(photo via Guinea Pig by Guinea Dad)
My friend Erika told Yann,
“You will be our guinea pig.”
Yann, with a perplexed look on his face, quipped,
“So, what’s this about a Winnie Pig?”
Erika and I could not hold back our laughter, thinking he was teasing.
Then realized he was serious.
We explained Winnie Pig, which is a cochon d’Inde in French.
Yann curiously asked if Winnipeg was the same as Winnie Pig.
He was seriously asking.
…..
I make thousands of errors in French daily and probably in my last breath I will utter something ridiculously misconstrued. I am not making fun of Yann’s French; his grammar is flawless. But these moments are worth remembering.
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