Understanding accents
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From: Denton, TX
Originally Posted by The Raptor,Sep 3 2009, 11:22 AM
Your English gets a 
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From: La Crescenta, CA
Originally Posted by DFWs2k,Sep 3 2009, 10:28 AM
and i think my english was fine, just the sentence composition and capitalization could've obviously been better, but this is teh interwebz, so relax
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Getting back on track, I'm quite good at understanding people with thick accents.
On our 10th wedding anniversary my wife and I stayed, amongst other places, at a bed-and-breakfast in Santa Barbara called The Cheshire Cat. The manager was Glaswegian, and his burr was so strong that every three or four sentences my wife would look at me and ask, "What did he say?"
I admit, however, that when I first taught a course in discrete mathematics for engineering majors - most of whom were Vietnamese - it took me a while before I realized that when my students said "esk", they meant midway between "w" and "y".
On our 10th wedding anniversary my wife and I stayed, amongst other places, at a bed-and-breakfast in Santa Barbara called The Cheshire Cat. The manager was Glaswegian, and his burr was so strong that every three or four sentences my wife would look at me and ask, "What did he say?"
I admit, however, that when I first taught a course in discrete mathematics for engineering majors - most of whom were Vietnamese - it took me a while before I realized that when my students said "esk", they meant midway between "w" and "y".