That's quite a neat solution - wish that was available here.
However, as far as the first part goes, I can't see how poor hearing
is the problem. Can you understand a strong Texas accent?
Murkins do seem to be rather intolerant of non-N.American voices. I've
heard many stories of English and Oz/NZ visitors to the US who have
quite mild regional accents and have had dreadful trouble being
understood there, even by those with barely comprehensible speech
patterns themselves.
The French do it too - my niece tells me I'm clumsy but perfectly
understandable but many decline to understand on the grounds that I'm
probably English or worse. Unless I'm buying something or I'm a friend
of a friend.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 13/02/2010, at 3:14 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> Because they often speak poor English and are difficult to
> communicate with.
> My hearing is poor and I simply cannot understand them. On top of
> that, I
> absolutely refuse as a young college grad who cannot find work, whose
> friends are mostly educated and unemployed, to encourage the export of
> American jobs by talking to a poorly paid person whose willingness
> to work
> for slave wages encourages the parasite class in this country to
> continue to
> destroy the middle class. Whenever I call any company that puts me
> through
> to a non-native speaker of English, I start speaking Spanish. They
> transfer
> you to a Spanish speaking agent, who is almost always in the USA,
> making a
> living wage. Most are Hispanic, and as a person of Spanish ancestry
> I am
> happy to see them employed.
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|