Since when is your level of english tied to your country of origin?
I said having a caster without accent LOOKS (or sounds?) more professional. Is your boss a professional football commentator?Only reading that sentence just killed off about half my brain cells.
Native = more professional? Are you Viktor Orban on a smurf account?
Guess I'll have to tell that joke to my Serbian boss tomorrow 11111111
I said having a caster without accent LOOKS (or sounds?) more professional. Is your boss a professional football commentator?
Since when is your level of english tied to your country of origin?
Besides the entire community knows all streamers accents anyway.
Thing is there are people who are not bothered by a foreign accent and there are at least just as many people that really are bothered by a foreign accent.
If you put a native english speaker in the casting booth, you know that at least no one is going to be bothered by the accent of the caster.
If you put a non-native english speaker in the casting booth you run the risk of alienating those casual viewers who don't like to hear foreign accents.
Are we really going to debate whether native english speakers are more proficient at english than non-native english speakers? Of course they are. How would they not? They speak english since they were born! It's only natural they are better at it.
nobody dislikes native English speakers.
nobody dislikes native English speakers.
What do you even mean by "foreign"? The AoE community is overwhelmingly not from English speaking countries, so this only makes sense from your own narrow "Anglo-centric" point of view.
@MaSmOrRa
Why I as a community member should give a **** about anyone of those people who are bothered by foreign accents to the point where they tune off.
i'm sorry, but what are you even saying? The majority of professional esport is built upon professional casters with all around great speaking and presenting skills, escape is trying to raise the ladder, instead of appreciating that you are trying to push us back to "we do what we want" situation, which really does not have the intent to actually represent an organisation.Why do we care some people get bothered? People always complain about everything anyway. I can imagine some british people might get bothered by an american accent and vice versa.
And about professionalism, most universities in the world offer english lectures by non-native english speakers so it has nothing to do with professionalism imo. Its all about fluency.
Sadly, the world doesn't revolve around you though.
I'm sure you don't care about other people's feelings towards the stream. Me neither.
But then again, we are not the ones spending 100 hours a week working on the streams to make them as appealing as possible to as many people as possible. I have the feeling those who have all that work do care.
If becoming an esport means giving up on non native casters. Id rather aoe2 stay in relative obscurity for the remainder of its days