Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child
by jessaustin on Sunday July 23, 2017 @12:13AM
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That seems like English? Anyone from any part of the English-speaking world can understand anyone else from any other part, except there are lots of people from England that none of us can understand.
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There are plenty of incomprehensible Americans and Australians etc, precepts you either don't interact with them (poor people?) or you are American / Australian, and don't realise that as a Brit I can have difficult understanding a strong Boston accent.
(I think. One of the characters in "Spotlight" was the most recent time I understood almost nothing.)
Who is "us"? I'm not English, but lived there for more than 16 years. I think I understand most British regional English accents, including Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish quite well.
> Anyone from any part of the English-speaking world can understand anyone else from any other part,
Try watching an English person ask an American (in the US) for water or where the herbs are.
Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child
by jessaustin on Sunday July 23, 2017 @07:40PM
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Yes my point was precisely that many people from England are incomprehensible.