""We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?...""

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Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like they say, the past is a foreign country - but I think this is intensified for children whose parents also grew up in a geographically foreign country.

— Elif Batuman