We get by age and our hearing is decreasing. Misunderstandings such as ‘GadaverkroRoek’, the elderly in ‘Emergency Mobi’ and the informer who presents his ‘gender’ instead of his ‘report’ are the order of the day. In short, usually funny and innocent. There are sensitivities with regard to the attention for physical ailments. For example, when I tried to trump my partner with ‘who started d’r’, he silent, clearly hurt. He thought it was going too far to be called ‘hypochondriac’.
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