Jun 16, 2011

"The cold weather is not here"

One night Kairaba returned from the mosque and greeted us with “Good evening! How is the cold weather?” And Sellu replied, “The cold weather is not here.” I think a more apt response would have been a sarcastic “ha-ha,” so I should learn how to say that in Pulaar.


And on a different evening:
Mamadou: It is cold here.
Me: Cold?
Mamadou: It is not cold here.
Me: Yes.
Mamadou: But tomorrow afternoon it will be cold.
Me: Tomorrow afternoon?
Mamadou:: Tomorrow afternoon.

It wasn’t.

Not even a little.

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