Going to the city
As you know, I used to live in a place we called Clove Island, and now I live on Volcano island. The languages aren't the same, but they're very similar. I could go on for quite a bit about the specifics of the differences, in accent, vocabulary, verb conjugations, etc, but chances are I'd bore you, so we'll skip over that. In summary for the paragraph I started to write and deleted multiple times: islanders can often understand each other, but it's not always easy. But the funny thing about understanding another person is that we sometimes think we understood when we really didn't. In English, we assume certain understandings based on what we know of someone's context. Take the following sentence, for example: "I went to buy tomatoes, but my buggy broke and I spent a long time fixing it." If the person is Amish, we understand that they were driving their horse and buggy somewhere to buy tomatoes, the buggy broke, and in order to complete their ...