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> What if I genuinely don’t understand what they’re saying, and neither does anyone in my team? This sounds like a severe deficiency in your team, but it's not
by Planktonne 6mo ago
> What if I genuinely don’t understand what they’re saying, and neither does anyone in my team?
This sounds like a severe deficiency in your team, but it's not hard for you to learn to handle other accents.
Learned helplessness is not an excuse.
- stingraycharles 6mo agoSo everyone in the world should just be capable of speaking all different accents of English there are, just because of.. what? Fabricated outrage? Do you even realize just how special it is that English is the defacto standard language and that this happens to work? And now you’re saying it’s realistic for everyone to also learn all different accents of every country? You do realize that Filipinos have difficulty understanding Indians and vice versa? Should they both be completely comfortable with each others’ accents, rather than a single standard way to pronounce things? This is such a ridiculous take.
- ryandrake 6mo agoI don't think the ability to understand the accents of the people you may interact with at work is an unreasonable baseline job requirement, at least not these days of very diverse teams. Many people have to learn an entire foreign language (English) as a job requirement! If I went to work at a German company, I might be both expected to learn German fluently and be able to understand regional accents, too.