ANCIENT STORIES

• How is the language in this text similar to and/or different from the language you use in everyday conversation?
  
  MY RESPONSE: It's different in the way that we don't say "shall" or words that were used back then in the olden days.
• Because it began as an oral story, "Earth on Turtle's Back" can be found in multiple text versions.  How important is it for a story to be repeated word for word?  Is meaning embellished, distorted, lost, or enhanced in the retelling?
  
  MY RESPONSE : I don't understand the question.
• How is the language in this text similar to and/or different from the language you use in everyday conversation?
  
  
  MY RESPONSE : It's different , because teenagers are so illiterate and use so much slang words so words used in this text are far from different from our vocabulary.
  
  P.S : I tried finding a 1492 myth but gave up when I couldn't relate them to this one.