An international school teacher asks: “What’s your own honest opinion on food scarcity in other countries?”

An African student responds: What’s ‘food’?

A Western European student: What’s ‘scarcity’?

An Eastern European student: What’s ‘honest’?

A Chinese student: What’s ‘opinion’?

A Russian student: What’s ‘your’?

An American student: What’s ‘other countries’?