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You hear the most interesting things sometimes in the check-out line.
This time at Cost-U-Less.
A mom with her kids. As they are waiting, the kids are eyeing the little goodies they stack by the cashier. I don't even know what the one kid was wanting, but he says to mom, in English, "Mom, can I get?"
She says, in English, "Which you like?"
Again, I think, a Chamorro-ism. A direct translation of what she'd have said in Chamorro, "Måno ya-mo?" "Which you like?" Or she could have asked, "Which you want?" as in "Måno malago'-mo?"
Rather than, "Which one do you like, or want?"
Sort of how like in Minnesota dialect they say, "Do you want to come with?"
ReplyDeleteinstead of "Do you want to come with us?"