@mekkaokereke Love this thread! I'm also reminded about my experience (as a "Non-Anglo" person) in project work with people from across Europe and our conversations in "European English", with lots of our "native" words, phrases and grammar interjected into English. It made total sense for "us" (Germans, French, Polish, Hungarians etc) but the English were always puzzled. We sounded both too posh/complicated and too wrong for them at the same time.
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