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We had a situation at work where we were contracting some work out to a German company. We had them fly over here, but their translator was stuck en-route so we had 8 engineers sitting in a room who couldn't communicate with each other. We started using hand signals & "figuring it out"...I held up my index finger (meaning "1")...apparently in Germany you start counting with a thumb, so they wrote down "2". That was a $400k issue. 
