Subj : Re: Language Support
To   : Roon
From : n2qfd
Date : Mon May 13 2024 07:03 am

 Ro> my father has friends in Austria, Netherlands, Czech, Italy, so in  my
 Ro> childhood i heard a lot of different languages, so i think this is why i
 Ro> love hearing the different accents and to play with the langs. since i
 Ro> but funnily my accent is from one valley in Tirol area which confuses
 Ro> every other german speaking, because they hear that i am not a native

This is super Roon, 
  My father was stationed in Okinawa and so I grew up hearing more bits of 
Japaneses and other Asian languages. My mom's father spoke German but didn't 
want us to learn it as he was sensitive about the war and how they were held in 
suspicion for it. My Czech was a Prague accent so everyone assumed I was one of 
the snooty capital people when I was in the country but I never learned to hear 
the difference. Attitudes always changed when they found out I knew something 
about fixing water wells or tractors! I had an uncle stationed in Augsberg too 
so there was Der Spiegle and Oui magazines around. We always had something that 
wasn't English yet here the shibboleths are very real. I was working in 
Northern Pennsylvania on the gas pipelines and we had hands from all over Latin 
America. There was variations in Spanish all over the place and English too. It 
was very hard for me to understand the welders from Mississippi. I worked with 
guys from Texas and Oklahoma who's English was different but more in idioms. 
Still, Pittsburgh isn't so far and they have many different idioms and 
expressions from here. I think the only other time I really struggled to 
understand some English was in northern Maine!

  N2

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