
Originally Posted by
Geoduck I could really care less if someone wants to say "zat", because I can understand it just fine.
Oh, well... I've got a "day time" key-card. Sometimes, once a 2-3 months I need to come to work at night. First time I needed that I asked my supervisor whether he could borrow me his card. It took him several minutes to understand that I was asking him for a card, not for a car, and me to understand why borrowing what I was asking for was such a problem.
I've been living in US for 6 years now, I knew English much better than majority of Russian immigrants to begin with and my accent is slighter than accent of 60-70% of us.
It does matter.