[Magdalen] Enjoying a colleague's accent

[ROGER STOKES]

I would have rated comprehensibility of speech pretty high among the requirements of a border guard. If a native speaker cannot understand the guard what chance does a foreigner have? 


     On Friday, 19 June 2015, 15:33, Zephonites--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
   

 Roger
 
Maddy (who is Swiss) went to the Swiss German border and a new Swiss border 
 guard asked her a question. She looked at him and said "Wie  bitte".  He 
repeated it and she had to get the German border  guard to translate between 
two Swiss!!
 
The Swiss border guard came form Valais which is a notoriously difficult  
accent to understand.
 
Blessings
Martin
 
 
In a message dated 19/06/2015 13:16:20 GMT Summer Time,  
roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com writes:

The  Glasgow accent is notorious, certainly in its broader forms.  I have  
heard that even Glaswegians can have difficulty with it at  times.
Roger