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'Green' and 'blue'
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Example 12-279:
She start throwing up her liver - her inside - she start throwing up all kind of
green
stuff.
She
3sg
.
f
.
sbj
start
start[
pfv
]
throw-ing
throw-
prog
up
up
[...]
[...]
all
all
kind
kind[
pl
]
of
of
green
green
stuff.
stuff
She started to throw up [...] all kinds of green stuff.
Example 12-280:
Grouper, snapper, yeah - all kind of fish - turpid [?] - turpid [?] is a fish - uh - it's yellow, purple,
blue
- blue - it get a little streak of pink, yeah.
[...]
[...]
all
all
kind
kind[
pl
]
of
of
fish
fish
-
turpid
turpid
[?]
[?]
[...]
[...]
is
cop
a
art
fish
fish
[...]
[...]
it's
3sg
.
n
.
sbj
.
cop
yellow,
yellow
purple,
purple
blue
blue
[...].
[...]
[...] it's yellow, purple, and blue [...].
Confidence:
Very certain
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Language:
Bahamian Creole
Feature:
'Green' and 'blue'
Source:
Own knowledge
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