Voicing an opinion as worthless as a wino at a wedding, Carlos Alden
postulated...

in article , Eric K. Weber at
wrote on 3/30/04 12:21 PM:

If you want to have fun with accents in country's who claim to speak
English try Nigeria.... The ship I was on a few years back made
all our entry communications to the port of Lagos in Greek.... we
could not understand their English.... when we got to the part about
registry USA and all crew US citizens and they didn't believe us..

Rgds:
Eric


Years ago I was living in China with my wife teaching English. We
dropped by our favorite restaurant while in Shanghai on a trip there.
It was quite crowded and they placed us at a table with a couple of
other foreigners - two very ruddy and large bearded sailors in full
uniform. These guys were pleasantly drunk and friendly, but we
couldn't understand a word they said, but intuited it was some
Northern European language. Dutch? High German? Some odd form of
Danish? After about 20 minutes I finally noticed the emblem on their
hat, which noted "H.M.S." I asked them where they were from, and
finally got it out of them that they were from New Zealand and were
speaking English! It was the beer, and the fact that we probably
hadn't heard English spoken in a month that threw us off. These guys
were fresh off the Sheep stations and were the New Zealand equivalent
of a thick southern Mississippi twang, or maybe a mouthful of
Brooklyn marbles.

Carlos

I just got back from a mad dash to Scotland, where they speak English.
Unfortunately en route one must pass through Geordieland, where they talk
total gibberish.
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