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Friday, November 5, 2010

Peace Like a River

In the local language pis means dirty.  But not just dirty.  I looked it up on the online translation dictionary and these are the synonyms: filthy, vile, unclean, piggish, abominable, obscene, nasty, obnoxious.

You get the point.  The tricky thing is that pis is pronounced just like the english word peace!

The synonyms for peace are accord, friendship, love, neutrality, order, neutrality.

Peace vs pis.  They sound the exact same, but mean something so very different.

The rest of us have sorted this out, but sweet Lucy cannot figure out why on earth during our prayer times we are asking the Lord for pis!  Who wants that?!

1 comment:

Valarie said...

HILARIOUS! All I can do is laugh at that!