By "native english" UK speaker, I guess you mean BBC English? You're going to find glaswegian, scouse or other accents from all over the map there, but not BBC English.
CJK area engrish is fun, and sometimes quite comprehensible. So is singlish (you just have to add "lah" to just about every sentence) :) For sheer unintelligiblity, talk to someone with a thick new zealand accent (I had the fun experience of listening to half a dozen new zealanders deliver a presentation .. and having heard just about all these accents below, I'd say NZ takes the cake, any day) Deepa Mohan wrote: > Indeed I tend to agree with Rishab; I think that there are already many > dialects of English in existence, one often incomprehensible to the > speakers of another. I can make myself understood in the northern states > of the US but the way English is spoken in the southern States defeats > me completely. I have great trouble understanding the local English in > Singapore or Malaysia, and I see Afrikaaners having a lot of difficulty > in India.So probably the native English (read, UK) speaker would find > hesself at a disadvantage elsewhere.
