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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by tigershark on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:32PM (#16020319)
Actually in Philippines pretty much everyone speaks a quite understandable English compared to the average Indian that thinks to be speaking a perfect English while the reality is quite different.
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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by kartickv on Thursday December 28, 2017 @04:16AM (#16021094)
"Understandable" to you, based on where you live and what dialect of English you speak :)
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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by Spooky23 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:45AM (#16021938)
For most folks in the US, understanding a Spanish accent is easier than most Indian accents. This is especially true for lower paid support roles.
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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by kartickv on Thursday December 28, 2017 @09:07PM (#16026970)
Maybe so, and many Americans aren't understandable to me as an Indian. I just wanted to point out that not being understandable is a statement about the person making it as much as it is about the people it's ostensibly about. Indians, in this case,
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Re:India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this... by Spooky23 on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:24PM (#16027508)
Totally get it.

I grew up in a weird household, with half my family with strong Irish accents and the other with strong NYC accents. When I moved away from New York, almost nobody could understand me at all for a few weeks. A few teachers thought I was a non-native speaker.

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