Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)

Martin D. Pay wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:17:36 +0300, "Snowbird"
mangled uncounted electrons thus:
Anyway, Englishmen who speak perfect German are even rarer.

grin You all overlook the fact that English speaking perfect
English are also extremely rare...

Martin D. Pay
Yes, I'm English - and I frequently wonder at the atrocities
perpetrated on our mother-tongue by my fellow citizens...

So what is the "Perfect English" way to pronounce "tomato"?
Is "ain't" considered a word in "Perfect English"?
For that matter, which accent is "Perfect English"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiona...glish_speakers
http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/...ds/Sounds.html
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/

And just who defines "Perfect English" and what is their e-mail address?

(Big wink on all the above.)

Wolfgang Schwanke writes:

Americans who speak perfect English are rare too.

They speak it far better than Germans, for obvious reasons.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Wolfgang Schwanke writes:

Americans who speak perfect English are rare too.

They speak it far better than Germans, for obvious reasons.

Not obvious to me. Every german I know speaks perfect english, although with
an accent.

El Maximo writes:

Not obvious to me. Every german I know speaks perfect english, although with
an accent.

I hardly know any Germans who speak perfect English.

Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote in
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writes:


and they all speak perfect english

Germans who speak perfect English are extremely rare.


Americans who speak perfect English are rare too.

English who can speak perfect English (let alone spell it) are getting
pretty rare too.

T.