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omeganian
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)

I remember a short story about this young man who visits an old man and his young female ward. The old man had raised the girl in isolation, teaching her perfect English. He, however, altered his ward's knowledge of words teaching her that the word 'sugar' meant salt, and a 'spoon' was in fact a fork.
The man asks for a white coffee with sugar, and she brings him a black tea with salt added. He falls in love with her, is horrified by her treatment, and asks her to go away with him. She doesn't understand him, as all of his words mean something different to her.