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[quote=GRIZ326                 ,29362]I actually missed some of apault's post, Pinetree.It is true that an American cannot understand the speech of a rank 'n file Irishman, Englishman, or Australian...so certainly the reverse must be true too.  When I worked as a radio broadcaster there was a standard for announcers. We had to speak clearly, use correct speech, and NOT have a regional dialect. Of course, that standard was abandoned long ago, so the quality of speech on radio and television has deteriorated greatly. And that has a rippling effect into the audience population. The American-english spoken by both broadcasters and citizens is distressing poor right now...and peppered with vulgarity. The broadcasters on CCTV are very good, but they would not be good teachers english because they make many speech errors. On the other hand, spoken English is a living language. ...so China should be free to create its own Chinese variation of it just as America has. Hopefully, the Chinese varient of English will be better than the current American version.[/quote]

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