Doyaspeakadaenglish?

[Grace Oz]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080111/21/15hqu.html

[AussieTina]

Hmmmm can we have the same for doctors

I know I have trouble understanding them quite often, and I also have spent a lot of time explaining to patients what the doctor has said after the doctor has left as the the pt can't understand them either!!:grn:

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

I am surprised since I was informed that even asking someone to repeat what they said because you could not understand thier accent was in fact bigotry.

[Grace Oz]

I am surprised since I was informed that even asking someone to repeat what they said because you could not understand thier accent was in fact bigotry.

Yeah, that'd be right! People come to live in this country,knowing FULL WELL that ENGLISH is the spoken language, yet dare one of us Aussies seek clarification from a foreign speaking person, WE get labelled racist or bigoted! :icon_roll *sigh*

[AussieTina]

I am surprised since I was informed that even asking someone to repeat what they said because you could not understand thier accent was in fact bigotry.

Really!! Wow I never knew that!!

I always just say 'I'm really sorry but I am having trouble understanding your accent, can you repeat that please'. I have always been careful to be respectful and to have made sure people understand that I am not being rude, I just can't understand them.

But if that will land me as being labled as racist, I guess I'll just have to plead ignorance/deafness instead

[nyapa, RN]

This English test...is it verbal or written? Are they wanting to check people's general English skills? Or are they interested in knowledge re: meanings of terminology? What about legible writing skills?

I think actually it would be less discriminatory if all nurses sat it. Think about it. Those of us who speak English shouldn't have a problem, unless there IS a problem, and it doesn't matter what your background is.

[Grace Oz]

I got the impression it's ALL nurses.

I could be mistaken, but that's the impression I got.

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

This English test...is it verbal or written? Are they wanting to check people's general English skills? Or are they interested in knowledge re: meanings of terminology? What about legible writing skills?

I think actually it would be less discriminatory if all nurses sat it. Think about it. Those of us who speak English shouldn't have a problem, unless there IS a problem, and it doesn't matter what your background is.

I know there are some people born and bred here who are very hard to understand - Gympie is developing it's own accent for example.

What surprised me was that this was the EEO office's view of the comment because I had always been raised to understand that the only person in the world who spoke English without an accent was the Queen of England (hence the term "the Queen's English). EVERYONE else is deemed to speak it with some kind of accent.

I apologised to the person I had offended of course - simply because I see that as a simple way to make THEM feel better while costing me almost nothing (apologies are like smiles that way) but I still think I am right about everyone having SOME kind of accent.

[Grace Oz]

Oh yes! We in thee south have an accent for sure...... Dahlink! LOL

You say potarto ---- We say potato

You say tomarto ----- We say tomato

You sat potpleennt ---- We say potplaannt

You say Daanncce ------ We say Darnce

You say Fraannccee --------We say Fraaannce

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[katie258]

Man o man do ya think it will be written? will they take spelling and puntuation into account? Oh boy just when I thought I was finally into nursing proper and I get thrown out cause I can't spell!! That'd be right!! LOL!!

[nyapa, RN]

ROFL Katie! Ooh, do you think that puter shortened words such as 'ROFL' and smilies will eventually be accepted into the lingo?

[katie258]

Hmm, I think some oddball words are in the new oxford. My sons certainly don't speak the same language I do.