Interviewer : Uh then what do you call the man that delivers the mail? 100: Mail man. Interviewer : Alright and the man that picks up the garbage? 100: Garbage man. Interviewer : And what would you say a person has if he can get favors from city hall? 100: Political authority. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and uh what would you call a person maybe who worked for the city m- a city employee who had, really didn't have a job but they paid him anyway. 100: {NW} Interviewer : Most people don't have a name for that. Interviewer : The name for it is supposed to be pay roller but nobody's ever heard of that. Okay, um What would you call not a, a brand name but those great big food stores? 100: Grocery store. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. How about a, just a small neighborhood store? 100: Grocery store. Interviewer : Alright and how about those kind of specialty stores where they might sell special meats and salads? 100: Mm- Interviewer : Often they're run by Jewish people or German people. Interviewer : Deli? 100: Uh delicatessen. Interviewer : Alright. And I asked you the other day about that one so I'm not gonna repeat myself. Uh, uh what would you call a coin operated self-service laundry? 100: Coin laundry. Interviewer : Alright. Uh what would you call a thing that you might use to put dirty clothes in? 100: Washing machine. Interviewer : Well I, I don't mean to clean them I mean to keep them in #1 the c- # 100: #2 Hamper. # Interviewer : Yeah, mm-hmm. And then the thing that you, the electric thing you clean the rug with is a 100: Uh vacuum cleaner. Interviewer : And what is the thing in the vacuum cleaner that you have to take out and throw away? 100: Dust collector. Interviewer : Mm- #1 Okay. # 100: #2 Dirt- # Interviewer : And uh have you ever seen, I've never seen one, those things that some people have that takes the garbage and then makes it small? 100: Garbage compacter. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and what do you call the, the big thing that you put the garbage in outside? 100: Herbity curby. Interviewer : {NW} Yes, okay wha- {NW} uh how about something that's smaller that's metal that you just might have for a little garbage? 100: Tin can. Interviewer : Uh-huh and uh then in apartment complexes they sometimes have great big things #1 that you # 100: #2 Dumpsters. # Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh I should have asked you this earlier. Are cigarette's ever called anything else? Do you know any slang names for those? 100: Square. Interviewer : Ah yes, okay. I've heard that once before too and it was, it was new to me when I heard it before. What would you call an enclosed room in a house that's designed to receive a lot of sunlight? Interviewer : I guess it's glassed in. Has a lot of windows. 100: Mm Sw- Mm Green house? Interviewer : Okay. How about a, a th- I think I asked you that one. How about a room that just had a toilet and the sink but did not have a bathtub or a shower? 100: Bathroom. Interviewer : Alright, um we talked about well there's the, the um lunch bell so go ahead and have lunch and I'll see you in a few minutes. Interviewer : See, um. Oh we were talking about, I was about to start talking about heating the house. You said that there was, I don't, what would you call that kind of heating system you said where there's hot air? Do you call, is that forced air? 100: Central heating. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh well what are some other things that people pa- heat their houses with? 100: Radiators, Interviewer : #1 Mm- # 100: #2 fireplaces, # Interviewer : Mm-hmm. #1 Okay. # 100: #2 mm. # Interviewer : And suppose they have, they cool their air. What do you call that? 100: Air condition. Interviewer : Okay. And did you ever see a house, uh where they're just three rooms? One in back of the other? And if you open the front door you could see all the way through the house? Alright how about a house where they're just two rooms and then there's an open hall down in between the two rooms? Interviewer : Uh, how about a house where there is just one room and then a long entrance hall? Interviewer : Can you name any uh particular designs for unus- for little houses, for small houses? 100: Um Interviewer : No? Alright now you talked about apartment houses. What are, can you name any different types of apartments? 100: Um, name apartment houses? Interviewer : Well n- what are different types of apartments? 100: Government apartments. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NS} 100: High rent apartments, low rent apartments. Good apartments, bad apartments. 100: #1 Apartments. # Interviewer : #2 O- # Okay uh {NW} Did you ever see a, I don't think, {NS} I don't know if they have it here but {NS} they have it in {NS} some of the cities in the North. Uh places where the houses are so close together that in fact they join {NW} {X} Interviewer : There's just a whole line of houses and they have a wall in common? Alright how about uh the kind, the, I know they have these here. You, it's an apartment but you buy it you don't rent it and usually they're expensive. 