One story that my mother and grandmother love to tell is an incident when I was a toddler. By that time, I had learned how to count in English and was absorbing a bit of Ilocano (a Filipino dialect) by osmosis.
It goes like this:
"Mano ti sakam, anak ko?" How many are your feet, my child?
"Tal-lo!" Three!
Well, "tal-lo" sounds more like "two" than "dua" does.
And so I thought that question would be a good name for this site, which would chronicle my travels. You know,... feet... travel...
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