[Protagoras]

JFK used to say "Cuber" refering to that little island nation. Did that make him an idiot too?

Nah, it's not his fault that he grew up with idiots who couldn't speak english. He was an idiot for completely different reasons.

[newcats]

Nah, it's not his fault that he grew up with idiots who couldn't speak english.

So which regional dialect would YOU say is a sign of intellegence?
As a student of accents/dialects, the dialect that a person uses is not a very good standard for judging intellegence. Why some people would think that saying "Nah" shows a lower than average grasp of the English language. :)