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Ill make sure that everybody understands what youre saying. did you say he said hes going to leave the mailing area where hes at? >> yes. >> everyone understood what she was saying. everyone understands the mailing area. >> i mean, especially nowadays when we talk about hip hop, most people under a certain age, and im at it, im close to 50, listen to black people. talking every day. its called a great deal of mainstream american music. shes quite comprehensible. its just that people dont want to...

People i know thinking shes making a grammatical mistake. if a martian came down and the martian happened to be in south-central rather than in grand rapids, the martian would have as hard a time figuring out how this dialect worked as any other. she said in the clip that i had told you. many people are thinking, why is she using that? thats black english. my cousins did that when i was little. its the narrative pluperfect. linguists talk about it. i think a lot of us will -- >> thats it. willfu...

People i know thinking shes making a grammatical mistake. if a martian came down and the martian happened to be in south-central rather than in grand rapids, the martian would have as hard a time figuring out how this dialect worked as any other. she said in the clip that i had told you. many people are thinking, why is she using that? thats black english. my cousins did that when i was little. its the narrative pluperfect. linguists talk about it. i think a lot of us will -- >> thats it. willfu...

Grass, until you heard the "get off," until the phone disconnected. how long did that take? >> i dont know, sir. i was not timing it. >> well, in fact, i take it that you were in your house trying to fix up your hair. >> trust me. trust me, i had stopped. >> yesterday, didnt you say that when this conversation was taking place you were fixing your hair? >> yes. as trayvon was waiting for the rain to slow down from the mailing area. thats what i said. >> at what point then, if any, in this conver...

He was at mails plaing place, t mailing area. >> did he tell you then as he left the store that it started to rain? >> yes. >> and that he ran to the -- or walked quickly to the mail area? >> shortcut. >> pardon me? >> a shortcut to the mailing area. >> a shortcut from where to where? do you have any idea? >> no. >> but he told you that he was going to run over to the mail area? >> yes. >> do you know if that was the mail area that was in the complex where he was staying, or was that, perhaps, i...

Talking, telling me to check the television for the all-star game, did it start. >> but he had to go about a mile to get from the store to what you believe is the mail place. was there any conversation about where he was going or why it would take him so long to get there? >> he was talking around. >> in any event, what you believe is after he left the store, he went right over to the mail place in the -- >> yeah, the rain had caught him. >> im sorry? >> the rain had caught him -- he got caught ...

He said he started walking home? >> yeah, hes going to leave the area where the -- >> say that again. >> hes going to leave the area where he was at. >> mailing area? >> yeah, where you get your mail at. >> ill make sure that everybody understands what youre saying. did you say he said he was going to leave the mailing area where hes at? >> yes. >> okay. what did you take that to mean? >> that hes leaving the area. he say hes going to start walking home. >> okay. then what happened? >> so then w...