Silence isn’t a passive state. It’s an active cultural signal with multiple meanings. Treating it as understanding is one of the quickest ways to lose critical data in a multilingual audit.

Once auditors start treating translation as a variable that must be tested — not trusted blindly — the reliability of cross-border audits increases instantly.

If our communication controls don’t evolve at the same pace, we’ll continue losing findings not because the system is weak —but because our understanding of the system was incomplete.