Wayne came to work with us today. He got to see a couple of stunts, which are always fun and he got to see some puppetry, so that was a pretty good mix. The puppetry today was fun, but unfortunately the details are really plot specific so I’m not going to go into them this time. I know, I’m a tease.
The puppeteers got wrapped early, except for Þor and me. Everyone else left around four-thirty. I sent Wayne with Emily to the pool. I went into the puppet shop to practise my Icelandic with Sigga and Tóti. At the end of the day, when we were getting ready to leave, I decided to try to use my Icelandic to ask, “Do you want me to close the window?” What I actually said was, “Will you me fasten this?” We got a good laugh out of that. I’m glad Sigga can explain why it’s funny. If this were really immersion, then she’d be laughing and it would be months before I understood what I had said wrong.
Tags: Iceland, Journal, Puppetry
I was learning Spanish from a native Mexican priest for a while. He was fabulous. I remember when we had the discussion about being careful about saying one was hot and not that one had heat (i.e. were sexually excited). Important things to know that one might not expect to learn from a man of the cloth.
Ha! I suppose it depends on if he was hearing confessions.
When I was learning German, we got a similar caution about ordering hot dogs. A “heise hund” was a dog in heat.