A thief. Or just shopping?

Kirundi, a wonderful difficult tonal african language. I was in the market a few weeks back and was confused at a situation that happened; thankfully during dinner at our friends house a few nights back I can now understand the depth to the story!

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While in the market I love talking with people, greeting people and all that comes within! As I was walking through, one said "Mama Malaki where are you going" (All this being in Kirundi of course); I replied "I am going to be a thief, would you like to join me"! Immediately all were yelling "No, Mama Malaki... OYA!" (I thought I was saying "I am going shopping, would you like to join me"!) You see the word shopping is Gusuma and the word thief is Umusuma! Being so close together, who would know the difference! I left the market that day thinking.... why was everyone yelling at me saying NO! when I just wanted to go shopping? To think, the whole time I was asking them to go steal with me! Ahh, You got to love the mix ups, and thankfully I will never mistake that word again due to this situation!

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Malaki is 5 months 3 days, loving to gnaw on German bread. Its funny, he takes it by force gripping your hands and not allowing you to take it away from his mouth. Got to love it. All our love...