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Why linguistic competence gets questioned despite fluency

I speak perfect English but customers keep asking me to repeat myself and complaining they can't understand my accent.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Colonial auditory expectations render certain voices inherently illegible regardless of actual communication clarity.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”

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