Sometimes the adventure of learning a new language gives you a beautiful nugget of joy to treasure. For me it generally comes by the way of watching myself or someone else making a funny mistake, but then you sometimes you stumble upon a word that is just great all on it's own. Recently, while visiting friends in another city, we went to an amusement park kind of place (the word for this 'fair' is funny in it's own right because it sounds like the word for worm...kinda. Well, if you add a few consonants it does.) that had cotton candy. Here we learned that the word/phrase for cotton candy is لحية متى جد (leHya mtaa jed) which literally translated means, "My grandfather's beard." For the first time ever, I enjoyed the language lesson more than the actual sweets! haha!
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| Enjoying 'my grandfather's beard" and ice cream with friends! |
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| It was quite odd but the cotton candy was melting nearly as quick as the ice cream. |
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| "Friends Night Out!" |
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