A little over three years ago I was visiting my, then fiance's, family in England. We were traveling to a family wedding and to pass time on the drive we played the game 20 questions. It was my turn and I decided that my word would be 'eggplant'. So the questions began, they had it narrowed down to the fact that it was a vegetable and that it was purple but still no one seemed to be able to guess it. After a while of being confused as why it was stumping everyone my mother-in-law asked, 'is it an eggplant?'. Exasperated I said yes, that is when she informed me that in this country it is called an aubergine. They had answered aubergine several times but seeing as how I had no idea what that was I didn't realize that they had answered correctly. Funny how we can speak the same language and yet still sometimes fail to understand each other.
