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Originally Posted by BBKing
* My son met another kid in the swings last week, who was obviously not English. His Dad was there, and had a strong accent, so I asked him where he came from - 'Croatia'. Turns out that the lad, who's lived here most of his life, isn't particularly good at Croatian, since obviously everyone he goes to nursery** with speaks English, despite the area being extremely mixed. He only gets the language at home.
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Reminds me of this guy I spoke to on the phone at work a few weeks back. I had trouble understanding him from his accent but his english was pretty good. I asked him where he was from and he said "Russia". I realised something wasn't quite right when I proceded to tell him his English was very very good - his attitude turned quite negative from there.
After the call I mentioned this to a colleague who knew the guy I was talking to - he wasn't from Russia at all - he was from RossShire and just had a very thick Scottish accent.
Ah we can look back and laugh now.
Anyway, I don't see this being all that different from British papers being on sale abroad. They're just catering to a new market, that's business. However I do wonder how they're going to word their next "Blame it on Poles/Immigrants" story.