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Post #23,355
by boxley
1/7/02 9:22:01 AM
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New I have no trouble with Indian Accents or chinese. You guys
remind me of an American Tourist on a bus in Montreal hollering about all the disrepectful Canadians who were speaking french instead of english around him. To understand someones accent requires the ability to listen, carefully. Most folks think that if it doesnt sound like they talk listen less not more. and complain about it.
thanx,
bill
My Dreams aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
Post #23,391
by inthane-chan
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1/7/02 3:15:11 PM
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New On accents...
I have no problem with them, since I know my own english is kind of strange...

I had two Japanese friends that I used as a perfect comparison. One of them had PERFECT grammer and pronunciation, but you could tell she wasn't a native speaker in about a minute of talking to her.

The other had a horrendous accent, and her grammar wasn't all that hot, but you'd forget after about thirty seconds - because she had mastered the slang, and sounded like somebody born here, instead of there.

Go figure. :)
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
     The Chinese are coming, the Chinese are coming! - (a6l6e6x) - (32) - Jan. 5, 2002, 12:31:51 PM EST
         I'd better learn Chinese - (nking) - Jan. 5, 2002, 12:38:32 PM EST
         Simple as A-B-C - (kmself) - (29) - Jan. 5, 2002, 05:44:38 PM EST
             Yes, a high wall indeed. - (Andrew Grygus) - (28) - Jan. 5, 2002, 11:32:38 PM EST
                 Speaking of becoming less Chinese - (marlowe) - (27) - Jan. 6, 2002, 05:33:18 PM EST
                     Chinese and Indians - (nking) - (8) - Jan. 6, 2002, 10:47:24 PM EST
                         Now's the time to give him a call. - (Meerkat) - Jan. 6, 2002, 10:57:48 PM EST
                         Interesting. - (wharris2) - (6) - Jan. 7, 2002, 01:49:46 AM EST
                             Re: Interesting. - (pwhysall) - Jan. 7, 2002, 02:57:10 AM EST
                             Have you wondered whether the fault is with you? - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Jan. 7, 2002, 05:28:21 PM EST
                                 Could very well be. - (wharris2) - (3) - Jan. 7, 2002, 06:14:30 PM EST
                                     Being Canadian may help - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 8, 2002, 04:45:47 PM EST
                                     Or if you'd seen more artsy furrin sub-titled films, even... -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Jan. 8, 2002, 05:23:13 PM EST
                                         Those artsy fartsy things? - (wharris2) - Jan. 8, 2002, 08:18:37 PM EST
                     Interesting - and totally Politically Incorrect . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - Jan. 6, 2002, 10:57:02 PM EST
                         that does not have to do with race - (boxley) - (4) - Jan. 7, 2002, 09:18:31 AM EST
                             Yep. - (admin) - Jan. 7, 2002, 10:00:09 AM EST
                             Not so quick . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Jan. 7, 2002, 11:15:05 AM EST
                                 Remonds me of a paragraph from little big man - (boxley) - (1) - Jan. 7, 2002, 11:22:24 AM EST
                                     Whites, Injuns, and Watches - that reminds me... - (CRConrad) - Jan. 7, 2002, 12:49:07 PM EST
                     That's not so much "better" English the Han are speaking... - (CRConrad) - (9) - Jan. 7, 2002, 08:39:47 AM EST
                         Perfectly correct Hindu English? - (marlowe) - (8) - Jan. 7, 2002, 03:52:52 PM EST
                             Do you mean Hinglish? - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 7, 2002, 04:50:26 PM EST
                             Still symptoms of the same phenomenon, I'd guess. - (CRConrad) - (6) - Jan. 7, 2002, 04:57:00 PM EST
                                 Effort to learn a language. - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Jan. 7, 2002, 05:12:56 PM EST
                                     To say it in Oxlish, "Ed Zachary"! :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - Jan. 8, 2002, 05:23:56 PM EST
                                     One was enuf (WTF happened?); someone admidelete this please -NT - (CRConrad) - Jan. 8, 2002, 05:25:30 PM EST
                                 I think it's partially the natural Chinese manner - (marlowe) - (2) - Jan. 7, 2002, 06:10:17 PM EST
                                     There's another aspect to that one, I think. - (Ashton) - (1) - Jan. 7, 2002, 07:05:01 PM EST
                                         Yeah, like I said. - (marlowe) - Jan. 7, 2002, 08:09:23 PM EST
                     I have no trouble with Indian Accents or chinese. You guys - (boxley) - (1) - Jan. 7, 2002, 09:22:01 AM EST
                         On accents... - (inthane-chan) - Jan. 7, 2002, 03:15:11 PM EST
         Take more then 5-10 years - (JayMehaffey) - Jan. 5, 2002, 10:27:55 PM EST

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