>>13133540i vaguely remember this conversation now. i just felt it was overly artsy and intentionally difficult to follow to a fault
yet somehow i'm supposed to be the boomer zoomer
whoa i never noticed that different people in different places sometimes speak differently from each other. that's crazy.
actually though i got pretty heated talking to me mum about this a while ago. apparently in the international business world americans are famous for their inability to understand the accents of foreign countries. some retard got on their high horse and said that americans "just need to try harder to understand" rather than indians and chinese people try and speak with an intelligible accent.
conversation about whether "indian english" is "just a dialect" aside, something like this shows such a lack of understanding for how people process language. if a euro is surrounded by 4 different languages they develop a natural understanding of the sounds in all those languages from an early age, even if they only speak 1 or 2 of them. you can't just "listen harder" and understand exactly the sounds someone's making otherwise everyone would be able to mimic regional accents without any issues.
now that i know a decent bit of japanese i can understand english spoken with a heavy japanese accent infinitely betterr than before, but it's not a realistic solution for american suits to just go learn 3 languages so they can understand people's accents. if it was then english wouldn't be used as the definitive lingua franca in the first place
