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<blockquote data-quote="Ophiolite" data-source="post: 76025309" data-attributes="member: 234799"><p>I spent close to forty years working for American companies, working with Americans (and fifty other nationalities besides), visiting the US frequently and living there for two or three years. I've been racking my brains to think if I ever had any difficulty and can think of none. But then again I've not been in rural Kentucky, or up some Mississipi bayou. </p><p></p><p>I have run across individuals whom I found difficult to understand, but that was not accent, but the rhythym of their speech: rapid bursts, with words run together even across the ends of sentences and sudden gaps placed at random. But I have the same trouble at times in understanding my daughter, since she has the same speech pattern. Come to think of it, she was born in the US, so perhaps there is something in the water. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ophiolite, post: 76025309, member: 234799"] I spent close to forty years working for American companies, working with Americans (and fifty other nationalities besides), visiting the US frequently and living there for two or three years. I've been racking my brains to think if I ever had any difficulty and can think of none. But then again I've not been in rural Kentucky, or up some Mississipi bayou. I have run across individuals whom I found difficult to understand, but that was not accent, but the rhythym of their speech: rapid bursts, with words run together even across the ends of sentences and sudden gaps placed at random. But I have the same trouble at times in understanding my daughter, since she has the same speech pattern. Come to think of it, she was born in the US, so perhaps there is something in the water. :) [/QUOTE]
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