How does semantic gap effect process of communication?

Semantic gap alters the context as well as the purpose of the message by allowing different interpretations of the same Word or statement.Consider, for example, an American person , who after his meal at a rural Indian restaurant asks for a cheque, the hotel owner may be quite startled as in India the term bill is commonly used to mean payment slip.One unique feature of semantic gap is that is a chance phenomenon , not a permanent one.This means that the intuition of sender and the receiver and the circumstances or the context of communication, may override the impact of semantic gap.For example, if the hotel owner , after being startled, gives him a 'bill' saying, pay the bill then the American would easily understand that it means money and the communication would be successful, even though both mean 'bill' in a different sense-the Indian means the payment slip and the American thinks of it as money.