Similarly, children with language disorder have difficulty following playground rules, and often misinterpret jokes from peers as other children 'making fun'.
Nomani told Mediate that she was being sarcastic, and it appears that Trump misinterpreted her joke as the truth.
Classic Oscar move: an easy to misinterpret inside joke about a sensitive political and ethnic issue.
I was in northeast Portland over the weekend and decided to stop in at a brewery that Yelp users said not only had good beer but "it's a nonprofit too!" I assumed they just misinterpreted the brewpub's joke about its inadequate revenue.
Still, whoever runs Vox's Twitter account showed up and used its most grown-up internet voice to demand that the post be taken down, an understandable reaction given how quickly jokes can be misinterpreted and become hoaxes.
Even innocent jokes can be misinterpreted.
Cannavaro's Juve team-mate Lilian Thuram, who also played alongside him at Parma, said the film had been made by the players as a joke but would be misinterpreted by viewers.
At minimum, the offending expression is collected in a catalogue of all the other unintentional slights, politically incorrect jokes, drunken confessions and misinterpreted statements that have offended somebody, somewhere.
After months of making statements Trump later explains away as jokes or as comments misinterpreted by the media, it almost doesn't matter whether he is sinister or thoughtless.
Lux declared this grainy photo as irrefutable evidence of advanced Martian intelligence; a tense moment transpired between us when I misinterpreted his fervent assertions as a clever joke.
