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> It surprised me when I worked in Australia that the difference in regional
> accents is minimal, as it is in America. I'm not saying that there is no
> difference but compared to the UK there is little to complain about.
> (Stop me if you've heard this before) I once spent an afternoon with and
> elderly
> relative of a friend who lived 20 miles outside of Aberdeen. I could not
> make
> out more than one word in three, his dialect was so foreign. Then there
> are
> Yorkshire men who still "thee and thou" in normal speech. In Summerset the
> local
> English can be understood in Northern Spain. I was able to understand
> quite a
> few words written and spoken in the Netherlands, when I was there.
> English is a mongrel language at home but abroad there is less deviation
> IMO.
I heard that most Germans who come to Bavaria don't understand much, so me
with my 5 years of German at school didn't stand a chance!
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