He was mocking a foreign accent. He hasn't changed, and the subtlety of it made it kind of worse than normal.
On topic: I think most accents are penetrable if you focus hard enough. I agree that people should speak the language well if they need to converse with people in it, but there's some burden on the listener too because they should at least give their full concentration. I've never been in a situation where I've been at a complete loss to understand what someone is saying in English and I've met a lot of people with thick accents, which is why I think most accents can be understood if you listen hard and ask them to repeat slowly.
As a sidenote: "forcing" a kid with a speech impediment to have speech therapy isn't the same a forcing a foreign person to. Kids with speech impediments aren't legally mandated to have speech therapy, and if they were forced to go it was their parents doing the forcing, not the government.
Is it normal it annoys me that foreigners skip speech training?
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He was mocking a foreign accent. He hasn't changed, and the subtlety of it made it kind of worse than normal.
On topic: I think most accents are penetrable if you focus hard enough. I agree that people should speak the language well if they need to converse with people in it, but there's some burden on the listener too because they should at least give their full concentration. I've never been in a situation where I've been at a complete loss to understand what someone is saying in English and I've met a lot of people with thick accents, which is why I think most accents can be understood if you listen hard and ask them to repeat slowly.
As a sidenote: "forcing" a kid with a speech impediment to have speech therapy isn't the same a forcing a foreign person to. Kids with speech impediments aren't legally mandated to have speech therapy, and if they were forced to go it was their parents doing the forcing, not the government.
Who? I don't understand.