100: Condominium. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and what would you call an apartment that's the whole level of a building? Interviewer : I don't know if they've got these here. They have 'em in Chicago. Interviewer : They call 'em flats in Chicago. That's not a term that I would know. What do you call a person that looks after the apartment that does the repairs and things like that? 100: Maintenance man. Interviewer : Alright. What would you call the person that takes people around and shows 'em new apartments? 100: Real estate man. Interviewer : Or how about the person that collects the rent? 100: Uh management. Interviewer : Alright, mm-hmm. And um {NS} did I skip one? No. Uh- what would you, if you had a house and a lawn you were gonna cut the grass, what would you use? 100: The lawnmower. Interviewer : Alright. Uh when you say lawn mower do you mean, well how is it powered? 100: Gas. Interviewer : Okay. Suppose it's- doesn't have a motor and you just have to push it, what would you call it? 100: Push mower. Interviewer : Okay. And suppose you can ride on it? 100: Riding mower. Interviewer : Alright. And what do they call those things that's kind of like a little hand plow that {NS} eats up your grass when you want to plant? Interviewer : I think people rent 'em a lot instead of buying 'em. Tiller? Do you know of that? Mm-kay uh how about something that if you were going out to dig, just a little hand thing? 100: Uh hoe. Interviewer : #1 Well- # 100: #2 Small # #1 hoe. # Interviewer : #2 with a # short handle. 100: Small hoe? Interviewer : Alright how about something with three prongs you might dig with? 100: {NW} {NW} Interviewer : If you're not a gardener you might not know all this stuff. And then to get the leaves off in the fall what would you use? 100: Rake. Interviewer : Are there different kinds of rakes? 100: Not that I know of. Interviewer : Kay and what would you use to cut the hedge? 100: Hedge clippers. Interviewer : Mm-kay and uh if a big tree blew down and you didn't want to saw it up by hand what sort of a saw might you use? 100: A power mo- a power saw. Interviewer : Mm-kay. And uh can you name some different kinds of beef? Different cuts of beef. Steaks especially. 100: Porter house. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: T-Bone. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Ground. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Round. Um- 100: Fillet mignon. Interviewer : Yeah. 100: {D: Mm let's see} 100: Porter house. Interviewer : Think you said that one. 100: Oh. Interviewer : Any other kinds of beef? 100: Steaks. Interviewer : Just beef. Not steaks. 100: Beef tongue. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Beef liver. 100: Mm. Interviewer : How about kinds of pork? 100: Pork chop. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Mm ham. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Chitlins. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Are there any different kinds of ham? 100: Uh cured ham, hickory ham. Interviewer : Yeah. 100: Sweet ham. Interviewer : Good. How about cuts of lamb? 100: Lamb chops, that's probably the only one I know. Interviewer : Mm-hmm yeah that's all most people know. What about some different kinds of uh poultry that you eat? 100: Chicken, turkey. duck. Um Interviewer : Are there different kinds of chicken depending on maybe what size or age the are? {NS} 100: {D: I don't know} {NS} Interviewer : Mm-kay how about uh different types of sausage? {NS} 100: Beef and pork chops. Interviewer : Mm-kay. How uh what is that thing that you get in a bun at the ball park? 100: Hot dog. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. When you say hot dog do you mean the meat and the bun or do you, could you just mean the meat? {NS} 100: Meat. {NS} Interviewer : Alright. Uh then what do you call the kind of sandwich that has several kinds of meat and sometimes cheese and it's usually on a big bun? {NS} 100: Uh Philadelphia cheese steak? #1 What'd you say now? # Interviewer : #2 Mm- # 100: #1 A submarine sandwich? # Interviewer : #2 I don't, I don't know that one. # A- what was that? 100: A submarine #1 sandwi- # Interviewer : #2 Okay # that's it. Do you know any other names for that one? 100: Mm hero sandwich. Interviewer : Yeah mm-hmm. Good. And uh what might you drink with a hero sandwich? 100: Beer or something. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. You have any nicknames for beer? Interviewer : Well what might you drink that was not alcoholic? 100: Coca-cola.{NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm okay. {NS} {NS} Um suppose you were {NS} #1 talking-{NS} # 100: #2 Water.{NS} # Interviewer : Hmm?{NS} 100: Water.{NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NS} You're talking about things that're not coca-co- not just coca-cola. 100: {X} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Mm-kay. {NS} Okay now stuff that's like, things that are like coca-cola, say Coke and Pepsi and R-C and ginger ale and all those things, what would you call all of 'em, that kind of drink? 100: Mm. Diet {NS} {NS} uh strong coke. {NS} Strong. {NS} Interviewer : Well would you use anything like pop or soda pop or soft drink or cold drink or anything? If you wanted, if you went into the store and said you'd- to order one, you'd say give me a 100: Drink. Interviewer : What would you mean when you say drink? 100: Let me have a drink. Uh, coca-cola. Interviewer : If you said drink you'd mean a coca-cola? Okay. Then uh what do you call things that you get at a bakery, it's, you, well people eat 'em for breakfast, it's a little sweet cake. 100: Uh danish? Interviewer : Okay good. Now what if it's the whole cake and not just a little individual piece? 100: Pound cake? Interviewer : Well it's like a danish though. It's that kind of thing. It might be in a ring. 100: Cinnamon roll? Interviewer : Okay, okay. Uh and then those stuff you spread on a cake is 100: Icing. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh wha- what would be stuff that was spread on donuts? 100: Icing. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then did you ever see a rectangular donut that didn't have a hole? Interviewer : How about a donut with jelly in it. What would you call that? 100: A jelly donut. Interviewer : Alright. What about a twisted donut? 100: Twirl. Interviewer : #1 A what? # 100: #2 Twirls. # Interviewer : Okay yeah. Mm-hmm. And uh what would you call a ring that had a big stone in it? 100: Uh class ring or diamond ring. Interviewer : Mm-kay. 100: Wedding ring. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And um different lengths of shorts, what are, what would you call knee-length shorts? 100: At the knee. Interviewer : Well would you have a name for that kind of shorts? 100: Knickerbockers or something. Interviewer : Alright what about lower than knee-length shorts? 100: I don't know I never seen nobody wearing none of those Interviewer : Alright how about really short ones? 100: Short shorts. Interviewer : Mm-kay good. How about clothes that are previously owned by somebody else. Maybe y- your older brother owned 'em and then passed 'em down to you? 100: Hand-me-down. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Suppose you went out and bought them in a second hand store? 100: Hand-me-down. Interviewer : Okay. What would you call very fashionable or good looking clothes? 100: Good looking clothes. Interviewer : Any slang name for that? 100: G-Q. Interviewer : What? 100: G-Q. Interviewer : What does that mean? 100: Fashion. It's a fashion book. where fashion clothes come from Interviewer : Is that a brand name? Mm-hmm okay. Uh then what would you store clothes in in the winter? 100: Closet. Interviewer : Uh would you put 'em in something in the closet? 100: No just in the closet Interviewer : What would you call the kind of bag you might get from the cleaners? 100: A plastic bag. Interviewer : How about the kind of bag you might use to put your suit in if you were going on a a trip. 100: Mm- I ain't never seen one. Interviewer : Alright. Uh can you name some different types of shoes? 100: Mm- 100: Tennis shoe. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Oxford. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Boat shoes. Interviewer : What are boat shoes? 100: Uh like penny loafers and Interviewer : #1 Uh-huh. # 100: #2 {X} # And uh look like Indian shoe. {NS} With a string on it. You tie 'em up. Interviewer : Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 100: And uh dress shoe. Interviewer : Alright. Is that all? Alright how about some different types of hair styles? 100: Afro. Braids. And um {NS} Shag. Low cut. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Interviewer : Okay there is a section now for different, for names for different types of people and um you may not know any of these. There're a bunch of 'em so just let me know if you don't. Well this one we've already really talked about. We talked about this a little bit yesterday. What might you call a man or a boy he might not be a homosexual but he just actu- acts kind of girlish? 100: Sissy. Interviewer : Alright now suppose he is a homosexual, what would you call him? 100: Gay. Interviewer : Okay how about a woman who was not, not homosexual but she acts kind of like a man? 100: Tomboy. Interviewer : Alright suppose she is a homosexual? 100: Lesbian. Interviewer : Good. What would you call a sexually overactive man? 100: Gigolo. Interviewer : Good and uh how about a sexually overactive woman? 100: {D: Gigolass.} Interviewer : {NW} How about a, a sexually indiscreet man? A man that sleeps around a lot? Then tells everybody about it? {NS} 100: Mm- {NS} Interviewer : #1 {X} # 100: #2 Slum. # Interviewer : {NS} Pardon? 