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I'll make sure that everybody understands what you're saying. did you say he said he's going to leave the mailing area where he's 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 i'm at it, i'm close to 50, listen to black people. talking every day. it's called a great deal of mainstream american music. she's quite comprehensible. it's just that people don't want to understand her and the whole larger question. >> thank you. yeah, i think that's, to me, ...

People i know thinking she's 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? that's black english. my cousins did that when i was little. it's the narrative pluperfect. linguists talk about it. i think a lot of us will -- >> that's it. willful. thank you. that's the thing that has caught me here. i understand what she's saying. >> perfe...

People i know thinking she's 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? that's black english. my cousins did that when i was little. it's the narrative pluperfect. linguists talk about it. i think a lot of us will -- >> that's it. willful. thank you. that's the thing that has caught me here. i understand what she's saying. >> perfe...

Grass, until you heard the "get off," until the phone disconnected. how long did that take? >> i don't 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, didn't 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. that's what i said. >> at what point then, if any, in this conversation did you pay particular attention -- >> when i had called back. >> when he was sort of whis...

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, in another complex in between the story and where he was staying? >> the complex that he was staying ...