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A Banner Week for Right Wing Xenophobia

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Aceofwhat?4/30/2010 1:53:47 pm PDT

re: #624 Obdicut

Actually, you were very clearly painting the accent as a potential comprehensibility problem, and saying that a thick accent was at some point a problem. You were not simply saying that an accent matters.

And again, I still have no clue why, when I said that there weren’t any standards, you told me I should read an article that said there weren’t any standards.

ah. ok. no, i asked you to read the article because the section you quoted wasn’t about the thick accent. i wanted you to see the part i was talking about.

but a bill that doesn’t contain standards is different from a bill that doesn’t specify its goal. the goal here is not to remove teachers with mild accents, otherwise it would have said that.

whether we trust them to pursue said goal nobly is a different question, and my answer is no.