Example 12-114

And you know in that settlement, used to be ten years, five years before somebody dies. Yeah, 'cause we - we - we eating - we ain't know - know nothing about no high blood and no - no - uh - diabetes and - and cancer and things like that, 'cause we were eating straight from the farm, you know. So those people was strong, they used to live 80, 90, a hundred years. Old people, on the Island. And now - every week, so much of young. Yeah, when I [...] open the papers on Thursday, I see the o- I say, You live good. Live a ripe old age. 27, 26, people dying from AIDS and this and that.
[...]
[...]
in
in
that
that
settlement,
settlement
used
hab.pst
to
hab.pst
be
cop
ten
ten
years
years
[...]
[...]
before
before
somebody
indf
dies
die.hab
[...]
[...]
'cause
because
we
1pl.sbj
[...]
[...]
eating
eat.prog
[...]
[...]
because
because
we
1pl.sbj
were
1pl.cop.pst
eating
eat.prog
straight
straight
from
from
the
the
farm
farm
eating
eat.prog
[...]
[...]
people
people
was
3pl.cop.pst
strong,
strong
they
3pl.sbj
used
hab.pst
to
hab.pst
live
live
80
eighty
[...]
[...]
years
years
[...].
[...]
[...] in that settlement, it used to take ten years, [five years,] before somebody would die [again] [...] because we were eating [...] we were eating straight from the farm [...] So those people were strong, they used to live 80, [90, a hundred] years [...].
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews