I almost always sit in an exit row...I'm with the others who don't like to trust my safety to others. But one time, in the row opposite of ours, there was a deaf person and friend in the other exit row. The friend interpreted the flight attendant's instructions, and the person wasn't asked to move. But all I could think was, if we crash and the friend is killed, how the f!*#k! is the deaf person going to understand any instructions the FA might be yelling? I was glad to be in my OWN exit row.

On another flight, one of the people in the row didn't speak English. The FA forced them to move, despite their English-speaking companion's objections.