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Communication, learning from goofs, gaffs, and oopsies!

Of course learning to communicate more effectively is serious business, but we can learn a huge amount about communication, linguistics, psycho-linguistics and just how people talk and are understood (or misunderstood) by looking at communication goofs, gaffs and oops'es.

That's the focus of this section. We'll look at real life communication examples, and see what we can learn, and guaranteed, we'll laugh a fair bit.

Cultural and Multi-Cultural Real Life Communication Gaffs

• OOPS - The Nigerian Communications Episode
• Well, There English and There's English
• Oh, those idioms will just kill you. Australia idiomatic communication meets U.S. communication
• Shades of Meanings - Do WHAT with the chambermaids?