{"id":1129,"date":"2012-05-08T13:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2012-06-28T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T20:16:08","slug":"wapuru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2012\/05\/08\/wapuru\/","title":{"rendered":"Wapur\u00fa"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day, Beni, one of the women of the village stopped by for a little visit with her girls.\u00a0 We always enjoy their visits as they are very expressive and funny.\u00a0 We always learn new words with them and they stretch our knowledge of the language in trying to understand them and talk with them.<\/p>\n

As they were leaving, Katie gave the girls a red and white round peppermint.\u00a0 The oldest one popped it into her mouth and said, “It tastes like wapur\u00fa<\/em>!”\u00a0 I grabbed my notebook and wrote, “wapur\u00fa<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I thought, “This is great!\u00a0 I was going to learn how to describe tastes and smells.\u00a0 Here’s a word!”<\/p>\n

So, in Nahuat, I asked, “What is wapur\u00fa<\/em>?”\u00a0 The girl answered, “Who knows!”<\/p>\n

So, I asked, “Is it a fruit?”\u00a0 The girl said, “Who knows!”<\/p>\n

Then I said, “Is it sweet?”\u00a0 The girl said, “Who knows!”<\/p>\n

Getting nowhere with the daughter, I asked the mother.\u00a0 She could not explain anything about what wapur\u00fa<\/em> was, either.\u00a0 So, I made a note to check it with my language helper the following day.<\/p>\n

The next time I met with my language helper, I started by reviewing words or phrases that I had heard but hadn’t understood.\u00a0 At the end of the list was “wapur\u00fa<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Katie gave a candy to a girl yesterday and she said it tasted like ‘wapur\u00fa<\/em>.’\u00a0 What is that?”<\/p>\n

<\/em>She said, with slightly better pronunciation than the previous day’s visitors, “Vapurub?”<\/p>\n

No more explanation needed!<\/p>\n

Who knew?\u00a0 Peppermints taste like VapoRub!<\/p>\n

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