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By LovePopcorn

Word Play!

Babysat Grandson M today.
He's wearing a shirt with two curly haired Llamas on it.
Llama is a Peruvian word for these useful pack animals.

The quotation is in Spanish:
"¿Cómo te llamas?" means "What is your name?"

However, it literally translates to "How do you CALL yourself?"
This is the use of the reflexive verb "llamarse", or "to call oneself".
So literally, this means "How do you call yourself?"

However,…
In this instance, are we asking:
"How do you Llama (the animal)?"

sigh.
He's making a silly face AND moving (AGAIN) as I blip him.
Oh, LOOK! I just noticed by the thumbnail print that I was also babysitting him last year, where he is playing with the Duplo Blocks that originally were his Mum's!

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