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Re:Popcorn Linux by teddyh on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:58AM (#23066546)
I judge the video not by the enthusiasm of the people involved, but by the actual contents of the video.

You know what is an important workplace skill (tech or not)? Speaking intelligibly.

Some people seem to think that all criticism of accents is bad, because racism. This is actually backwards. I myself am an ESL speaker, and therefore have some trouble understanding heavy accents. Using people with heavy accents in a video instead excludes people who speak English as a second language, since we, as a group, are not trained in it. Our experience of spoken English have mainly come from TV and movies, where people speak clearly. So when we see something like this video, we are effectively excluded from understanding it.

Saying things like “was it really that hard” is condescending. Yes, it’s hard if you don’t have a lifetime of training, which people in English-speaking countries do. We ESL speakers don’t. Producers of videos should be more considerate.

Re:Popcorn Linux by eternauta3k on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:45AM (#23066830)
I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. I know I have an easier time understanding History on Fire[1]'s thick Italian accent than Americans do. When learning English, you learn the correct pronunciation and also the "incorrect" pronunciation used by your classmates.

[1]http://historyonfirepodcast.com/

Re:Popcorn Linux by teddyh on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:58AM (#23066933)
None of the speakers in the video use my local version of what passes for English, and therefore I have no training in understanding the video. It is difficult for anyone who has not lived with people having all of those accents. Which is unlikely if you’re living in a non-English speaking culture.