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On 05/03/2015 03:38, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 1:03:13 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano:
>>
>>> Care to enlighten us then? Because your anecdote doesn't appear to
>>> have even the most tenuous relationship to this discussion.
>>
>> Even more important, when you talk about Python or other computer stuff
>> to a non-English-speaker, try to emulate the accent most people around
>> the world are most familiar with, American English. If you find that
>> overwhelming, try to speak like a BBC newsreader. Your native accent can
>> be very difficult to understand.
>
> You keep talking of accent.
> At first I thought you were using the word figuratively or else joking.
> Im now beginning to wonder if you mean it literally.
> If so have you patented a new AOIP protocol?
> If not do you give tuitions¹ in ESP/telepathy/Voodoo?  I'll be happy to pay<wink>
>
> ----------
> ¹GG is red-lining tuitions -- heh!
>

I like the idea of some visitor to Scotland mentioning some speaker's 
English accent.  I'm not so keen on the idea of the said visitor being 
introduced to the Scottish handshake.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence