in my experience, you do get a lot more respect if you use your best telephone voice!
no.
i just speak; my accent is not strong these days, but i still use dialect.
people sometimes find it difficult to understand.
when you are talking to the director of your company, what needs to come out of your mouth is... good morning director... not... alright, how's it going??!!!
it's hard for some people to understand, and some people may look down on me and think i'm "common."
i've never really picked up the accent.
i do, but please lower your tone and speak more slowly.
use it in my place of work but it's not what i would call an official environment
it's horrible.
because of serious types, people think wrong things about liverpool.
it is sometimes hard for people to understand, especially when we talk fast.
i'm a teacher working in another part of the country - the kids wouldn't understand me!
i speak in a scouse way, but i never use slang, even in an unofficial environment.
not completely, because some people won't understand.
i don't have a strong accent? and i was taught to speak correctly! working for the company i work for, it would not be acceptable! too common! snobby, i know! but that is how it really is here!
i might have some dialect, but i can't really hear it. my father has worked all over the world, so his dialect has been much more international. and i also live in norway.
scouse dialect changes all the time; people who are unfamiliar with it don't always understand.