We can take one simple nice compliment, and make it out to be like someone is making fun of us. Misunderstandings take place everyday, and there will never be a way to solve all of them. We miss the point of what people are trying to tell us. I feel this is a major limitation in communication Often people in the world mistake words to mean something other than they really mean. Many people often misunderstand what people are trying to say because of the speaker's tone of voice.
Someone can take a word and make the meaning totally different.
This is an example of what we call slang . This would be very complicated to someone foreign to our country. Pretend you are from a foreign country and decide to be an exchange student in the United States, could you imagine learning all of the different spellings and meanings to all of the words that are pronounced exactly the same. I guess this would be the same if the situation were reversed, such as an American going to a foreign country. Every language is a hard language to learn.