Columbus and Grand Island are home to a large and ever-increasing Hispanic population, and, while my Spanish is very poor, I try at least to pronounce peoples’ names properly.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, the rules for Spanish pronunciation are fairly straightforward; so as long as I can see a name in print, I can pronounce it with something resembling accuracy.<\/p>\n
One of the conventions of Spanish pronunciation is the double “l”, which makes the “y” sound, as in “yarn”. <\/p>\n
So I am used to seeing double ls and reading Y. <\/p>\n
What I am not used to is what happened Saturday evening as I drove home from work. <\/p>\n
I saw a llama sitting in a yard and I thought…<\/p>\n
Perhaps I have mentioned before my affinity for the written word; for instance, how I rarely understand movies unless they are accompanied by subtitles? But with all my affinity for the written word, I still think verbally. I think in spoken<\/i> words rather than in written<\/i> words. <\/p>\n
Except for this time.<\/p>\n
This time, I saw the llama and my brain thought in written form.<\/p>\n
“Huh, there’s a llama in that llard.”<\/p>\n
Yep. That’s right.<\/p>\n
When I “read” what my brain had written, I read it as “There’s a lah-muh in that yard”, but I spelled it as written above.<\/p>\n
Weird. Just weird.<\/p>\n
The things our minds do.<\/p>\n
My apologies for all my blog readers who are also Facebook friends who have thus been forced to hear this story twice. Have I mentioned that I’m experiencing a bit of bloggers’ block? Feel free to ignore everything I write until I emerge from this funk.<\/strike> Actually, I take that back. I’d still really, really appreciate your interaction. Maybe it would help me come out of the funk faster?<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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