A time i got someones tone wrong was when someone I don't know comes up to me and say hi I would usually say hi then just leave them but they say hi as in they want to get to know me. Sometimes I don't know that they want to talk to me or if they just saying hi that's why I just leave after i say hi back to them. Or sometimes when someone say they are going to do something like they going to kill me I think if they are really going to do it but they actually mean they are going to get back at me when i made someone mad. It's hard to tell what someone means what they say when they use a tone and you get it wrong.