100: Slum.{NS} {NS} Interviewer : Can't, couldn't hear you for the pencil- 100: Slum. Interviewer : Okay how about a sexually indiscreet woman? 100: Mm same thing. Interviewer : Alright. Ho- what would you call an ugly boy or man? 100: Ugly.{NS} Interviewer : Would you say boy look at that 100: Ugly man. Interviewer : Alright how about an ugly woman? 100: Same thing. Interviewer : {NS} Just ugly? How about a very nice looking boy or man? He sure is {NS} 100: Looking good.{NS} {NS} Interviewer : How about a very nice looking girl or woman? 100: She looks good. Interviewer : Alright how about a somebody that studies all the time? 100: Mm Interviewer : Do you use the word book-worm at all? 100: Not {X} Interviewer : What would you call a really smart person? Always makes all A's. {NS} 100: A smart person. He's really smart. Interviewer : Okay. What would you call a child in school that always tries to get favors from the teacher? 100: Teacher's pet. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. How about a person at work that tries to play up to the boss. What would you call him? 100: Boss's pet. Interviewer : {NW} Alright. Uh let's see how about uh what's the first school that you go to? 100: Preschool. Interviewer : And then? 100: Elementary. Interviewer : What grades are elementary? 100: First {NS} first through seventh. Interviewer : Alright and then what do you go to? 100: I went to middle school. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What grade was that? 100: Sixth through eighth. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and uh then after that is 100: High school.{NS} {NS} Interviewer : Kay good. {NS} {D: Don't get why people couldn't sharpen their pencils before they come} Uh what kind of a fence is around a playground in a school? 100: Mm- a wire fence. Interviewer : Any kind of, particular kind of wire? Okay what uh is the name of the building where they play basketball and that kind of thing? 100: Gym. Interviewer : Okay. Um what do you do in the gym besides play basketball? 100: Mm play hockey. Mm- play dodge ball, battle ball, baseball. s- mm- Interviewer : Do you do anything other than play games in there? Do you have assemblies in there? 100: Yeah assemblies. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Mm Pep assemblies Interviewer : Uh-huh. Do they ever have concerts or- speakers or anything like that 100: #1 {D: No} # Interviewer : #2 in the gym? # 100: They don't hardly have concerts but they got speakers. Interviewer : Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-kay, um now these are names for different groups of people. Mostly different um different nationality groups and if you've never known any people by these, of these nationalities then you probably don't have a name for 'em but if you've ever heard any names for these groups then just tell me. Um how about uh- oh uh w- before I do that I forgot to ask you what you call bathrooms in the school. 100: Restroom. Interviewer : Okay. Now to get back to the different types of people what would you call Chinese people? 100: Chin- Chin- Chinamen Interviewer : Alright how about Japanese people? 100: Japanese. Interviewer : Do you know any nicknames like Chink or Jap? 100: Jap. Interviewer : Okay. How about, uh what would you call Roman Catholics? {NS} 100: Romans? Interviewer : Any nicknames for them? How about uh very fundamentalist protestants? Interviewer : The, the kind of people that might get up and sing and shout and roll in the aisles? 100: Baptist. Interviewer : Alright. Um then how about Jewish people, what would you call them? 100: Jews. Interviewer : Do you know any slang names for Jews? Either good or bad? You know any names for American Indians? How about Germans? How about uh Dutch people? Italians? Poles? 100: Who? Interviewer : Polish people? How about Russians? 100: I don't know. Interviewer : Czechoslovakians? Lithuanians? Englishmen? Um Irishmen? Scots? Frenchmen? Cajuns? Do you know what Cajuns are? 100: Hmm? Interviewer : They're people that live in Louisiana that are part French. Uh Greeks? Cubans? Puerto Ricans? Mexicans? Uh Scandinavians? Canadians? Now you're not supposed to know those unless you know people with those particular ethnic backgrounds. What, what are the two major political parties? 100: Republican and Democratic. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Speaking of the political parties what do you think about the election? Who's gonna win? 100: Carter. Interviewer : You think he should win? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : He's better than Regan? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Think anybody's gonna vote for Anderson? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Very many? 100: No. Interviewer : Why not? 100: He just ain't got that much Public- publicity. Interviewer : Mm. Mm-hmm I guess he hadn't got as much money as the others. Why is Carter better than Regan? 