isn't it funny, how we can't communicate here on a computer about middle markers, yet expect people of different nations to communicate in the cockpit?
If everyone stuck to ICAO terminology, it wouldn't be such an issue.
It's often laziness which causes the failure of understanding in r/t communication. Someone hears the term "Middle Marker" and applies it to the painted markings on a runway surface, because it sounds like it might make sense, with the result that some people think he landed in the trees a few miles short of the threshold.
Flying around India, you notice the use of callsigns is optional. Entire conversations with no use of callsign after the initial call, which is sheer laziness. Terminology is applied haphazardly in R/T or not used at all.
Every now and then this laziness and/or confusion of terminology leads to a disaster. (No, not referring to this case)