Datapoint Bahamian Creole/'Hear' and 'smell'
Hear may have an extended meaning 'to understand', but it does not appear to be used in the sense of 'to smell' in Bahamian Creole. (see Example 277)
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Differentiation
- Example 12-276:
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They have some bush what my granddaddy used to - Pip! - it smell like worm medicine - like the worm medicine.[...][...]it3sg.n.sbjsmellsmelllikelikewormwormmedicinemedicine[...].[...][There is this plant] [...] it smells like worm medicine [...].
- Example 12-277:
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I hear 'bout - I hear people say they is see one horse be riding, too. One ghost horse. Ghost horse. In the night time. Child, like - like mus'e race horse, but say they's be riding backwards, but I never see none of them.I1sg.sbjhearhear'boutabout-I1sg.sbjhearhearpeoplepeoplesaysay[...][...]I know people who say [they’ve seen a horse riding. A ghost horse.]
- Example 12-278:
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Because like the slang is come off they tongue when they reach to Nassau, but if you meet someone what just come from Eleuthera, then you hear.[...][...]thenthenyou2sg.sbjhear.hear[...] [when you meet someone who’s just come from Eleuthera (an Out Island),] you hear (that they speak another dialect).
- Confidence:
- Certain