I have just returned from a week at my gran´s farm and read a note from Jonah riñendome for not posting a blog sooner. This means nagging, tuning, berating, on those lines.
The ñ is prounced nye so it has an apprpriatly grating sound for its meaning.
I have these words circling my head. I´ve learned some new expressions one is
¡Tierra tragame! This was uttered twice by my gran this last week and is accompanied by a rolling of eyes to the heavens. It means Earth swallow me! She used it once to say how embarrassed she was when she stayed with us in Giyani and I told my mom that she could never make bread as well as she could.
The other time she said it in great exasperation when her great grandson Dylan refused to eat his daily 5 spoons of grated carrot. So you see it is adaptable.
The other expression is ´tampoco era nada del otro jueves´ which means ´neither was it anything like last Thursday´ and it was in a book I´m reading called Cosmofobia and it was talking about a mediocre date and the english equivalent is something like ít wasn´t mindblowing´or ít wasn´t out of this world or something like that.
Anyway dears I will write more about my farm week tommorow. Then I start work on Mon...
love xxx
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