Leading To Gossip

I wonder, what if what we know isn't really what we believe it is? Ok, let me rephrase that. What if, we could just go back and listen to the original story? For example, cinderella. It would be really different even if you read the one that the Brothers Grimm published. For a long time, it was passed down orally and I'm sure that it was added some details to make it more interesting. “ The men who did it, who pored over the greek and hebrew texts, comparing the accuracy and felicity of previous translations, argued with each other the finest details of chapter and verse, were many of them obscure at the time and are generally forgotten now, a gaggle of fifty or so black-gowned divies whose names are almost unknown but wose words continue to resonate with us. They have a ghost presence in our lives, invisable but constantly heard, enriching the language wit the ‘civility, learning and eloquence’ of their translation, but nowadays only whispering the sentence into our ears.”

I take this thext out of context, not literally. Basically I think that this means that we are all translators, somehow when we hear something and pass it over, we change some detials or simply rephrase it to make it our own. This could be our modern-day gossip; we hear it and pass it on until it changes so much that it eventually morphs into a rumor. True, it's tough to rephrase something without changing its meaning without sounding like a robot (ex: today in class with the dinosour story) but at sometime it becomes untrue. This has happened all the time since we developped a language right? So, is everything as true as we believe? I mean if this is a fact from a bible, our base,what do we believe? Leading me back to my question; What if what we know isn't really what we believe it is?