Missouri Six - Text
Caucasian female, 17 years old. Born in St. Louis, and raised in St. Peters. Subject recites Comma Gets a Cure, tells a childhood story, decribes her mom and outside school activities, and completes the interview with a description of her day. Interviewed by Tim Hansen and Shawn M. Muller, and edited by Shawn M. Muller on 9-22-00. Recording length 00:03:35.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
(Um) I was in Kindergarten, an’ it was, like, the first week of school. An’ I wen’ out to recess, an’ I jus’ sat down to play a game with one of my friends. An’ then these really two mean boys in Kindergarten, like, dragged me over to the flagpole, an’ they, like, tied me to the flagpole with some jump ropes. An’ I was stuck there till the end of recess, and my teacher had to come untie me. ’n’ that was not fun. (Uh) My mom’s a nurse. She works on the surgical floor at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis, an’ she works nights. And then, I don’t have a dad. I go out with my friends, go to parties, go to concerts, go shopping, stuff like that. Well, (um) we woke up, and we ate a cup of coffee, an’ (um) came to school, at like seven o’clock in the morning. And I had a flute sectional. An’ then, first hour, I watched The Great Dictator, which was okay. (Um) second hour, I had keyboarding, ’s kinda boring. An’ third hour was choir, which was cool, ’cause it’s just fun. And fourth hour was advanced composition, an’ we had discussion day, so we just debated on some different stuff, so… (Um) We debate on (um) ‘should parents stay together in a divorce for the children, or would it be better if they just divorced?’ To say if (er) would it be better, so... An’ then over (um) ‘should lyrics and musics, and song or music be (um) handled by the government, or who should it be handled by, or how should it be handled?’ Like, the explicit lyrics and things like that, so… (Um) I think that explicit lyrics in songs, like-- They-- they brought up Eminem, as an example. I think that (um) that should be regulated by… If not by the writer, then by the record company or the government or somebody.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, July 1, 2008