Monday, August 12, 2013

Which Reminds Me

When we were young living in El Salvador, Bobby and David amused us with their imitations of the peasant dialect of Salvadorans who live way out in the countryside where Spanish is linguistically distorted by various influences. The word "pues" becomes "pos" and there are lots of "g" substitutions with the "gua" sound is thrown in there so that, for example, the word "bueno" mutates somehow to "guano." Very interesting.

And who is this Mary Stewart from whom they claim descent? I have no idea. They never tell us anything. Oh, I had not realized they had such strong "Stewart" ties wielded over us that they would even consider themselves Stewart heirs. Sometimes the Stewarts are just too dominant there and so we have to get away to find our own space, no insult intended. It just really grates when we know that they are obviously nowhere in the monarchical roster of future potentates, at least not any time soon. I am just saying.