I'm reminded of a scene from the Inheritance series of books that I read when I was younger. The main character, Eragon, was telling his mentor how he blessed an orphan baby with the magic words "Atra gülia un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waíse skölir frá rauthr".

His mentor's response was "Wait what? Are you sure you said skölir, and not sköliro?"

Turns out while he had meant to say "May luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune", he instead said "May luck and happiness follow you and may you be a shield from misfortune". Because of this, the girl grew up prescient, supernaturally aware of when other people were in danger or about to be harmed, and compelled to do anything in her power to protect them from it.

I'm pretty sure I've seen problems that are almost as bad in some of the codebases that I've worked with.