Oops I lost My Accent

[lonewolf]

And yeah I never noticed an oriental with a fake accent

that is more coz they cant fake it! our Indian brethren are experts tho

My best friend is a Taiwanese, and she learnt most of her English after coming to the US. I also have many Chinese friends who starting learning every word of English after landing in the US. They speak English the way they are taught in the English 101 language class in their American university, and they wouldn't have any need to fake it.



My employer was amused by the way other Indians used to speak to him with an exaggerated fake accent. He asked me a few times why they had to struggle and speak differently when they talk to a white person. And oh, he'd introduce me to others by saying "Meet A*, he's the only one who speaks British English".

[SimarikSmokin]

If i was a Bug i would be A LadyBug~ though i hate bugs i think Lady Bugs and ummmmmmmmm a Garden Snake are oks! i think i lost my head! sorry

[oneminutecooler]

If i was a Bug i would be A LadyBug~ though i hate bugs i think Lady Bugs and ummmmmmmmm a Garden Snake are oks! i think i lost my head! sorry

Eww. Lady bugs were my joy in elementary and middle school....now they are just plain gross (I had a bad incident with one.....If you do not want to barf, do not ask)

[asli_badmash]

If i was a Bug i would be A LadyBug~ though i hate bugs i think Lady Bugs and ummmmmmmmm a Garden Snake are oks! i think i lost my head! sorry

Eww. Lady bugs were my joy in elementary and middle school....now they are just plain gross (I had a bad incident with one.....If you do not want to barf, do not ask)

You ate one...



It happens in Hyderabad all the time. All the hotels which serve biryani drop in some bugs, spiders and roaches for taste. And boy they are yuuummmm :drool:

[oneminutecooler]

If i was a Bug i would be A LadyBug~ though i hate bugs i think Lady Bugs and ummmmmmmmm a Garden Snake are oks! i think i lost my head! sorry

Eww. Lady bugs were my joy in elementary and middle school....now they are just plain gross (I had a bad incident with one.....If you do not want to barf, do not ask)

You ate one...

It happens in Hyderabad all the time. All the hotels which serve biryani drop in some bugs, spiders and roaches for taste. And boy they are yuuummmm :drool:

ewwww...close though...unfortunately

[azazel]

i lost my head!

i thot it was only the accent

[malakpetmasala]

And yeah I never noticed an oriental with a fake accent

that is more coz they cant fake it! our Indian brethren are experts tho

My best friend is a Taiwanese, and she learnt most of her English after coming to the US. I also have many Chinese friends who starting learning every word of English after landing in the US. They speak English the way they are taught in the English 101 language class in their American university, and they wouldn't have any need to fake it.

My employer was amused by the way other Indians used to speak to him with an exaggerated fake accent. He asked me a few times why they had to struggle and speak differently when they talk to a white person. And oh, he'd introduce me to others by saying "Meet A*, he's the only one who speaks British English".

so u a pom?

[CtrlAltDel]

i think i lost my head!

the penny drops...

[lonewolf]

so u a pom?

Nope.. I lived in Hyd most of my life and then came to the US... never been to the UK.

[malakpetmasala]

so u a pom?

Nope.. I lived in Hyd most of my life and then came to the US... never been to the UK.

then how come u have an english/ or a brit accent?

[Alexis]

so u a pom?

Nope.. I lived in Hyd most of my life and then came to the US... never been to the UK.

then how come u have an english/ or a brit accent?

Cuz he lived in Hyd before, thats how he has an English accent.

I guess, anyway........what say Lonewolf?

[malakpetmasala]

so u a pom?

Nope.. I lived in Hyd most of my life and then came to the US... never been to the UK.

then how come u have an english/ or a brit accent?

Cuz he lived in Hyd before, thats how he has an English accent.
I guess, anyway........what say Lonewolf?

thing i dont understand is how can some one live in hyderanad and have an english accent? Unless he worked for one of the call centres servicing english customers.

well, anyway some still please educate me on this.



Alright, let me put it this way, if lonewolf has an english accent, then what accent does Prince charles have?

[malakpetmasala]

Anyway, this reminds me of this guy i met last year. he came from vishkapatnam to Sydney to work on his master s degree. i met him accidently, and i was really to see him have a very very strong yankee accent. At that point of time i did nt know where he was from, by his accent, i assumed that he was from the states, in the due course of the converation we had, i asked him as to which part of the states he was from and he gave me the biggest surprise of my life. He said to me that he s never been to the states before.

that was a shocker. well, out of curiousity, i asked him as to how he got the sccent to whcch he replied, hollywood.



thats when i realised the influence of hollywood. The new religion.

[lonewolf]

so u a pom?

Nope.. I lived in Hyd most of my life and then came to the US... never been to the UK.

then how come u have an english/ or a brit accent?

Cuz he lived in Hyd before, thats how he has an English accent.
I guess, anyway........what say Lonewolf?

Hey, my professor used to refer to me as the Indian guy who speaks British English, not as the guy who speaks with a British accent



I guess he observed that the other Indian guys were putting on an unreal American accent and were trying to impress him by using their newly learnt American teenage slangs. Obviously he was pissed when he expected a simple reply to some of his questions.



And, I've been speaking only English all my life; so, many people don't believe I am from Hyderabad.

[lonewolf]

There's another Hyderabadi guy I know in my former university. While others used to fake American accents while speaking with Americans, this guy went one step further. He would put on a fake Chinese accent while speaking with our Chinese classmates.

[Alexis]

There's another Hyderabadi guy I know in my former university. While others used to fake American accents while speaking with Americans, this guy went one step further. He would put on a fake Chinese accent while speaking with our Chinese classmates.

Woah! Thats just too much.

[lonewolf]

There's another Hyderabadi guy I know in my former university. While others used to fake American accents while speaking with Americans, this guy went one step further. He would put on a fake Chinese accent while speaking with our Chinese classmates.

Woah! Thats just too much.

Seriously! I would actually wait for their project meetings in the lab so that I could sit nearby and watch this guy talk to his Chinese project partners.

[Alexis]

There's another Hyderabadi guy I know in my former university. While others used to fake American accents while speaking with Americans, this guy went one step further. He would put on a fake Chinese accent while speaking with our Chinese classmates.

Woah! Thats just too much.

Seriously! I would actually wait for their project meetings in the lab so that I could sit nearby and watch this guy talk to his Chinese project partners.

Hes taking the "try to relate to your peers" deal a bit too seriously! Hes taken it a step forward!

[malakpetmasala]

There's another Hyderabadi guy I know in my former university. While others used to fake American accents while speaking with Americans, this guy went one step further. He would put on a fake Chinese accent while speaking with our Chinese classmates.

thats awesome dude.

even i try to put on a lebanese accent when i talk to my wog mates.

.

the chicks are pretty impressed by that

[mlakpetmasala]

There's another Hyderabadi guy I know in my former university. While others used to fake American accents while speaking with Americans, this guy went one step further. He would put on a fake Chinese accent while speaking with our Chinese classmates.

Woah! Thats just too much.

Seriously! I would actually wait for their project meetings in the lab so that I could sit nearby and watch this guy talk to his Chinese project partners.

Hes taking the "try to relate to your peers" deal a bit too seriously! Hes taken it a step forward!

if u want to know someone, u ll have to be one of them.

hehehe

[azazel]

There's another Hyderabadi guy I know in my former university. While others used to fake American accents while speaking with Americans, this guy went one step further. He would put on a fake Chinese accent while speaking with our Chinese classmates.

only a genius from our town could've done that. i am so proud of being a Hyderabadi

[Sharjeel]

if u want to know someone, u ll have to be one of them.
hehehe

Actually makes a lot of sense.

Or maybe it is the other way round; if you know someone nice enough, you unwittingly change to their style.

[San]

Wonder if faking accents is about feeling inferior? Being identified as a creature from developing world as opposed to the developed & powerful & etc etc etc



Thinking about it Indian accent is made fun of (British TV)but other Asian countries seem to get away...why o why is that

[marko]

Wonder if faking accents is about feeling inferior? Being identified as a creature from developing world as opposed to the developed & powerful & etc etc etc

Thinking about it Indian accent is made fun of (British TV)but other Asian countries seem to get away...why o why is that

well, if you stay in a place long enough it's natural that you'll pick up the accent, even if just to make yourself understood. if i went around over here talking like i do back home nobody would understand me.



as for the Brits making fun of Indian accents, they do that to everyone, Chinese, Pakistani, Australian, Japanese, Irish, etc.

[Shajeel]

well, if you stay in a place long enough it's natural that you'll pick up the accent, even if just to make yourself understood. if i went around over here talking like i do back home nobody would understand me.

Exaktly! I used to sometimes move around with the northie peeple (Delhi, J&k) in college, and i picked up some of their mannerisms, so that when I spoke to a northie, my accent and some words changed like saying 'boliyo' instead of 'bol do', and using a lot more Urdu, etc, etc.

as for the Brits making fun of Indian accents, they do that to everyone, Chinese, Pakistani, Australian, Japanese, Irish, etc.

British comedy roks!