Dusk vs. Dawn

Remember when we eat dinner at dawn in Punta del Este?

When Bilingu said this, it alerted me to the fact that Bilingu had his dusk and dawn backwards. 

Let's review

Dusk = (night)

Dawn = (morning)

The Infants

Today, Bilingu was angry at some of his Bilingu friends. They were dragging him to a dumb movie that starred, according to Bilingu, "Keanu Botox Reeves," and it was not going to be a good time.

I asked Bilingu why his friends had chosen such a movie if it is apparently so bad.

"Because they are infants!" He said.

I then told him that we don't say "infants" in that context in English, since infants can't sit up, or roll over, or really do anything of note.

Bilingu said, "In spanish speaking countries they do more stuff than there. We are very advanced human beings. Is not our fault your limitations."

What does mean?

Bilingu is a good little learner, and he always likes to get things straight. For instance, Bilingu is always asking good questions to improve his vocabulary. He likes to say, confidently:

"What does mean?"

Even This One Bilingu Reads

Today I was chatting online with Bilingu and telling him I needed to update this blog. Then I started complaining that the last time I updated it he hadn't noticed because he hadn't been reading it.

"I read the whole thing," Bilingu typed. "Even the ones with the Prairy house."

Bilingu is Hot

(He's the one picking his nose.)

Bilingu in California

When Bilingu and I were in California this summer, we were talking about street sweeping. I was talking about how Bilingu had to move the car to the other side of the road on my parents' street so that it didn't get a ticket, since it was street sweeping day and all. I asked Bilingu about how the signs work in Argentina for making sure the cars are at least 3 feet from the curb on street sweeping day, and he told me that they don't have to be a whole 3 feet away. 

"Is the machine that small?" I wanted to know.

"The machine is a little man with a broom," Bilingu said. 

Memories of whiteness

Bilingu was telling me a story about an Argentine friend of his who he has known since he was only 4 years old (or maybe younger, it's sometimes hard to remember the details of every single one of Bilingu's stories). In describing the friend, he said that as a child the friend was small and skinny and "very white" (Bilingu was talking in Spanish).

I told Bilingu that that concept didn't translate culturally, and that white people don't think of younger white people as being more white than when they are older.

Bilingu, disagreed, saying that smaller white and non-white people are all whiter when they are smaller because they have not been around the sun as much.

Hm.