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To me, this more sounds like something easy to nitpick. > The fact that people from different English speaking countries have issues communicating is already a
by beardedman 5y ago
To me, this more sounds like something easy to nitpick.
> The fact that people from different English speaking countries have issues communicating is already a big hint about how odd is English phonetically.
News to me. I've never met someone from Australia/UK/NZ not being able to understand someone from the US/Canada. Personally, I've also found native english speakers FAR more accommodating of non-native speakers. Try do anything in Spain/France/Germany/China/Russia/etc without knowing the language (or only knowing it basically) & it's like you're playing Russian roulette with people being rude.
- pcthrowaway 5y ago> Try do anything in Spain/France/Germany/China/Russia/etc without knowing the language (or only knowing it basically) & it's like you're playing Russian roulette with people being rude. I've experienced this in France, but in Germany the language may as well have been English. I worked for a German software company for a bit and English was spoken by everyone in their office in Bavaria. People in the region spoke English regularly as well. In Berlin I definitely heard more English than German on the street.
- beardedman 5y agoTech is always the misnomer because it's english everywhere. Honestly, I'm shocked quite regularly with how little & how badly english is spoken in Germany (outside of tech) - and how rude people can be (esp. over the phone) if you don't speak semi-fluent german.