Day 79: Who Said the Grandkids Eat Badly?

Dialogue

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   A

   Doña Ofelia, ¿me regala un minuto? Dice mi cuñada que usted anda contando que los niños están desnutridos.

   Doña Ofelia, could you spare me a minute? My sister-in-law says you've been going around telling people the children are malnourished.

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2. 2
   B

   No lo niego, mija: sí lo dije, y lo sostengo. Esos niños están en los puros huesos.

   I don't deny it, honey: I did say it, and I stand by it. Those children are nothing but skin and bone.

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3. 3
   A

   Le agradezco la franqueza. Pero vengo oyendo ese argüende desde Navidad, y aquí un chisme llega a Monterrey antes que el camión.

   I appreciate your frankness. But I've been hearing this talk since Christmas, and around here gossip gets to Monterrey before the bus does.

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4. 4
   B

   ¿Chisme? Sería chisme si fuera mentira. El domingo pasado el más chiquito se comió cinco tortillas de harina y todavía pidió pan de pulque.

   Gossip? It would be gossip if it weren't true. Last Sunday the littlest one ate five flour tortillas and still asked for pulque bread.

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5. 5
   A

   Porque aquí come como en fiesta. En la casa hay sopa, guisado y frijoles diario, y verdura aunque sea a fuerzas.

   Because here he eats like it's a party. At home there's soup, a main dish and beans every day, and vegetables, even if it's under protest.

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6. 6
   B

   Pues alguien miente, y no soy yo. Fue tu marido quien lo dijo, aquí mismo: que en tu casa se cena puro cereal.

   Well, someone's lying, and it isn't me. It was your husband who said it, right here: that at your house dinner is nothing but cereal.

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   A

   ¿Mi marido? ¡Pero si es él quien hace la cena entre semana! El cereal con leche es su especialidad.

   My husband? But he's the one who makes dinner during the week! Cereal and milk is his specialty.

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   B

   ¿Cómo que él? ¡Ay, este muchacho! Anda quejándose de lo que él mismo les sirve, y yo, de mensa, repitiéndolo.

   What do you mean, him? Oh, that boy! He goes around complaining about what he serves them himself, and me, like a fool, repeating it.

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   A

   Y viene a comer aquí cada tercer día, ¿verdad? Con razón llega a la casa sin hambre.

   And he comes here to eat every other day, doesn't he? No wonder he gets home with no appetite.

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    B

    Tres veces por semana, con todo y postre. Pero hoy se me compone: hace él la carne asada y desmiente su mitote en la mesa.

    Three times a week, dessert and all. But today he mends his ways: he's doing the carne asada, and at the table he'll take back his own gossip.

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    A

    Me parece justo. Y de postre, para que aprenda, a él le servimos un platote de cereal.

    Sounds fair to me. And for dessert, so he learns, we'll serve him a big bowl of cereal.

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