I've seen something like this with speech. - I have some accent when speaking english but not much. - Some colleagues from my home town have much stronger acce

I've seen something like this with speech. - I have some accent when speaking english but not much. - Some colleagues from my home town have much stronger accents. When they speak some words in weird ways I find that american colleagues just understand and move on. When I speak a word in a weird way they'll either laugh, bc it is funny, or just be confused. I think its because they are paying more attention to my colleagues with stronger accents because they know they have to. But with me they'll be more relaxed and get caught off guard when I pronounce words wrong.