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Old 6th Jul 2007, 07:54
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Hunter58

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Gringolandish unfortunately has very little audible resemblance of english. It might be written alike, but everytime I hear it spoken I have trouble following it, especially when distorted by electronics and transmitted by VHF wavelenghts. Adding extraordinary speed to gringolandish does not make it better. I have, interestingly, met an enourmous amount of people in the US who were continously demonstrating their ability to speak extremely clear and understandable english, but somehow these people almost never seem to make it into the professions of pilot and controller.

Using plain, simple, relatively slowly spoken ICAO phraseology might of course cure these problems, but it is much too difficult for 'the natives' as it seems. Far simpler to tell the others to please learn all different slangs of Gringolandish.

English is an official ICAO languague, but gringolandish is NOT! So let us see how many people up north are able to pass the ICAO madatory test.
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