At last I was able to explain that I hadn't understood the implications of my statement in their language, that I was transliterating and certain words had different meanings and so on and so on
CommunicationUnderstandingLanguageMisunderstandingTranslation
Language is not the only source of misunderstanding.
He asked me quietly as we walked the next day, 'What have you done to the young soldier? Put the fear of god into him' I had meant to be funny. Odd, how a man …
How is it possible that stupidity should end our lives when our enemies' cleverest stratagems had not
I realized that to [him], at least, cowardice was not something to be loathed, it was something to be cast out, to be exorcised, to be killed
Aesopian language was used by all of us. And of course, using this language meant having readers who understood it.
:Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!