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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, my father passed at 93.  My father came to the US in 1949 at the age of 23 and live the last 70 years of his life in the US.  He came for graduate school and never left.  His entire working career was in the US.  He was fluent in American English, but we did notice in the last 10 years of his life that he was slowly losing his control of English.  By the time he passed, he sounded like a recent immigrant and half the time, I had to speak to him in his native language.  We found out after he died of a major stroke, that he had had a series of mini-strokes (found during his autopsy).  It explains the gradual loss of his second language in the last decade of his life.

Apparently, with mini-strokes, it is not unusual to lose things that you learned later in life and are left with mostly longer term memories from earlier in life.

If you look at videos of Trump even up through his 50's and early 60's he had a significantly larger working vocabulary.  It wasn't until his late 60's, like 10 years ago, that he started losing many of the multi-syllabic works in his diction and he started using much more simple colloquial vernacular in his speech.  His loss of his more advanced vocabulary and diction definitely mirrors my own father's loss of his second language and some of the more complex vocabulary that he had developed over a lifetime of working in the US after the mini-strokes had started to affect him.

I definitely see some of the same signs in Donald Trump.  It would not be at all surprising if he suffers are much more serious stroke in the next few years.[/quote]

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