"If I say 'exploration' and you write 'explosion', we are not communicating." --Tibebe
My World Civ prof is awesome. He's Ethiopian, and has a heavy accent. If you pay attention you can understand him, but sometimes it's a little tricky. He's aware of this, and so he stops every now and then to make sure that we correctly heard him on something. This was one of his examples of how we could be like ships passing in the night when it comes to communicating.