LINKETH: Prithee and forsooth, methinks this poste from Asymmetrical Information doth pointeth outeth a remarkably amusingeth beliefeth that those of us who resideth in the stateth of Northeth Carolina mighteth haveth an easiereth timeth understandingeth Shakespeareth. But perhapseth this be apllicableth onlyeth to those who were born here-eth. Eth. Eth.
UPDATE: I thought I should also add one of my favorite language-related misunderstandings: in the grad seminar I took on Medieval art theory, we read an article which said that there was an African language which made a linguistic differentiation between their words for 'matte black' and 'shiny black,' and that this was a sign of how they were more culturally sensitive to the possibilities of light than we were. I tried to point out that we do, in fact, have words which make that distinction ("matte" and "shiny"), but this was apparently different for reasons that remain unclear to me.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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