YOU are not on your home turf, and you'd better know the local situation before you go sashaying in ... It's not just the language that will be different. The customs, the food, the body language, the politics—everything is going to be different. What's worse, is that it won't be totally alien, like walking into the Forbidden City. No, things will be just familiar enough to get you caught up in a stimulus-response situation where your natural response to the stimulus will be all wrong...
— Cyberpunk 2020: Solo of Fortune 2
Kastumoto: Warriors in your country do not kill?
Algren: They don't cut the heads off defeated kneeling men!
Katsumoto: [Death Glare] General Hasegawa asked me to help him end his life. A samurai cannot bear the shame of defeat. I was honored to cut off his head. Many of our customs seem strange to you, and the same is true of yours. For instance, not to introduce yourself is considered extremely rude, even among enemies.
Algren: They don't cut the heads off defeated kneeling men!
Katsumoto: [Death Glare] General Hasegawa asked me to help him end his life. A samurai cannot bear the shame of defeat. I was honored to cut off his head. Many of our customs seem strange to you, and the same is true of yours. For instance, not to introduce yourself is considered extremely rude, even among enemies.
Afgani: The American soldiers, they call us "motherfuckers," but in our culture it is considered very bad to fuck your own mother.
General McMahon: Oh, ours too! Ours too!
General McMahon: Oh, ours too! Ours too!
I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.
TG: but seriously what is the real plan here
TG: that has to do with not fucking around
GC: TH3R3 1S NO PL4N TH4T DO3S NOT 1NVOLV3 FUCK1NG 4ROUND
GC: BUT W3 W1LL M4K3 SUR3 4LL OF OUR FUCK1NG W1LL B3 4PPL13D 1N 4 CONSTRUCT1V3 D1R3CT1ON
TG: ok could you try to be somehow even less subtle when you hit on me thanks
GC: WH4T
GC: WH4T D1D 1 S4Y?
TG: man
TG: nevermind
GC: YOU W1LL H4V3 TO FORG1V3 M3 D4V3, 1 TH1NK SOM3T1M3S TH3 M34N1NG OF WORDS 1S LOST THROUGH OUR CULTUR4L D1FF3R3NC3S
TG: no shit
TG: im going to infer that your species reproduces by having sex with a grub in a bucket or something
TG: am i close
GC: D4V3
GC: TH4T 1S 4BSOLUT3LY TH3 F1LTH13ST TH1NG 1 H4V3 3V3R H34RD 4NYON3 S4Y >:\
TG: that has to do with not fucking around
GC: TH3R3 1S NO PL4N TH4T DO3S NOT 1NVOLV3 FUCK1NG 4ROUND
GC: BUT W3 W1LL M4K3 SUR3 4LL OF OUR FUCK1NG W1LL B3 4PPL13D 1N 4 CONSTRUCT1V3 D1R3CT1ON
TG: ok could you try to be somehow even less subtle when you hit on me thanks
GC: WH4T
GC: WH4T D1D 1 S4Y?
TG: man
TG: nevermind
GC: YOU W1LL H4V3 TO FORG1V3 M3 D4V3, 1 TH1NK SOM3T1M3S TH3 M34N1NG OF WORDS 1S LOST THROUGH OUR CULTUR4L D1FF3R3NC3S
TG: no shit
TG: im going to infer that your species reproduces by having sex with a grub in a bucket or something
TG: am i close
GC: D4V3
GC: TH4T 1S 4BSOLUT3LY TH3 F1LTH13ST TH1NG 1 H4V3 3V3R H34RD 4NYON3 S4Y >:\
Willow: When I went to say hi, Molly had this look like she wasn't sure if she was glad to see me. Then she asked if I had a fun flight, and I said "yes," but she just looked confused.
Willow's mom: Did you say yes, or did you just raise your eyebrows?
Willow: Hmm. I just raised my eyebrows.
Willow's mom: Not everyone speaks with their faces like we Yup'iks do. Molly probably didn't understand you were saying "yes" by raising your eyebrows.
Willow: Oh. I'll try to remember to use my words too. Tomorrow will be much better.
Willow's mom: Did you say yes, or did you just raise your eyebrows?
Willow: Hmm. I just raised my eyebrows.
Willow's mom: Not everyone speaks with their faces like we Yup'iks do. Molly probably didn't understand you were saying "yes" by raising your eyebrows.
Willow: Oh. I'll try to remember to use my words too. Tomorrow will be much better.
—Molly of Denali, "The Story of the Story Knife"
