Baby-man!

I may or may not have written in a previous post that I'm the fourth or fifth Peace Corps volunteer that my family has had. My host mom has learned a few English words, and is always asking to learn more. One night, after proudly showing that she remembered the words "man" and "woman" she told me she forgot the word for "child," so I told her, and then told her the word for "baby," too. After which she announced, "Baby man! Bobo gorko!" In Pulaar, that's how baby boy would be translated. Maybe I should have corrected her, but I just couldn't.