Thanks for the explanation.
I don't think the lack of a common language was the problem. I think they should have had a common user.
When the committee that designed the FB-111 (the world's first swing-wing plane) designed the cockpit, they didn't invite a pilot. They designed the control to swing the wings so it worked backward from a pilot's point of view. They thought "forward for forward, backward for backward." A pilot thinks, "forward for faster, backward for slower." The result is that the first test pilot nearly turned the first test plane into a smoking hole in the ground.
Typical.
Remember the controls in the alien spacecraft in Independence Day?