Your point is well taken Andrew. I watched a segment of "Sunday Morning"
this week (national TV show) in which they interviewed Susan Boyle and felt
the need to include subtitles. Come on! She has a pretty good burr but not
*that* hard to follow.
Charlie
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> That's quite a neat solution - wish that was available here.
> However, as far as the first part goes, I can't see how poor hearing
> is the problem. Can you understand a strong Texas accent?
> Murkins do seem to be rather intolerant of non-N.American voices. I've
> heard many stories of English and Oz/NZ visitors to the US who have
> quite mild regional accents and have had dreadful trouble being
> understood there, even by those with barely comprehensible speech
> patterns themselves.
> The French do it too - my niece tells me I'm clumsy but perfectly
> understandable but many decline to understand on the grounds that I'm
> probably English or worse. Unless I'm buying something or I'm a friend
> of a friend.
>
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 13/02/2010, at 3:14 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>
> > Because they often speak poor English and are difficult to
> > communicate with.
> > My hearing is poor and I simply cannot understand them. On top of
> > that, I
> > absolutely refuse as a young college grad who cannot find work, whose
> > friends are mostly educated and unemployed, to encourage the export of
> > American jobs by talking to a poorly paid person whose willingness
> > to work
> > for slave wages encourages the parasite class in this country to
> > continue to
> > destroy the middle class. Whenever I call any company that puts me
> > through
> > to a non-native speaker of English, I start speaking Spanish. They
> > transfer
> > you to a Spanish speaking agent, who is almost always in the USA,
> > making a
> > living wage. Most are Hispanic, and as a person of Spanish ancestry
> > I am
> > happy to see them employed.
>
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