New York 27

Listen to New York 27, a 21-year-old woman from the Bronx, New York City, New York, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 21

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/06/1993

PLACE OF BIRTH: The Bronx, New York City

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: N/A

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject’s mom speaks much more Spanish than English. Her dad also speaks Spanish-accented English.

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RECORDED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/03/2014

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born and raised in the Bronx. My parents have been living there since I believe 1975? And my dad comes from Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, and my mom is from Quito, Ecuador — probably in Quito, Ecuador, ‘cause it’s like, the climate is really beautiful; it’s always like, sixty or seventy degrees, like, it never goes below that or above that, so it’s like perfect weather.

Um, I really like photography and going to concerts, so that’s like one of my favorite things to do, pretty much — taking pictures of flowers and nature and stuff like that. Um, usually just like in parks or like, I mean, any place like that, like gardens and stuff like that. Yeah, but I haven’t really seen much right now ‘cause of the weather — it’s like everything’s dead over there. My favorite band, they’re called Pierce the Veil; they’re like, uh, they’re Mexican-American, and their type of music is like, um, post hardcore.

We say, like, a lot, we say like “mad,” like, “Oh, this is mad” — like good or, like, ya know, if it’s really good or something, you say “mad.” Or like “O.D.,” which is kinda the same thing, like, it’s a lot of something. OK, you could say like, something, like, “Oh, that play was mad good,” “That movie was mad good,” something like that or … I guess O.D., O.D. I guess you could use it the same way pretty much.

My mom speaks mostly Spanish; my dad knows a lot more English, but they still have their accent, like, you can tell that they’re not from here. I think through a mutual friend, like, my mom was just visiting — she was visiting New York for some reason, and then my dad had already been living here, and then that person got them to meet, pretty much. I have an older brother. Well, he recently moved away, like, two years ago, ‘cause he got married and he works in the security company for MetLife … and, yeah. It — yeah it’s in … where is it? Forty-Second Street?

TRANSCRIBED BY: Shawnia Keith (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 02/05/2014

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