ASER1NE Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 I think the butchering of language comes down to Ignorance or Dicrimination. Even of our own language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILOTSMYBRAIN Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Puerto Ricans always say "likededed" instead of "liked." hahaha couldn't be more on point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawood Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 or whenever they refer to the ground outside, they'll be like "yo get that can off the floor bee". but that's not an accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madsencarl Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 i hear everyone in canadia has an american accent. well, obviously not everyone, but most people. i also found it very unsettling when i heard an asian with a full on american accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russell jones Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 i hear everyone in canadia has an american accent. well, obviously not everyone, but most people. i also found it very unsettling when i heard an asian with a full on american accent. No, no, people in Canada have their own accent. Maybe it's hard for foreigners to hear, but, trust me, it's way different than American accents. Just listen to them say "about," it sounds like "aboot." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 i love different accents, listening to peoples accents is mad comical. And Americans butcher Arabic, trust me, People don't realize that an accent can change the whole meaning of an Arabic word or even elongating a syllable or shortening it can change the whole meaning from a statement to a question or worse. My favorite is Arabs who move to the south and catch a southern drawl, I know an egyption who sounds half Hosni Mubarak and half Boss Hog from Porky's I heard that George Bush senior purposely pronounced Saddam Hussein's name like 'sattim' instead of more like 'suhdom'... apparently he did it because the change of accent made the word mean something like 'donkey fucker'. Also, one of my friends back in Alabama had an adopted sister from Korea but she came to the US when she was a baby so, by age 3 she had a FULL ON 'southern belle' accent. Instead of 'button' she said 'buh-in' in a way that practically dripped honeysuckle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawood Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 i hear everyone in canadia has an american accent. well, obviously not everyone, but most people. i also found it very unsettling when i heard an asian with a full on american accent. I always wondered why I meet so many asians with names like Bob, Bruce, Jack or Steve . It always struck me as weird because most people move to America from other countries keep their names of ethnic origin, but 1st or 2nd generation asians name their kids with the most apple pie american sounding names possible. just an observation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelofdeath Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 i have an uncle (through marriage) from georgia that is taiwanese. he speaks poor english as it is, but with a slow thick georgia low country drawl. they call him the 'country foreigner.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 I always wondered why I meet so many asians with names like Bob, Bruce, Jack or Steve. When I was in 7th grade my Kung-fu teacher's little brother came to our school (he was in 6th). He had been to Kung-fu quite a few times and I knew him as 'Tom'. In fact, I knew all of Ming's family so I was kinda suprised when the yearbook came out and Tom wasn't in it, but there was some kid named Dug Tran... looked like Tom's twin brother. Swear to god it took me like 3 weeks to figure out that they were the same kid. I was all confused about howcome I'd never met Dug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawood Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 yeah, man, It just always trips me out when I meet an asian cat and expect him to say his name is " Ptouyung Choung or something, but he's like "Hi, I'm steve". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chie Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 My teachers have PhDs and MBAs and still poor in English... Well, since countries are embracing globalization, the people are trying to embrace the American culture as well. To be accepted in the majority, you have to be one of them, and those american names are easy to pronounce... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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