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Over the next few months in PLoS Biology , we plan to explore the more pervasive of these misunderstandings, in an effort to expose the real challenges that need to be overcome and to identify some possible solutions.
By serving as a readily available resource for organization employees, they helped clear up misunderstandings and provided guidance on topics that were not specifically addressed in written guidance.
As I show in my book Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes (University of Chicago Press, 1994), these examples are representative of a wide range of accidents and near misses in which language misunderstandings or omissions have played a contributing and sometimes central role.
Occasionally--and particularly for those not accustomed to the dialect--their pronunciation of certain words can lead to embarrassing misunderstandings, as the following tale from my youth may illustrate:
Recently I found in one of those files in which for many years I have been systematically losing things a magazine clipping from many years ago which points out that the formal language of a century and more past can lead to misunderstandings today.