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Originally posted by Stiltzkin
If you have a heavy accent, stop speaking your fucking native language for a few years until it clears up if you ever expect to get any respect... or shut the fuck up!
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Stiltzkin, go to France for a couple of years. See how happy you are if you never speak a word of English. Even if you do that, see how good your French is after a few years. I'll wager dollars to dimes that you still won't be able to pronounce 'rouge' or even 'France' correctly. Losing an accent isn't a matter of practice; sometimes it just won't happen. Whoever has the accent still probably speaks English better than you speak any other tongue at all.
The only exception is college lecturers. I'm having enough trouble understanding propositional logic in English; having it presented in something that's damned near Polish doesn't help. But then, I wish no harm to my lecturer; I just wish he'd find something to do besides try to teach me!
That rant aside, great thread! Clavus, I really wish I could get away with a signiature that long!