Showing posts with label Rice Variety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rice Variety. Show all posts

Monday, 18 January 2016

SWAHILI WORD PLAY - Lost in Translation


These days if you are on WhatsApp you would constantly receive pics and clips from everywhere.
Most of the time credits are not given. WhatsApp is not that sort of place. However, let me salute whoever made up these words.
In Swahili there are three different words expressing the process of making and eating rice.
Its not like in English where rice means rice. Cooked, raw, etc, is just rice.
In Swahili you have rice in its farming stage i.e. in a  Paddy-field.