Could You Be Understood?

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

I doubt anyone could understand this guy now. 

[Rip Snorter]

Went to the UK a couple of times in the late '70's - English major could speak and write fluent American.  Some funny communication issues!  Quite a learning curve, but easy after the first trip.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Depends on where you are.  I can't understand people from Scotland, some Englishmen, Aussies, and folks from the Ozarks, Appalachians, NYC, and Los Angeles now.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

41 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Depends on where you are.  I can't understand people from Scotland, some Englishmen, Aussies, and folks from the Ozarks, Appalachians, NYC, and Los Angeles now.

Despite a “common” language, some people need subtitles. 😁

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 12/20/2024 at 6:46 PM, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Despite a “common” language, some people need subtitles. 😁

One of my nephews married a Scottish lassie.  For the first six or seven years we'd go up to Utah to visit and he'd translate for us.  Now some 25 years later she speaks American better than he does.....unless she gets riled up and then the brogue comes back in spades.