I'd like to use this opportunity to ask a question of the HN community. I remember someone (philosopher perhaps, scandinavian I think) who had a paper / rant

I'd like to use this opportunity to ask a question of the HN community. I remember someone (philosopher perhaps, scandinavian I think) who had a paper / rant on the utter impossibility of understanding one another. From memory it was in a form of a list, with one of the items being something like "If something can be misunderstood, it will be"