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Cross purposes
CROSS PURPOSES

Definition: If two people are at cross purposes, they do not understand each other because they are talking about or aiming at different things, without realizing it.
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* All seven elements would be in.


1. Their speeches or actions take place at different times.

2. Both persons make wrong assumptions (connect to #3).

3. No questions are asked and no enquiries are made during the period.

4. No constraints in the situation. That is, no issues of time, language, state or condition, location or surroundings, etc.

5. Lack of understanding is realized late, ... not too late. That is, loss in the situation is or can be coped with (connect to #7).

6. There is a resemblance between what is said or done by one person and what the other person expected the other, to say or do.

7. The loss or losses that might or could arise from the situation can be recouped or recovered.
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