Lately I have fallen into the habit of watching too many videos. It is good see a variety of world opinions offered on these videos. But sometimes I wonder why the video needs to be a video at all -- there is nothing to look at. It is just a talking head, and it talks with such a thick accent that it is hard work to listen to it.
It is getting so that I simply turn off the video after 5 seconds if the accent is too strong. Australian accents barely count as 'English'. They are more than muddled -- they are painful to listen to. Even English accents can get annoying because of their inability to pronounce the letter r. We won't even talk about New Yawk accents.
It is funny how some accents seem quaint and fun to listen to. For instance, Irish and Scottish accents work like that. Some southern USA accents are pleasant to listen to.
I wonder if many of these terrible speakers can write and read English quite well? If so, then why shouldn't they write blogs instead of making television-like videos? (Or is it that they don't know how to type?)
Where did the world get the notion that 'half-speaking' English qualifies them to get up and make a speech in public or create a video channel? Hopefully closed captions will become more common.
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