Me: “AnnaMaria won’t like that place.”
AnnaMaria: “No, I will. They have margaritas.”
Me: “Did you know the Spanish word ‘margarita’ means daisy, like the flower? The one with the white petals and yellow center?”
AnnaMaria: “Yes, we have the same word in Greek.”
Me: “Margarita or daisy?”
AnnaMaria: “We call both the drink and flower ‘margarita.’”
Me: “Wait, I thought all words had their root in the Greek. So, how could that be if margarita is Spanish?”
My Wife: “We incorporate words from other languages into ours.”
Me: “Well, then of course every word has their root in the Greek, because you just steal words from other languages and call them Greek!”
AnnaMaria: “I think margarita is actually Greek.”
Me: “You can’t be serious! ‘Margarita’ is not Greek!”
AnnaMaria: “Let’s look it up. It says here that it comes from the Greek word ‘margaritari,’ which is Ancient Greek for ‘pearl.’”
Me: “Wait, are you using a Greek website to look that up, because of course they would say that it’s Greek?!”
AnnaMaria [laughing]: “I’m using Google.”
Me: “You can’t use that either, because Google is Greek! What else have you got?”
Georgios: “It says the same thing on the deep web.”
My Wife: “So, there you go!”
Me: “That doesn’t mean anything. You can’t trust what you read on the internet.”
