What You Say vs. What You Mean

I understand that Facebook is informal and I don't judge too harshly, but, still...

A family in a nearby town recently had their house blown up by a leaky propane tank.  They had a lot of kids, one teenager died, other members of the family have been in intensive care--it is horrible.  Someone on Facebook forwarded a post calling for donations that said, "This tragedy could not have struck a better family."

Of course we know what she meant, but what she said was, "Oh, goodie!  This awful family deserved a tragedy of this magnitude.  Karma!"  The poster has no idea what she said, and maybe most people reading it have no idea, but that makes me sad.

When I was teaching basic college writing at a private university, a student had written an analysis of a news program that covered The Linda Yalem Run, a memorial run in honor of a woman raped and killed on a bike path.  Several women had been raped, but only Linda Yalem had also been killed.  My student wrote, "Sadly, Linda was the only one to have been killed."  So... the others were missing out?  It's too bad all of them weren't killed?

Lesson: be aware of what you are actually saying.  Words have meanings.  Having to overlook what you say because it's not what you mean is confusing and tiresome.

Do you have an example of this kind of mush?  Please comment with it here and we can all shake our heads sadly.