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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 505826" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Marg's Man...</p><p>We joke around here that if everybody "went back to where they came from", there would be nobody left, because even the First Nations came from somewhere else... We're not the cradle of anything!</p><p></p><p>I think, as Canadians, we have an advantage - we kind of sit in the middle of the whole English-speaking spectrum. The really thick dialects (mostly out of jolly old England) are tough to follow, as is a really deep-southern-US drawl. Otherwise, most of us don't get lost with anybody's English. </p><p></p><p>Its jolly good fun to make fun of it, though. I'll be in a meeting with people from 3 provs and 2 or 3 states... and somebody will ask a question and get a "wrong" answer... because we stumbled on some idiom that we weren't aware of...</p><p></p><p><grin></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 505826, member: 11791"] Marg's Man... We joke around here that if everybody "went back to where they came from", there would be nobody left, because even the First Nations came from somewhere else... We're not the cradle of anything! I think, as Canadians, we have an advantage - we kind of sit in the middle of the whole English-speaking spectrum. The really thick dialects (mostly out of jolly old England) are tough to follow, as is a really deep-southern-US drawl. Otherwise, most of us don't get lost with anybody's English. Its jolly good fun to make fun of it, though. I'll be in a meeting with people from 3 provs and 2 or 3 states... and somebody will ask a question and get a "wrong" answer... because we stumbled on some idiom that we weren't aware of... <grin> [/QUOTE]
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