Friday, June 18, 2004
"Lola"
An interesting thing about Tumbuka, the language spoken in northern Malawi, is that Ls and Rs are often switched around. So, I am now called Lola all the time, instead of Laura... It caught me off guard the first few times I was introduced to someone, but now I am getting used to it. This little characteristic makes a Malawian accent pretty hard to understand sometimes.
