we understand each other worse, and it matters less, than any of us suppose.
[Which goes well with this item.]
This item was found by Jim Bisso (Uncle Jazzbeau) and discussed at more length by and with Languagehat.
One of Nunberg’s examples is: The pool is deceptively shallow. Some take this to mean the pool is deeper than it looks, some the opposite — but I wouldn’t use it either way; to me it means that the pool both is and appears shallow, but one who infers from that lone fact that one can safely wade in it would be dangerously mistaken (because it has alligators or treacherous currents).