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In "Gorilla Warfare," Robert Wright has misconstrued what gorillas can teach us.
Leah M. Bryant told the story the same way in the Sept. 1997 issue of Leading Edge , the house organ of the Air Force Materiel Command--then Murphy's Law was completely misconstrued.
Cross-talk, after all, depends on some idea of “the real meaning” to achieve its contradictory effect: it is just that sometimes the meaning gets lost or misconstrued.
The pilot had misconstrued the phrase level at 6,000 imperatively, as an instruction for himself, meaning [Descend to and remain] level at 6,000, rather than understanding it declaratively, as it had been intended, as an assertion about his traffic, meaning [The traffic is] level at 6,000.
According to Attorney General Janet Reno, the NSC staffers probably misconstrued the agents' instructions to treat the matter delicately.