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TINA HILL - Exercise in transcription



Excerpt from original, conventional transcript:


Hill: I had to cook breakfast, serve. They had a man and a wife and four kids, but the kids was little, too. The smallest ones was twins and they wasn't too old. They had a nurese that took care of the twins. So I had to wash and iron, clean the house, cook. That was my job. So it was all day or practically, you know, and I had very little time for myself.

They weren't very nice people. They were just plain white people that had finally got them some money or something like that, but they weren't nice. They really was not nice; they was just -- somebody...



Experimental free verse version:

I had to cook breakfast, serve -
They had a man and a wife and four kids. But the kids -
the little - the two- the smallest ones - was twins and they -
Oh, they had a nurse that took care of the twins.
So I had to wash and iron,
clean the house
and cook.
That wqas my - my - job.
So I - er all day I practically, and I have very little time for myself.

They weren't very nice people.
They were just plain white people
that had finally got `em some money or something like that.
But they were not nice
they really was not nice
They just SOMBODY.

Last update: 8/25/05