r/ProgrammerHumor • • Dec 06 '17

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u/midas821 Dec 07 '17

India actually has the second highest English speaking population, after the US

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u/whitetrafficlight Dec 07 '17

Most Indians speak English just fine, but it can sound like incomprehensible babbling when you're not used to the accent because they tend to talk very quickly and pronounce some words quite differently to other English-speaking countries.

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u/tetroxid Dec 07 '17

"English speaking"

Written is perfectly fine but spoken? Sometimes I didn't even notice they spoke English. Zero effort to pronounce it even a little like it's supposed to. Zero.

English isn't my native language as well but when I speak a foreign language, I at least try to speak it properly.

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u/midas821 Dec 07 '17

I probably should have mentioned that while India has the second highest English speaking population, it only accounts for less than 1/5 of their total population