When I was first in the Ituri Forest, I Noticed there were many kinds of plantains grown in the gardens there They varied by size and shape. One version seemed to have numerous black spots on the outside. When asking what it was called, I found its name was the same as the variety without the black spots. Eventually, someone realized that I was asking the wrong question, and gave me the explanation I was unknowingly looking for: "The ones with the black spots were the ones at a certain ripening stage during a storm in which rocks made of water in the form of what you call ice cream, sort of"
That is how you say "hail damage" in a tropical country in a a shared language with limited vocabulary in that shared language for frozen things.
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That is how you say "hail damage" in a tropical country in a a shared language with limited vocabulary in that shared language for frozen things.
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