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When people borderline yell at those with thick accents
My Bio lab teacher was ranting about this a while ago (She has a very strong Polish accent) , talking about how this one lady was speaking in short words and enunciating them loudly and sharply like she was deaf. This is far from the only time this has happened, and I've witnessed people talking to my grandma this way too.
Maybe it's because I grew up with a Polish family, but it has never occurred to me to treat people with accents like they are deaf or can't understand English. An accent says little about someone's mastery of the language or lack thereof, it's a fundamental speaking habit that is difficult to correct. English speakers, I dare you to avoid pronouncing the bilabial fricatives of Greek as dental fricatives, and to properly use tone in Mandarin in casual conversation! When you are not used to pronouncing a sound, you are more wont to approximate it in your native phonology than take the time out of the conversation to force it out.
I can't believe how people don't realize how patronizing and rude they are being with the unnecessary over-annunciation.
Maybe it's because I grew up with a Polish family, but it has never occurred to me to treat people with accents like they are deaf or can't understand English. An accent says little about someone's mastery of the language or lack thereof, it's a fundamental speaking habit that is difficult to correct. English speakers, I dare you to avoid pronouncing the bilabial fricatives of Greek as dental fricatives, and to properly use tone in Mandarin in casual conversation! When you are not used to pronouncing a sound, you are more wont to approximate it in your native phonology than take the time out of the conversation to force it out.
I can't believe how people don't realize how patronizing and rude they are being with the unnecessary over-annunciation.
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...Although it reminds me of how my girlfriend's family teased me by pronouncing hurricane as hurricun
That drove me up the wall
That part about phonology is something I've been telling Chagen for quite a while. Nice to see someone else mention how difficult it is.
I can do Greek's bilabial fricatives without trouble.
Now, German's Velar fricative ("Ich") is just impossible for me.
Oh, you can, but it's hard.
Even langs close to your own can have sounds foriegn to you, as I showed with German.