Misinterpreted Statements

Encouraged

I can happen so easily, and can say a lot about where your mind is at.

To give an example of my own, I recently asked a question to this fella who is working in a hospital abroad and who just secured a job back home to which he'll be started in 6 months. He had been talking about the Irish friends he was leaving with out there, so I asked him "do they know you're leaving?"

But when I said 'they', he interpreted 'they' as the staff at the hospital, and not the friends! He then went on to explain how his boss out there was okay with him having the interview to go back home. So it probably sounded like I was acting a bit nosy or maybe like as if I were a parent. He answered, but probably reluctantly. I felt like interrupting and saying "know I didn't mean that"!

Can you think of a time someone misinterpreted your question, or a time you misinterpreted someone else's? There's a good example here of a misinterpreted statement in this video from 0:34-0:45, and for the sake of politeness he lets it go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcdPakoytg

Please don't get discuss or distracted by the video if you watch any further

PARlance

I may have misinterpreted the point of this thread.

Encouraged

PARlance wrote: »

I may have misinterpreted the point of this thread.

Well maybe you'd prefer a "post what you last ate" thread.

Sky King

i remember talking to the production manager in work one time about a skeleton crew. He thought I meant a minimal crew to operate the machines. Imagine his surprise when he found out I was in fact talking about employing a factory full of spooky skeletons!

Ficheall

Encouraged wrote: »

There's a good example here of a misinterpreted statement in this video from 0:34-0:45

That is only a "good" example compared to the example you gave about your hospital friend.

Ah....The stuff of secondary school males, among innuendo and rumour. ...

Encouraged

Ficheall wrote: »

That is only a "good" example compared to the example you gave about your hospital friend.

What was so bad about it? You mean to say it took me too long to explain?

Let's hear an example of yours so?

Encouraged

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah....The stuff of secondary school males, among innuendo and rumour. ...

Come again?

Encouraged

Sky King wrote: »

i remember talking to the production manager in work one time about a skeleton crew. He thought I meant a minimal crew to operate the machines. Imagine his surprise when he found out I was in fact talking about employing a factory full of spooky skeletons!

Ah for God's sake, can we be serious?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Encouraged wrote: »

Ah for God's sake, can we be serious?

God doesn't mind. He can have a good sense of humour at times.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Encouraged wrote: »

Come again?

Epic Eir Epic

PARlance wrote: »

I may have misinterpreted the point of this thread.

You're not alone!

Brayden Bumpy Bellows

Brayden Bumpy Bellows wrote: »

OP, go look for a movie called "Carry On Doctor" featuring this gent.

Oh, and try not to misinterpret it.

Good lad.

Sac O Spuds

I'm having my breakfast Kate.

Epic Eir Epic

Sac O Spuds wrote: »

I'm having my breakfast Kate.

No way, was that him?

Your Face

There was a fella work once.
He asked me to pass the salt, so I punched him in the face.

el Fenomeno

There was the whole George Hook uproar where - despite whether you like George or not - he made a perfectly valid and reasonable point about not putting yourself in potentially dangerous situations to begin with.

But people wanted to be offended, so offended they were.

earlier still, a certain FG Taoiseach Garret FItzgerald stated Charles Haughey has a "flawed pedigree".

Cue an outcry.

Garret tries to feverishly explain how this "flawed pedigree" comment was misinterpreted, but digs himself into a deeper hole.

Epic Eir Epic

el Fenomeno wrote: »

There was the whole George Hook uproar where - despite whether you like George or not - he made a perfectly valid and reasonable point about not putting yourself in potentially dangerous situations to begin with.

But people wanted to be offended, so offended they were.

He was a bit clumsy with his wording though. He used the word "blame".

But if he made the same point in the right way, it would have just been ignored.

Leo Fatkar

you see it a lot really