She added her father was not bedridden or comatose and could hold a conversation and swallow.
Yet only 60% of islanders can now hold a conversation in Corsican, against 80% in 1977.
When it comes to training in social skills, staff are told to be "personable, approachable and able to hold a conversation".
Yet eventually we listen to music, hold a conversation, and drive at the same time without any conscious effort at all.
If a recruiter calls you, don't try to hold a conversation with your TV blaring in the background or your child screaming on your lap.
It will, he suggests, soon be possible to hold a conversation in English with a friend in Tokyo who is reading your words in Japanese.
Lots of researchers around the world are trying to make computer software that can hold a reasonable conversation with humans.
Lawn equipment clatters, creating a din in the background as you try to hold a business conversation from your home office.
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So whether they want to pursue this as a career objective or many of our students just want to have better communication and articulation and be able to you know, hold an intelligent conversation, we provide that for all of them.
Mr Howard, who is in Washington for talks on Iraq with US President George W Bush, said South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki told him in a telephone conversation on Saturday that South Africa and Nigeria did not want to hold another meeting of the panel.
In the course of the conversation they discussed other things as well, and Ms. Currie agreed to hold the box of gifts.
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This would enable the phone to detect when the person on the other end of the telephone was paying full attention to the conversation, and whether the speaker needed to modify what was being said to hold their attention.
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