Originally Posted by Nisgeis

4Para never had any problems understanding anyone else at all. He is not a secondary speaker of English and understood perfectly everything posed to him. He takes delight in bending the written word to his own ends, but has no trouble understanding anything in English. Granted, his communication was poor, so you may be forgiven for sometimes inferring that he didn't understand due to his woolly response, but there is no reason for him not to have understood. He is a native English speaker.