Early in the evening today, the boy came running down the stairs from his room.
"MA! MA! MAAAA!"
I was at our backyard checking my newly planted lemongrass, and was talking on the phone with my older sister so I didn't hear him right away.
"Unsa man?" (What is it?) I shouted from outside the house.
"What does 'mahal kita' mean?"
"It means 'I love you!'", I answered.
"Oh shoot!"
"Why?"
"I thought it meant 'We're expensive!'"
Hahahaha. Poor Kid!
P.S. The word 'mahal' can also mean 'expensive' in the Visayan dialect and 'kita' means 'we' in both Tagalog and Bisaya, but when used together in Tagalog like 'Mahal Kita', it has a totally different meaning. By the way, we speak Bisaya within the family.
4 comments:
I have a lot of tagalog mistakes. i should tell next time we chat.
BUdoy has a point. lol
HAHAHAHA.. Kaboom!
Wow! This exactly what it means in Malaysia's Malay language - We are expensive!
Awh this is cute :)
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