An overturned canoe here, a misinterpreted word there and the Corps of Discovery's upcoming 200th anniversary would be marked by hobbyists waving metal detectors along the banks of the Missouri River, searching for trace evidence of the lost company.
There's some awful statistic about only 20percentnt of Americans being able to understand irony.' It is, I interrupt, a mammothly misinterpreted word: did he have a definition of what he thought of as irony?
An opening clarifying phrase explains the odd-sounding title: A "mondegreen" is defined as "a misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from mishearing".
Unfortunately, speech commands are sometimes misinterpreted when words overstep lexical boundaries and word sequences do not fit the preset grammars.
Perhaps they had misinterpreted his words, inferring that he was telling Andrews herself to pipe down.
John McCain said he'd withdraw his support unless Mourdock apologized, then withdrew the withdrawal when Mourdock said despicable media minds had misinterpreted his words.
The defence maintained that the witnesses who said Bamber disliked his family were lying or had misinterpreted his words.
During interviews with CNN and elsewhere, Carson also tried to explain his earlier comment that Syrians are "rabid dogs," saying the media misinterpreted his words.
Instead, you should couch your judgment of their behavior in terms of I-messages -- how you felt hurt, how you reacted, how you misinterpreted their words, etc.
