Remember, if someone is speaking English to you with an accent, they are probably, by default, smarter than you because they speak two languages. Don't patronize them.
@Miriamm my daughter speaks perfect English, and German. And Spanish. And French. And Luxembourgish (yes, itβs a language) and makes me look like an idiot, having said that my own late mother found it difficult to understand my spoken English and we were both born in Manchester! ππ
@Miriamm@jaycee When I studied in Ireland for a year, one of my Irish housemates told me how the Americans complimented him on his English, being from Ireland and everything, when he worked there over summer.
Well, I'll have to take your word for it. I'm a descriptivist rather than a prescriptivist myself and I feel that where expression and communication of meaning are clear, that such things are inherently valid. It's all about your target audience. π