A quick story from the other night.. I went to a neighborhood gathering with the Khannas. It was really nice, I met some of the women who live around us and we played a bingo type of game and had food. While I was there I was talking to one woman who lives right across the road, we were talking in English and I thought we were communicating well, but then I asked her how many children she has and completely serious without hesitation she said 35 - I couldn't help but laugh because we clearly weren't talking about the same thing. I tried explaining my question and she insisted, she said yes yes youngest to oldest 35. Later on she brought over her daughter who told me that she was an only child but there are 35 people living in their house (more of a multiple family home, here it is the norm for extended families to live together). Anyways, it made me wonder how many times since I've been here I've had a conversations with someone and we're talking about two different things, probably more than I think.
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