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"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."

- Terry Pratchett

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I would say it does the needful.

On one single occasion I said this at work without thinking about it. I'd been working exclusively with Indian devs for months and it just slipped out.

Thankfully it was taken well.

Funny enough, I’m from south GA. But when I speak on conference calls to customers, I try to speak without my natural accent especially since many non native speakers especially who aren’t in the US seem to struggle to understand my natural accent.

I was using my normal “consultant voice” with some clients in Tennessee and as I started talking to them, I naturally without thinking started being less careful and throwing some “y’all’s” and southern twang came out.

I heard second hand that they thought I was mocking them. I had to explain I was born and raised in South Georgia and that was my natural voice.

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