Language Barriers
So here’s the thing about Australians: they totally speak a different language than I do. I mean, it’s all English, so I should be fine, but it’s a totally foreign version of English than the one to which I’m accustomed. A chain of examples:
Exhibit A
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To the people on this side of the planet, everything pictured here is a pumpkin.
To me, these are all squash, and the word pumpkin is only used for the type of gourd from which one would carve a jack’o’lantern.
Exhibit B:
To the people of Australia, this is squash.
To me, it’s lemonade.
Exhibit C:
To the people of Australia, this is lemonade. It’s clear, carbonated, and very sweet (although they do not have this particular brand, so the bottles say “lemonade” as opposed to “limonade”).
To me, this is, as the bottle says, limonade, which I only know about because I learned about it in French class.
