Westerners studying Chinese based on the Wade-Giles system find the syllabic subdivisions into monosyllables a distortion of word flow that is only confounded by the numerous intact accents.
On June 7, Pillay's spokesperson complained of the news agency's "blatant distortion of her words".
The lexicon of the game, which involves the casual distortion of such words as love and hate, will be as inflammatory as ever.
Who could Rabbi Michael Schudrich, a smart and feisty New Yorker, have been talking about when he protested against the "grotesque distortion" of his words for political gain in the UK?
The High Commissioner would like to stress that she made no such statement, and is disturbed by this blatant distortion of her words".
The common name "nursehound" came from an old belief by English fishermen that this shark attends to its smaller relatives, while the name "huss" may have come from a distortion of the word "nurse" over time.
Some theologians call the novels a dangerous distortion of Scripture.
Some of these are the employment of metaphor, simile, folk etymology, distortion of sounds in words, generalization, specialization, clipping, the use of acronyms, elevation and degeneration, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, borrowings from foreign languages, and the play of euphemism against taboo.
Mr. Summers told The Washington Post in an e-mail on Friday that "the hearsay attributed to me" in the Suskind book "is a combination of fiction, distortion, and words taken out of context".
Summers, who has never said publicly whether he actually read the book, issued a statement saying that the "the hearsay attributed to me is a combination of fiction, distortion and words taken out of context".
