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Perhaps lost in translation?
(There was an error with the previous challenge, many apologies) As writers, it is inevitable that someone would misinterpret or even disregard something based on what you write. Perhaps they'll even think you're someone completely different. In any form, write about something your worried people will misunderstand, have already misunderstood, or misinterpret about your writings. Perhaps even write about something people assume about you based on your writings

Pronunciation, true story

Names of states.an countries are pronounced differently in different languages. Two acquaintances of mine went a few years ago to Walmart, and when buying whatever, were discussing their next assignment, which was in Niger, near Nigeria.

The problem was, that in their language, the Slovenian, Niger sounds 100% like the most "ufff not to touch word", even if rapper use it instead of commas. Nigeria similar. So they paid, went out, and an impromptu BLM crowd waited, prepared to crucify them as racists; they were listening to them on the sly. Police preventively arrested them as possible white supremacist.

It took an hour, Google searches in some program that reproduced Slovenian representation, pronunciation and even a call to Cleveland university professor of Slovenian, to get them out of the mess. They were sure to be beaten do death or sued anyway and after that rushed to Niger immediately.

Where nobody cared how they said Niger, as long as they have done their job....

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