“SPEAK SLOWLY AND PRECISELY! I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU!”

“If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.”

“If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.”

“I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.''My accent?''It is quite silly.''So you can't understand me?''Not a word.''Then how did you understand that?''I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?''That's right.''You understood that, though.''Not at all.'The American glowered.”

“i can't understand her"well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”

“It's the same thing,' I told her.'What is?''Being afraid and being alive.''No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.”