Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Addendum Addendum.

I forgot about that Nigerian cafeteria -

The last time I was in there, as it was closing up, the counter girl, this (black) teenager with an American accent, must have been told in some African language (Yoruba?) by an older woman who works there (her mother?) to help get chairs from upstairs to take into the main dining room, because the woman spoke to her and she stood on the staircase that goes up from the main dining room, and then would shout instructions to her, and she'd yell them up to some guy upstairs, who'd then come down with a chair to give to her and she'd run down and give it to the woman.

In the midst of shouting, the woman said something in African, and the girl yelled up, "Yellow!", and then the woman yelled at her really severely, and the girl yelled up more loudly, "No, orange, I meant orange!", and you could tell that she must have been born here or come over at a young age and she must only speak the language a bit at home, if she confuses words for similar colors.

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