Talking about the IT, big data, computer and data science communities, where teams are always a mix of Chinese, Indian, French (like me), British, American, Russian, German, Brazilian and other people - all speaking a distinct English dialect, with very subtle differences that can lead to confusion, misunderstanding, waste of time, or legal issues.

Sometimes the issue is grammatical, sometimes just vocabulary. I give two examples below where my "English" (as a French native speaker) caused problems. Also, I am wondering how many times such issues are not even noticed, where everybody think they understand everybody while actually they don't, with negative incidence on projects. Am I exaggerating the issue? It looks to me like a small one, but then, maybe we only see the tip of the iceberg and the problem is more pervasive than we think? 

Examples:

• The word see has a different meaning in French and English. If you read a blog that I recently posted, many people thought that I thought that the image in my post was fake, when I did not. They thought that I believed in a conspiracy when I did not. It all boiled down to the word see, which has different interpretations in French and English. It took hours to figure out that this was the cause of the misunderstanding.
• When I created the Data Science Foundation, all my American friends told me it looks like a non-profit, because of the word Foundation. Yet in French, Foundation does not imply non-profit, it has a very different meaning. Some people even told me that I could run in legal / tax issues because of using the word Foundation, although I was very clear about the fact that it is NOT a non-profit, (despite serving purposes typically served by non-profits).

Do you have examples of mis-communications impacting your projects, due to language barriers?