New York 12

Listen to New York 12, a 34-year-old woman from Smithtown, Long Island, and New York City, New York, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 34

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1969

PLACE OF BIRTH: Smithtown, Long Island, New York

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: college

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject went to college in Binghamton, New York, and has lived in Germany. She was residing in Astoria, Queens, New York City, at the time of this interview.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Joel Gedes

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/06/2003

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

… from Smithtown, New York.  It’s on Long Island, on the North Shore, about 50 miles.  It’s off of the, uh, Port Jeff line.  That’s how most people know Long Island, by the train line, the Long Island Railroad.  Well I grew up there, and I left when I went to college.  So, about 18, I guess.  Up in Binghamton, New York.  I’ve lived, I guess in Manhattan, and a little bit in — a short time in Germantown, but no other states.  Yep, I live in Queens, in Astoria.  All right, well, one time I was in, uh, Italy, and I had to use — I had to use a toilet very badly, so I went to, um, I asked this guy — It was in Venice — and I asked this guy, uh, if I could use, if he knew of where a public toilet was, and he — we couldn’t communicate at all.  He spoke heavy Italian, uh, no English; I didn’t speak any Italian.  So he led me to his workshop, a basement, where he offered me a jar. [Laughs]  And, and I couldn’t do it, because I was too embarrassed.  So, I left, and still had to use the bathroom.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jacqueline Baker

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/09/2007

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