[ErnBatavia]

You want really, really strange English, try having a conversation with a South African....you know they're speaking the same tongue, but you can't understand a word of it.

[Mike Bates]

I have the same problem with some Irishmen, Barry. Hard to say where one word ends and the other starts.

[sinclair]

I once worked with a guy from Trinidad on a riverboat. He was the cook. I had been on the boat for about 3 weeks and hadn't been able to make heads or tails of anything he said the whole time. Then one morning at breakfast he said something and I shouted out "Damn I understood that!" Everybody at the table lol.

I worked on that boat for two and a half years and got to see every new guy on there go through the same experience. Three weeks of "Huh, what'd he say, huh, huh.", to a glimmer of recognition to actually conversing with him. It was a trip for sure.

[pepperdog]

Ditto some Australian accents. I once met a man from Australia, couldn't understand 90% of what he said--and I was told he was speaking English. Of course he probably couldn't understand me either.