Dobleve

This is just one of the gems I dropped last night in conversation. Repeatedly. For some reason, for the entire night, I was confusing the words for “parents” and “walls” (padres and pareds). I don’t know why since “padres” is one of the few Spanish words I knew when we first moved to Spain…. Another favorite was Brian’s – “my shoes keep sticking to my dreams” (suelo means floor, sueño means dream). And, finally, perhaps the most confusing of all is when our (superbly bi-lingual I might add) friend was asking us questions about the legal system in the United States. We talked about federal vs. local laws and enforcement methods, the different levels of the courts, and then Brian started talking about beds. Or so it seemed. The Spanish word for bed is “cama” which phonetically sounds exactly like the American pronunciation of “comma”. Our friend and I just paused trying to figure out what he was going on about. Of course he meant the punctuation mark, not a bed, and when I realized this I added a helpful hand/air gesture to the conversation. At this point our friend gave us a (very familiar) strange look apparently thinking we had somehow segued into pornography.

Doing our bit to mix up the world, one word at a time.