There actually is a black accent. 95% of the time when I receive a call from someone I can tell whether or not they are white or black without even asking. Truth is truth. There is such a thing as black accent.
Barak must be in that 5%.
Indiana Underground Plant Protection Service (Holey Moley.."Call Before You Dig) musta changed their hiring practices a couple years ago.
One can now actually understand what questions the girls are asking. They were local folks before mind you, but some were almost impossible to understand
We're talking about precise locating of underground utilities that can cost millions of dollars in damages if there is any miscommunication between the contractor and the locaters.
You can still detect an accent with a few, but precise English is now used.
I agree about the accent. I can usually tell a Spanish, French or German accent as well. In addition there is Black dialect. When I first moved into a large inner city neighborhood 40 years ago, I could hardly understand what a lot of people were saying. Now, I usually can.