Hawaii 2b

Listen to Hawaii 2b, a 22-year-old man from Kane’ohe/Kahalu’u, Oahu, Hawaii, United States. This is the same subject as Hawaii 2a. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 22

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1980

PLACE OF BIRTH: Kane’ohe/Kahalu’u, Oahu, Hawaii

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Polynesian/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: tour guide

EDUCATION: high school

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: N/A

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Jared Bodine and Craig Ferre

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 11/04/2003

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

[See 2A for this subject’s scripted and main unscripted speech. Recording 2B, which is transcribed below, contains a discussion of Hawaiian language.] Something that’s funny is that I always thought that those words were English, till I was like seventh grade. I totally thought that pau was a English word, and I thought puka was a English word too. An’ I – an’ I remember like going to the mainland and visiting my cousin, an’ I was, like, “Oh, your shirt has a puka,” an’ they’d be like, “What? A puka?” An’ I was, like, “Yeah, it has a puka in it.” An’ it was, like, “What’s a puka?” An’ I used to think like they were dumb or somethin’. I was, like, “You’re so dumb.  You don’t even know what a puka is.”  An’ they’re li–  I’m serious.  I totally thought those were English words for the longest time and a half.  But, I proved to be the dumb one.  An’ then I told my mom, an’ I’m, like, “They don’t even know what puka is.” An’ she’s, like, “That’s a Hawaiian word.”  An’ I was like, “Oh, oh.  Oops.”  Mistake.  The thing is that… I can, a lot of times I talk according to my environment too.  [Interviewer:  Yeah.]  Like, if I’m talking to someone who’s full out, like going pidgin on me.  It just happen– happened after.  This, like, boom, I’m there. But it’s almost like the way I– And the communication, like, if I am talking to someone who doesn’t really talk pidgin, then I just, I don’ wanna talk for me to talk like full out, an’ get all bus’ on ’em.  See, because, when I read this story, I– I just tried to read it normal, like how you said, like how I would read it, but I re– really read it, really r– like bad.  Or I could read it– I probably coulda read it a lot better, like, there’s words that, I know, like, I wouldn’t say it like that unless my English teacher is listening.  And like I’m, like, for example, like, the words like, like, because we have, like, this whole lesson in high school about how Hawaiian kids don’t talk good English.  [Laughs]  I’m serious, and it’s really funny, like, we have to learn to say stuff like, it’s not whale, it’s whale [emphasizes h], and it’s white.  And, it’s not tree [has ch sound], it’s tree.  You know, stuff like that, but I never did say that, so I just read it how I talk [Interviewer: That’s cool.] So tree, try, whatever.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jacqueline Baker

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/06/2008

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

This is the same subject as 2A.

COMMENTARY BY: N/A

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

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