As I’ve said half a dozen times before, my wife speaks fantastic English. Better than any other German I’ve met. However, there are times when I am uncertain she truly understands everything I’m saying. I suspect my points are sometimes lost in translation, and other times she is outright ignoring me.
My latter suspicion was plainly the case back in early 2012, when I finished an impassioned monologue concerning the expected advantages of Adobe Creative Suit 6 over version 5.5:
ME: “… and that’s why in CS6 you will be able to… hey, are you even listening to me?”
THE WIFE: “I heard you. What’d you say?”
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Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
I think her response defies international boundaries.
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I think so too, Jim. I think it falls squarely within the boundaries of marriage. :)
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I had a shitty call center job repping Adobe products back when Creative Suite was first launched… In fairness, even *other professional Adobe users* started to zone out when you describe the upgrade path.
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Nice! Did this job take place in a cubicle farm?
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Of course. The punchline is that not long after I left, there was a *tuberculoisis outbreak* in said cubicle farm. Yeah.
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That’s a giveaway for sure! There’s no pretending on this one.
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Right? And she didn’t even feel bad!
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Hahaha, love your wife! I suspect she is just taking advantage of English not being her first language in order to avoid having to listen to you. I bet millions of wives all over the world envy people like her and me because we have this option while they don’t. Eat your heart out bitches!
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Haw haw haw!
That option goes both ways, Sandra. I zone out of most of my wife’s German conversations. :)
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Beats complete, unanswering silence and a blank stare, I suppose. Or a question or statement completely unrelated to your monologue. I get that a lot. Sends me around the bend.
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