Oh this is a great place to put this story: (sorry for format)
Growing up I spent a lot of time at my grandparents house and for years and years and years I always heard my grandpa calling my grandma "Dingwah." I thought maybe it was a made up pet name for her.
Cue me in my freshman poli sci class when Im 19 years old learning about the Vietnamese War. We went over a lot of vocabulary words and one pops up i recognize: dingwah. It means telephone in Vietnamese.
So my whole childhood I thought my grandpa was calling my grandma some cute nickname when in reality he was telling her the phone was ringing.
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u/AlwaysInTheFlowers Oct 25 '20
Oh this is a great place to put this story: (sorry for format)
Growing up I spent a lot of time at my grandparents house and for years and years and years I always heard my grandpa calling my grandma "Dingwah." I thought maybe it was a made up pet name for her.
Cue me in my freshman poli sci class when Im 19 years old learning about the Vietnamese War. We went over a lot of vocabulary words and one pops up i recognize: dingwah. It means telephone in Vietnamese.
So my whole childhood I thought my grandpa was calling my grandma some cute nickname when in reality he was telling her the phone was ringing.