clifffaith
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From time to time I've mentioned our Italian friends. I do a fair amount of smiling and nodding and not understanding completely when she tells a story, and vice versa. He is better at pronunciation because he was in the working world here for 30 years. But neither of them "hear" us if they are distracted or if we change the subject abruptly (like apropos of nothing I blurt out "oh, we are now at the top of the waitlist at Carlsbad" -- no comment, no indication either of them heard me at the card table). So he got selected to be on a jury yesterday, in spite of protesting that he wouldn't be able to understand well enough to render a verdict. He was told "if you don't understand, ask us to repeat or explain it". Huh? In the middle of the trial he's supposed to say excuse me, I don't understand?! Sounds like basis for a retrial to me.