Saturday, November 5, 2022

Stairs and Ladder

 The bell rang. Two young women. The older asked if they could borrow stares or something like that. So I asked in Indonesian if that's an Indonesian word and she looked at her Google translate and I asked what is it in Indonesian and she said "tanga. Oh - not stairs. Ladder. Stairs are part of the building. A ladder you can move. You want to borrow our ladder. Indonesian uses the same word for both. Now before I give you our ladder could you remind me what it's for. Oh right, she's Nisa from Jakarta, wife of Evert from Holland. They live down at the end of the gang. She's a neighbor. Sometimes have to make sure I don't call a neighbor a ladder or stairs, tanga. Neighbor is tatanga, 

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