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[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's not racism to acknowledge that accents can have a major negative impact on effective communication and design a product to address the issue.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Definitely true. We had a German professor with an essentially incomprehensible accent teaching calculus at our college. Basically everyone had to learn it from the textbook.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... most complaints about accents in customer service agents have nothing to do with understanding them.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What are you basing that statement on?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago