know. I don’t know how,
you know. I never get any da kine gangster on the roadside and hold me up, you know. Because I always carry something, protection. If they come and gang me up, I get something to fight, see. Or
either I carry one belt, you know da kine strap with a buckle on the end, eh?
5.24.6 Examples of evribadi
5.24.6.1 evribadi Another realization of the combination of ALL and PERSON is the HCE form evribadi. There are
numerous canonical examples in our corpus:
AK:603 Something like Chinese food. Most time Chinese food. They have all kind food. Everybody
eat the same food. Only Sunday, sometime, we get little bit more different food than the old Chinese. But not bad.
AK:615 I don’t know. But everybody get along those days, down there. They all get along. Those
days, when the Filipinos, or whatever, Japanese, or like that, Chinese; those days, we never had any trouble with them. Even young girls, all that, no more troubles like that. Today might be different.
BB:007 You know, your father is so good, eh. — plenty mango tree, you know, over there. He go
pick the mango, eh and he go give everybody. ’A’s why I was thinking, chee this man, you know, chee he no eat and give EVERYBODY like that. He was that kin’ man, you know.
EB:1135 Yeah, harvest the rice. I say, “Okay.” In the afternoon, about 3 o’clock. So, I went with him. I harvest little bit. Then, I heard kids playing around there, someplace. So, I run away from him.
Oh, that’s the time he beat me up again. And that evening time, again. So, ready to go home, everybody go home, oh, he so damn wild. He take the–I don’t know what he bin take–he beat me again. That’s
when my auntie bin worry like that. That’s all.
ER:821 Get along, yeah. Oh, the house to house people, all you can go inside the house. Just like your own house. You know, eat together. Sometime, guys, they bring kaukau, they go over there,
everybody go eat together. everybody eat together on top the veranda or outside on the grass. They drink. Pau, when they get ’nough, everybody go home. Come dark, everybody go home. The people
inside here, when I come young time, just like they all one family. Everybody together, just like one family.
ER:852 Yeah, everybody go one place. Had one big toilet over here. Where my garage was, and
where the wall stay like this, this side was the shower, where I wen put wall, over there was the shower room. And this side, everybody go wash clothes. They get plenty tub, eh, for go wash clothes.
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. Even me. I couldn’t help.
FD:259 Well, most Democrats. Most Democrats but we have Republicans too. but the two doesn’t
work together So, but if one side win and the one side lose; well, everybody be friends. That’s why, don’t be enemies. But some of them bet money, you know.
192 GF:300 Together. We used to raise pineapples for Honolulu Fruit Company, long time ago. Was
way back in the 1920’s and the early part of the 1930’s when Depression break got us. Everybody don’t know what to do. We went broke.
GF:329 And Waipio people, when I first came here, the people not greedy. They just catch so much, and then, the rest they let go. They don’t waste the food. Even down the ocean, when they go
catch fish down the ocean on a boat. When the boats come in with the fish, everybody help the boat, bring the boat up. everybody get share. And they used to get hukilau, too, down there, Waipio. Same
thing. Guys go out, swim out, bring-the net out, and everybody draw the net in. Everybody get share.
KK:112 An den Kekoa say, “Come on, everybody go in oh, we just got da babies inside heya.”
MM:337 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, why they get beriberi, because they eat only starch, eh? Yeah,
in those days. That’s why, you know, everybody been going through really hardship, you know. MM:375 Yeah, yeah. Burning cane never change much. You got to do the same way. Everybody
got to do the same way. Backfire. That’s what they say. Even sometime you go in the mountain, up the mountain it’s burning, eh? To prevent that, try and make a backfire. Firebreak. Somebody got to go
ahead and then make a firebreak and start to burn backfire, yo. You know? And then, by the time the other fire come already, this fire stay pretty far in already, see. Then you be safe. But if you just let ’em
go, he going continue.
MT:1175 Yeah, I wasn’t scaling. I was just, more or less, the weight was more or less and that’s it.
And everybody does it today. Majority of them, they don’t scale. Why, I don’t know. You can get the bathroom scale which goes over 100-something pounds. You should know what you doing. You not
fooling nobody, nobody’s fooling you.
MY:1468 Oh. Yeah. Everybody knows him. boy. I tell you. MY:1484 Oh, yeah. Well, the change is too much, no? Not like the old Waikiki where you can go
down the beach and enjoy. Get parking space. Today, you cannot find no parking space. Even if parking meter have, you cannot go down there, find parking meter because everybody goes down the beach.
Even if they allow you to, parking meters, you cannot find parking meters. NC:154 No, no. That temple, my father was the one started that. It used to be one way the outside.
So that one all broke down and everything. So nobody think that, my father said, “Ah, let me start.” So he get the people together to make one book for donations, eh. Everybody dig up so much, put down. I
think all our brothers get our name in there too because each of us give so much, eh.
NC:162 Everybody was planting it. Those days market was always flooded. That hit me more hard
than the tidal wave. The tidal wave hit me, but I still had money in the bank, and I drew out the money and went right ahead. After that, I went 5,000 so much in the hole. To get out of that 5,000 took me a
long time. I didn’t dare plant, eh. I only planted a few hundred bags.
NK:938 Well, everybody, they don’t know, eh? The other guys? NK:945 The Hawaiians used to have that way. Mountain to sea. That’s why, like the Hawaiians
used to stay on Ke‘ei side. That’s why, we get place from mountain to sea. Of course, we no own the whole place, but we get mountain place, we go mahi‘ai kalo. We get the middle place, we get ‘aina kope,
coffee land. And then, we get down the beach for take a rest, rest or go fishing, and come home, and stay there. That’s what we did have before. But not everybody. People who get place down, they stay down.
Some people no more place down, they stay ma uka. But they go down, they stay up.
OC:10 Yes, that business was a partnership and then come in later on, not making money so
everybody didn’t want to own anything. OC:7 He said, “Well, anybody else want to bid over that?” Oh everybody want to kill On Char
because he want to bid too much.
RN:911 You know everybody. SU:1531 Everybody make shibai. You know, amateur kind, eh?
SU:1542 Zippy’s? Right there used to have Tanaka Appliance. Mr. Tanaka and I used to be good friends, see. So he tell me, “Ey, Sam, I think you might as well put ‘Smile Cafe,’ though.” I says, “Okay.”
That’s how we started, see. Put “Smile Cafe.” And then, when I put Smile Cafe, everybody tell, “Ey, you got to smile every time.”
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TA:44 Now, everybody use herbicide. TA:49 Sometime the people down here, you really need the water.... well, you see them up there.
That’s why, if you on the tail end of the ditch, when you need water you no more water. Little bit water come. When you no need, everybody throwing the water in your ditch. Enough water. That’s why, if
you get long line of ditch and all the farmers over there, if you the first guy you can do what you want. WK:703 Huh? Me. Why? Why, I no can play music? No, we play music, all day. All us. The whole
gang. The gang that come my house and enjoy with us. Everybody grab the ukulele, go ahead and keep going.
WK:704 They have kids, children games. Whatever games they get for kids. And they have all kind. You ride the calf, and you go get the pig. You know they grease all the pig up. All that kind used to have.
And then after that they have all laulau. Everybody go eat after all the games up. Waipio used to have good celebration before. Honest, you ask all the old timers.
YA:1027 Bumbai, when 1915, ’14 or ’15, I moved downtown. There, get only one school in Honolulu. Kukui Street, go to the end, and the end of Kukui Street pau, eh? On the other side is the
mountain. And on the back of the mountain is Central Intermediate School. Only one school over there. Everybody go to that school. But that’s the only school could go. And I go look, oh, there’s one school
over here. But we no can go school already, see? We too big already.
YA:1063 They used to have down the country. On the mountainside get plenty rabbit, eh? Now, no
more, see. Everybody shoot, then no more. Rabbit, same thing. You skin ’em. You no take the hair out. Just skin ’em. Take the inside, the meat, see. But my wife make frog legs. She skin ’em, she fry ’em. And
they put inside the pot, boil ’em. Put ‘okolehao inside the soup. Ho, the good eat, you know.
5.24.7 Examples of evriwan
