Unspoken definitions
„Let’s meet the new neighbors.“
In family A, the full unspoken definition of this phrase is: „Let’s grab some old badmington rackets, walk to the new one’s, and lob the shuttlecock back and forth across their fence until someone wants to quit. Winning is secondary, it’s the fun and get-to-know-each-other that counts.“
In family B it means: „Let’s get out our tomahawks.“
