Fun things happen when you live in Africa...really more like weird things happen without explanation. Lately my hands have been itching. For the past 2 months I've woken up just about every night due to this ridiculous itching thing. Don't judge me, it's not my fault. I even went to the dermatologist in Egypt and she had no answers. What do I do now?
Today in my language class we were discussing this newfound trouble and I learned that the word for itching is 'teakelnee'. Literally translated 'it is eating me'. Kind of strange. In my Arabic learning I've tried to not learn things through literal translation but to just hear the word and apply it.
Now I'm wondering how many weird things I say b/c I didn't take the time to care about the literal translation. I only figured this one out b/c I know the word for 'to eat'. If I didn't know the word for 'to eat' I would have gone around saying that my hands were eating me without even knowing it. Not that it changes anything. I mean, that's how they say something itches. So if I ever want to say something is itching I'll have to say it's eating me or they won't understand. But I'll be laughing on the inside!
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