Tag: English
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Accents
I occasionally hear people complain about English spoken with foreign accents. I am usually fairly forgiving of people who know my language better than I know theirs. Spanish accents don’t bother me, neither do Mediterranean or Indian accents. Oddly enough though when it is obvious that English is a person’s first language and they pronounce…
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Europe
Traveling from home. When I was in high school, my uncle flew all over the world professionally. His employer paid all the airfare, so he built up a bunch of frequent flyer miles that he didn’t need. He offered them to me so I could take a week long trip to Germany. I had been…