• @RamblingPanda
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    421 month ago

    CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ME? YOU ENGLISH? gestures wildly

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      I have friend who told me that his father speaks broken english to non-native speakers. If they hire landscapers, for example, he’ll start mimicking a hispanic accent and dropping words and deliberately changing grammar. His entire family is terribly embarrassed by this behavior, even if he means well. What a tool.

      As we’ve been told since at least the early nineties: if a non-native english speaker can’t understand you, just repeat yourself and ASK LOUDER. /s

      • @RamblingPanda
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        21 month ago

        And don’t you forget to gesture! THEY NO UNDERSTAND WITHOUT! 👍🫱🤜👋💪