Guess everybody has experienced the awkwardness when trying to expressing some ideas, opinions or feelings in English, they do not come out correctly or as accurately as we have expected. Consequently, we might not be able achieve the impact we intended to, say a joke turned into a reprimand that stunned everybody, or a serious warning to your underlings that nobody understands because of the way you articulated made you lose your authority and "face". So let us post such scenarioes we experienced in our everyday life, and see if our collective Huasing Wisdom can help us overcome such awkwardness to make our communication, especially in Engish, more effective.