Marc bought something in Kandi last week which had the following label (the only other language on it was Chinese). I think this is supposed to be English ... and can you guess what object it is referring to?!
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- lish
- Parakou, Benin
- Wife to Marc, Mum to Simon, Benjy and Eve. We have lived in Benin, W. Africa for ten years, serving with SIM. I work with the Monkolé Bible translation project, and Marc homeschools our kids and teaches and trains in the Monkolé churches.
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I will be the first, then perhaps some others will have a guess, I expect I am wrong but is it some sort of firework or sparkler?
Jose
Good guess, but nothing quite so dangerous as that! Anyone else have any ideas?
goodness knows!!
Bizarrely enough, it was just a ruler! Not quite sure why children under three need to be supervised by their paterfamilias!
Hahaha! That made me smile a lot. It reminds me of our time in Japan - often things that were "in English" were completely incomprehensible.
Some funny translation phrases in our daily life "stuck" - one was "for your happy life" which was an advertising slogan and another that was the translation of a car handbook was "moon roof" instead of sunroof!
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