Can't Speak Properly - Meh
Posted: Aug 22, 2014
There are a couple of dictators whose grammar, pronunciation, and enunciation is so poor, you wonder if they actually need a translator in order to speak to their English-speaking patients. A translator that can translate poor English. That translator would be bilingual, that is, English-speaking and poor-English-speaking. Yes, it seems "poor English" is also a language of its own that only those who speak it can understand.
Ha ha ha, I can see Robin Williams doing a "translation" - Val
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Maybe it would be so hysterical and embarrassing it would send Dr. Incoherent back to his own country to mangle more syntax. RIP Robin Williams.
the OP was speaking of Americans - not ESL speakers - nm
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ESL or Non-ESL - Meh
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I was referring to "poor English" speakers that can be either ESL or non-ESL. When I wrote the post, I had just encountered a "poor English" speaker that happened to be ESL, however. But I don't think one necessarily has to be a originally from another country to be a poor English speaker, evidence being what I've heard as an MT.
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