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Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

Hello_there@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

you forgot

Scottish English. It took a solid 10 seconds each way to interpret to US English.
someone from thhhpain talking to deep pinche Mexico cabron
India where people from one of 35 languages have to talk to each other.

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Katrisia@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The second one is not a big problem. Within the Spanish speaking world, only a couple of accents give ‘universal’ problems, really. Some Chilean variants, some Caribbean variants, some Andalusian accents… Otherwise, it’s fine.

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