100: Because he's already the president. And Carter thinking- I mean Regan thinking about the war. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Going to war and I don't want war. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Well I don't think anybody really wants a war. I don't know about Regan. Uh what do you call the uh people that I guess they used to have around, I don't know if they still do, that have the long hair and don't take #1 baths- # 100: #2 Hippies. # Interviewer : Do they still have 'em around? 100: {D: I don't know. Never seen 'em.} Interviewer : Are there any here? 100: #1 I don't # Interviewer : #2 No? # 100: think so. Interviewer : Okay. What would you call the uh the person of the same sex as yourself that you {NS} uh like to talk to and go around with the most? 100: Friend. Best friend. Interviewer : Mm-hmm okay. Was there, well especially when you were younger but I guess maybe now too, was there one group of children that you played with? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Did they- what would you call them? 100: Friend. Interviewer : Alright um what would you call it when maybe one child, one parent has died and somebody else in the neighborhood becomes really close, some adult becomes really close to the child? Interviewer : Sort of takes the place of his parent? 100: Mm- Interviewer : Did you ever hear of anything like a play-mom or a play-daddy? Have you? What have you heard? 100: I just heard of that. But I ain't ever seen nobody. But they- both of 'em had they had both parents but they just considered them their play-mama Interviewer : Well what is a play-mama then? 100: {D: I don't know} {C: mumbles} #1 I- # Interviewer : #2 Is she # related to the- 100: No I don't think so. {NS} Interviewer : Okay. Uh did you ever hear of a game, a word game, where people insult each other in rhyme and it gets worse and then they end up fighting? 100: Joaning Interviewer : Hmm? 100: Joaning {NS} {D: When} talking about somebody's mama {NS} joaning {NS} {NS} Interviewer : I, I don't, I don't know the word that you're saying, because what I heard it {NS} called is playing the dozens.{NS} Do you know that thing? Alright the word you're saying is what? 100: Joaning. Interviewer : Joaning? Joaning. I never heard that. You have said several things that I have never heard and I'm really interested in that. Uh did it, does anything happen when a new kid moves into your neighborhood because you said nobody new ever moves in. But if anybody did would there be anything you'd have to do to make himself one of the gang? Interviewer : Did you ever know that to happen where you've lived? Okay. Well now almost the last thing. I wanna know about some games. Can you tell me some hiding games that you used to play, or play now? 100: Hide and go seek and kick the can. Interviewer : Is kick the can a hiding game? I don't know how to play it. Tell me. 100: Te- somebody, somebody throw the can up in the air and then when he kick the can he close his eyes and everybody hide. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: And then when they, they can then get, kick the can before he can, they go kick the can and they safe. Interviewer : Mm. Mm-hmm. I, I know I never saw anybody play it, I've just heard of that game. Anymore hiding games? 100: Fox and the hound. Interviewer : How do you play that? 100: Chasing game. Interviewer : Okay any, how about some more chase games? 100: {NW} Tag out of jail. Interviewer : Tag out of jail? 100: See you know like this room right here Interviewer : Uh-huh. 100: Like somebody like you get somebody like can bring 'em in here. Interviewer : Uh-huh. 100: You have a guard standing right here. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: And you want and the person's outside want you to cha- want the guard to chase them. So the other person that on they're team can come around and touch it Interviewer : #1 Uh-huh. # 100: #2 {D: up there s} # so they can get out. Interviewer : Then they get out. 100: Mm- Interviewer : How do you know who wins? 100: Person who gets all the persons in. Get all the persons in jail. Then they switch over to the other side. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. 100: Keep on playing until they get tired. Interviewer : Well if you never got everybody in jail then 100: You never get a #1 chance to go. # Interviewer : #2 {NW} # {NW} You just play the rest of your life huh? Okay uh h- are there any games, I think this is mostly for little children that you play in a ring? 100: Mm {NS} Interviewer : Um little Sally Walker, did you ever play that? How about ring around the rosie, farmer in the dell, any of those? London bridge? 100: London bridge probably. Interviewer : It's too long ago you can't remember? Uh how about uh you mentioned some ball games and I guess, well you mentioned hockey which is played with a puck. Um any more ball games that you haven't mentioned? 100: Football. