Re: Surprise Recovery

While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, <satyap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scrawled:
On 31 Aug 2008 00:33:46 GMT, John F. Eldredge wrote:
I suspect that the number of immigrants who don't want to learn English
is fairly small; most people are smart enough to recognize the advantages

Then there are those of us who had to take the test of english as a
foreign language, passed with flying colors, and are merely handicapped
by a thick accent.

Shouldn't it be s/thick/different/? Having lived in the
midsouth, I've heard some pretty thick accents there too. Never had
issues myself, but certainly a lot of my classmates had issues
understanding the locals.

-Tai
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