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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
My cousins from Manila speak perfect English. In fact, on the phone people know they are not from the United States because their English is too perfect. They enunciate every syllable, and I don't know anyone in the U.S. that does that. I slur words, overenunciate, eat my words, mumble the end of my sentences, and butcher pronunciations altogether. And I graduated from College with Honors!
It's a sad state of affairs in American education when you can tell someone isn't from the United States because they speak American English too well. Am I off topic?
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well, isn't that always the case with language? i know foreigners who speak better chinese than i do!
