Posted by: lydiahartsell | March 16, 2010

R’s and L’s

“For the Plomotion of Japanese Demrocracy.”

This is what was written on the back of a Heart Institute Vehicle that my dala dala followed the other day.  It made me laugh. 

To help you all understand,  in some regions of Tanzania the r’s and l’s are interchangeable and transferable in the English language.  Though I haven’t been called Rydia yet, I do often hear “gloup,” “lest,” and “loom.”  Also, lottery gets mixed up with rotary.  For example, during our dissertation presentation proposals last week too one student mentioned that he was going to perform his sampling via the “rotary method.”

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