Sleep and Underwear

The other day after dinner, my host sister had a difficult time asking us if we wanted to go to sleep. Having endured a long day, Amber and I had turned off the part of our brains that listen to other languages, so we did not recognize the question “Is tram a tgnm?” After an overly drawn-out explanation, we understood what she meant, so she threw us a bone, “n Mirikan?” (How do you say it in America?). “That’s easy. We say sleep” we retorted, to which our sister began rolling on the floor with laughter repeating the word “Sleep, sleep!”. Once she was semi-composed again, she pointer to her hip indicating that “sleep” in Tashlhite means “underwear”. Again she through us a bone and asked “How do you say sleep in America” to which we replied “Underwear”. The American “R“ is difficult for Moroccans to pronouns, so our sister said “Shukran, Undewayw Ifulki. Undewayw ifulki byzzzaf.”, which means “Thank you, Underwear is pretty. Underwear is very pretty.” This had us rolling too. I can only hope she remembers to pull that word out occasionally with the next volunteer that comes this way.