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English is a tough language due to inconsistent spelling vs. pronunciation rules. On an Apple, when I dictate in Spanish, it is nearly 100% accurate except for non-Hispanic proper names. In English, I get about 80% correct, but only if I do a sort of monotone style of speaking.
IMO when Presidents visit areas ravaged by a disaster, natural or otherwise, it's a darned if they do/darned if they don't proposition in some ways. While the President is almost obligated to show up, speak and tour the area in an effort to show they and the country at large care, and that federal dollars and resources are being provided to help them, one of my buddies who was in an area that was damaged during the Bush administration wished he wouldn't have come at all - and it had nothing to do with politics.
Do you have an accent?
As Hurricane Ian's course shifted after landfall, I asked my Android smart phone "Will Hurricane Ian be impacting Vermont?" and "Will Hurricane Ian be impacting New England?" Each time, the phone would display old information on Hurricane DORIAN, which brushed the Southeast coast in 2019 and did not affect New England at all. I do not have much of a Boston accent left after 49 years away, so there should have been no problem with comprehensibility. After repeated attempts, I finally asked "Will Hurricane I-A-N (eye-ay-en) be impacting Vermont?" Only then did I get the information I was after.
In Spanish, I definitely have a Puerto Rican accent. In English, it is the classic Indianapolis to Cleveland zone "neutral" North American accent. I do have an accent when muddling through my more basic Italian, French and Portuguese.
I'm more concerned with deep regional American English accents, such as the deep rural South, Appalachia and parts of Texas. I have considerable trouble understanding some of those when I get hit with one on a service call or phone order or support call.
You are indeed a very talented man. I can't imagine keeping all those languages (and syntax) straight.
We share that same problem. When I worked for a big international corporation we frequently had phone meetings with Brits, Irish, and Filipino speakers at the same time. I found it was the Brits I had the most trouble with due mainly to the speed with which they talked and substitution of words not common in America. Go figure!
Thank you. I used to get by rather well in Quechua so that I could deal with the people who watched my transmitter sites and did maintenance at the different locations, but that is such a unique language that within a few years of not using it, I forgot almost all of it.
My family is from Appalachia, a simple trick we used to "not sound backwoods" is do tongue twisters.
If Perfection were a prerequisite for the Office of the President, we lost that battle and standard decades back. No one is perfect, not even politicians or the ones that truly deep down think they are. Seems that so far the lines of communication between the Governor and the President have been amicable as they should be during times of crisis. It's so difficult to watch the degree of destruction and the vision of the road ahead, never mind the fact that there are alligators everywhere too... I can't even imagine.
I had one college professor who said I should try to lose my accent if I wanted to succeed in the business world. I don't think I ever did. Though one of my doctors when I was a child said I talked like a Yankee.
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My grandmother was from Boston, but lived most of her life in the Midwest. You could still hear the Boston accent some in person, but it REALLY came through on the phone.
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