This word has its origin in the Latin "Tergiversare" which means "to modify the meaning" , which indicates that to distort is to change the meaning of something, it can be from an address or from a fact, in order to cause an interpretation wrong. For example "singer X, accused a journalist for having misrepresented his words during the interview conducted yesterday, in order to cause discomfort among his fans." "The opposition group seeks to misrepresent the facts to diminish the popularity of the government . "
The people who are responsible for broadcasting some news, writing it or disseminating it must bear in mind that their intention is not other than to inform, since if you alter the information even a little, you are already committing misrepresentation. On the other hand, in the religious aspect, exactly in interpretive theology we speak of oral misrepresentation of a religious nature, and it consists in when a person announces a message as if it were God.
The word distort has as synonyms: distort, alter, manipulate. Among some examples we have: a young man is driving his father's car and crashes him because he is sending text messages with the phone, when the father arrives, the son tells him that he crashed because a dog crossed him and did not give him the opportunity to stop In this example, it is possible to show that the boy begins by telling the truth of the facts, but when he tells why they happened, it is when he misrepresents the information and thus escape punishment. In conclusion, the term distort is similar to changing, deforming a thing in order to cause a different result than the actual events will originate.
