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>Users of English who can only understand a narrow range of accents (Americans, I'm looking at you!) Is this based on your anecdotal observations, or is this o
by nck4222 7y ago
>Users of English who can only understand a narrow range of accents (Americans, I'm looking at you!)
Is this based on your anecdotal observations, or is this opinion based on something concrete? Because as an American who knows many other Americans, my anecdotal experience is that we can understand English accents from people all over the world.
This of course varies from person to person, but software engineers I've worked with are accustomed to speaking with people with accents.
- crispinb 7y ago> Is this based on your anecdotal observations, or is this opinion based on something concrete? Not every semi-flippant comment has to be a bloody double-blind epidemiological study. Get a grip, man! Go and have a beer.
- spraak 7y agoThen why make the comment? This isn't Reddit
- crispinb 7y agoI think there might be an ever so tiny sliver of space between every bracketed jocular aside needing a reference to a peer-reviewed double-blinded study, and falling into redditland. Intellectual rigour applied wisely is clearly a virtue. Inquisitorial nit-picking humourlessness however is just a bore.
- procgen 7y agoIt was a peculiar aside - you shouldn't be surprised that you were asked about it.
- barry-cotter 7y agoI have seen an Italian interpreting between a Georgian (US) and a Scot (probably Glaswegian) with all speaking English.
- paulmooreparks 7y agoI'm from Georgia, USA, living in Singapore, and I regularly translate English-to-English among colleagues who are Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Thai, Aussie, American, British, etc. I think exposure to many English accents and dialects certainly helps regional comprehension even though it's the same language.