Let’s say that an outsider, or better yet an alien for the sake of an argument, with very basic and only literal knowledge of the English language was to observe a classroom setting. If he was to overhear a conversation in which a child utters “you’re really fat” to a peer, his take and meaning would most certainly take a different meaning than that of the child which the statement was aimed towards. To our alien, who is completely devoid of social context, hearing this statement would indicate that the child was simply making an observation that his desk partner (if we were to take a weight distribution of the population) was on the heavier side of the norm. However, if we were to overlay this statement with its socio-cultural context, we