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Anonymous  +  261058 Wed, 30 Aug 06 06:06 PM
i want a word to say someone who wrong understands me.i say something and he behaves without notice what i said carefully.i want to know what such a behaviours name is.(i maybe made mistakes while asking this question ,if so warn me .and get me aware of my mistakes please)
Francesca  +  261072 Wed, 30 Aug 06 06:40 PM
What do you think about  "absent-minded", "self-adsorbed", "inattentive"?
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Aperisic  +  261092 Wed, 30 Aug 06 07:41 PM

I want a word to say for someone who understands me wrongly. I say something and he behaves without a careful notice on what I said. I want to know a name for such behaviour

(Maybe I have made mistakes while asking this question. If so, warn me and make me aware of my mistakes, please)

You want both misunderstanding and ignorance.

I guess a heedless person would be a fine description and the behaviour is

heedlessness

If it was something important and there was a danger to destroy something important then

carelessness

Generally inattention is a word when a person did not pay attention and the behaviour is

inattentiveness

None of them is very rude.

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Unknownmember  +  265486 Mon, 11 Sep 06 04:08 PM
ok i get it .the word i needed then is "misunderstand" exactly.i also want to ask you if i did mistake while asking question then,and now.
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Aperisic  +  265493 Mon, 11 Sep 06 04:22 PM
OK, I get it. The word that I needed is exactly "misunderstand". I also want to ask you if/whether I made any grammatical mistake in my previous or current post.
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thanks
Logicman  +  267704 Sat, 16 Sep 06 12:05 AM
This is a mixture of ideas about style, punctuation and choice of words.

My suggested changes:

I want a word to say that someone does not understand me.
I say something and he behaves without noticing what I carefully said.
I want to know what such a behaviour's name is.
(I may have made mistakes while asking this question ,if so warn me .and make me aware of my mistakes please.)

If the person did indeed hear what you said, but chose not to respond, you could say:
"I say something, and he ignores me.)

Ignoring somebody is a type of human behaviour, so there would usually be no need
to say that someone behaved as if ignoring someone else.


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Patrick. Relax, it's just an opinion. :)
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