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Baseball. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Basketball. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Racquetball. I play that sometimes with my #1 dad. # Interviewer : #2 Oh. # Mm-hmm. 100: Tennis. Interviewer : Yeah. 100: Um Interviewer : Do you play any games with a knife? Interviewer : How about um with a rope? Interviewer : Do you ever jump rope or is that just girls? 100: Mm it ain't for girls but I don't do it. Interviewer : Mm-kay. Uh how about marbles. Do you play with them? 100: Used to. Interviewer : Can you, are there any marble games you could tell me about? 100: It's just shoot the marbles. Try to hit the other marble. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Did you play for keeps? Do the different marbles have names? 100: Yeah. The big one was {X} And the blue one was b- m- the uh the uh let me see. 100: The mu- blue one was a cat eyes and the green one was the green and wh- the blue and white one was cat eye and I done forgot all the rest. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. I remember cat eye, I think I had some of those. Um did you ever play jacks? Interviewer : Alright how about uh can you name some kinds of parties that they that you have now or that you had when you were little? 100: Birthday party. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Just party and uh Christmas parties. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: New years party, fourth of July party Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Halloween party. 100: East- no we don't have no Easter party. We had almost all of them for every holiday except for uh Easter. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Do they have parties here at school? 100: Yes. They have dances. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. What, uh what are the occasions? Why do they have the dances? 100: Uh after the football game they have a dance. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Do they call it a certain kind of dance? 100: N- you know uh it's like a party but it's a dance Interviewer : #1 Uh-huh # 100: #2 you know like a # ball. Interviewer : Uh-huh. 100: It's just called they have it on Thursdays. Interviewer : Mm, that seems like a bad day if you have to go to school on Friday. 100: Mm. Interviewer : Couldn't stay out late. Uh what kinds of music do you like to listen to? 100: Soul music Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Anything else? 100: Um rock. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Okay. Um what kinds of music don't you like? {NS} 100: Country. Interviewer : Okay uh-huh. Um uh tell me what do y- what you think about, about speaking correct English and all of that? Do you think everybody ought to speak correct English? {NS} Does it matter? Interviewer : Now what do you think about that? What, what do you think about the way people talk? 100: Just everybody talk probably. There wouldn't be no hardly no vocabulary and everybody ha- some people have to talk correct. So they know they have manners, sometimes. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Well who talks correctly? 100: Mostly parents. Interviewer : Parents do, okay. I guess school teachers do. {NS} If you wanted to know what was correct in terms of talking or writing or something who would you ask? Or how would you find out? 100: I ask my teachers. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: And my mom. Interviewer : Okay. Uh-huh. Um do you, do you talk differently to white people then you do black people? Do you talk differently to older people then you do to kids your age? How so? 100: Talk nice. Interviewer : Is there something you'd say to kids that you wouldn't say to adults? Interviewer : Like what? 100: Shut up. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Yeah I can see how if you told your teacher to shut up that would not go over very well. Uh do you, well what about writing? Do you think everybody ought to write correctly? Interviewer : Mm-kay. Um well I think that's just about it. Is there anything else you wanna say? 100: Can I finish my homework or anything like that? Interviewer : Okay as is, is it for Spanish? The homework that- 100: Yeah. Interviewer : You mean the homework that you're supposed to turn in today? {NS} 100: Naw. Tomorrow but I wanna finish the homework, got this class too. Because I go to the next Interviewer : Oh is that the next period? 100: Yes I been here since all day. #1 so I need- # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # Mm-hmm. Why didn't you do it last night? 100: I had to go somewhere with my m- me and my mom and dad went somewhere. Interviewer : {NW} Interviewer : Well, I don't know if Ms. Cantrell's gonna like the idea, because I've got to go and see her now to s- to talk to Priscilla. Interviewer : Now I really think you'd better come back down to Ms. Cantrell's class but anyway, thank you very much for doing this.