{"id":1487,"date":"2013-07-15T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2014-01-12T09:56:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T09:56:29","slug":"adventures-in-language-learning-you-fuc-a-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Language learning: you fuc-a-me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/small-garlic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1492\" alt=\"small garlic\" src=\"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/small-garlic1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/small-garlic1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/small-garlic1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/small-garlic1-210x139.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is J. I felt it important to share this humerus and slightly disturbing language learning adventure today. Mid day I went out to buy some garlic cloves for dinner tonight and there were some local woman selling spices on the side of the road. I bought some okra and was going to buy some garlic but didn&#8217;t have small bills. I walked to a local corner store (ducan) and bought garlic there. When I had change I walked back to buy garlic from the woman. After purchasing her garlic a girl of about 10years came up to me and said, &#8220;you fuc-a-me&#8221; and held out a five Sudanese pound bill (this is equivalent to $1.24 USD).<\/p>\n<p>I was slightly troubled did I just get solicited by this ten year old girl? Thinking I heard her wrong I said, &#8220;tahni?&#8221; (or again?). Once again she said, &#8220;you fuc-a-me&#8221;. Hmmm I heard her right. I saw an older woman laugh and thought I might be in a bad situation really fast I said, &#8220;no..noo&#8230;I need to go home&#8221; and waved my finger back and forth in the air as I spoke. As I walked home I thought to myself did I just get solicited by a ten year on the streets of Melut?<\/p>\n<p>Once returning home I saw Eli, who understands quite a bit more Arabic then me. I proceeded to tell him that a 10 year old girl was trying to solicit something and wanted five pounds. When I explained that she said, &#8220;you-fuc-a-me&#8221; Eli laughed.\u00a0 He went on to explain that &#8221; fuc-a&#8221; means to change.\u00a0 The little girl wanted five one Sudanese pounds in exchange for her five Sudanese pound bill.\u00a0 That is one word I will not have to write on an index card and memorize for it has been burned into my memory. I now feel safe walking the streets of Melut again.\u00a0 That is it for now.<\/p>\n<p>-J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is J. I felt it important to share this humerus and slightly disturbing language learning adventure today. Mid day I went out to buy some garlic cloves for dinner tonight and there were some local woman selling spices on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}