Example 23-40

be i gud yufala i talem olsem
be
but
i
agr
gud
good
yufala
2pl
i
agr
talem
tell
olsem
like
But it's good you tell (me) this.
Comment:
Reconstructed from a conversation two men had in front of me (but which was not recorded). The addressee was the speaker's classificatory uncle, hence the appropriateness of yufala (normally a plural pronoun) in addressing an individual.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Meyerhoff 1999: 237