05/10/12 Being MISINTERPRETED or MISTRANSLATED (whether it involves one or two languages)
...Leads to being Misunderstood and Misrepresented.
Accuracy requires
1- Understanding the speaker,
2- Understanding the subject,
3- Understanding the culture,
4- Understanding the terminology and
5- Understanding the circumstances.
Unhappily, most people today have a "sound bite" mentality and communicate in a "Tweet" fashion, therefore there is little real communication.
