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(1) Is a goshdarned furriner authorized to judge such nuances in the first place?
(2) My memory of exactly how annoying accented English is fades as my distance from my immigrant-filled workplace increases. But it is my impression that any language-based variation is drowned out by proficiency-based variation. I can say that 80-percent-intelligible Indian*-accented English < 90-percent-intelligible Cantonese-accented or Vietnamese-accented English < 100-percent-intelligible Sri Lankan*–accented English. But that doesn't give any information regarding the languages.
*Yes, I know these aren't languages, but I don't know the actual native language of the speaker.
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