^huh?
i was talking about her perfumes.
and i only have 1 mom.
dude take that back that was fuked up
Wow.
NANA is either on vacation or found a guy crazy enough to be her BF.
Turns out she grew up in Australia. So much for the went to school in India theory
WTF??
Igor’s mom was fucked by a Russian?
Then may be Igor is half Ukranian & half Russian.
*Shrug*, Not really. Like i said, tons like her who speak exactly the same from India.
Half of New Delhi speaks that way.
Check out the Oriental chick and the Bengali one. Both Indian, Mary Kom and Sen.
Both speak very differently. I doubt you can point out the origin with ‘patterns of speech’ or whatever
There are a few distinctive ‘accents’- The southern american drawl, scottish, welsh and irish and prob eastern european. I think you will find that for the rest of the world that is influenced by a no of other languages who learn english parallelly it would become very hard to say they have particular characteristics that pinpoint them to a location.
Case in point - An Indian chick from Australia who i was pretty sure was from New Delhi and 2 others were dead cert she was from England.
I’m sure you were. Yea, Mum, i don’t feel particularly inclined to recheck my post to see if the english is correct.
If you wish to point out mistakes i think you’ll find it’s
‘I wonder what she smells like’ not ‘I wonder what she smell like’
U wot M8 ?
You’re in space durrr.
You threw out a girl who grew up in Australia, spent most of her career on US TV, and then claimed she grew up in India and went to school in India. Sorry, but you’ve lost all credibility in this discussion.
Nah mate, I didn’t throw her up and i’m not trying to prove anything. I’m trying to show you that there are various ‘accents’ that are present throughout India and the fact that it is very hard to distinguish between people who learn english in parallel with their local dialect. Arabs, N.Africans, S.Asians- you won’t be able to tell the difference.
Like i said there are tons of people who speak like that but you are entitled to believe what you want to believe. Those along the other ones i posted where what ytube suggested according to the random search i did.
I do not feel the need to check where exactly she is from because like i said before there are many like her. If you wish to ignore the bigger picture over a technicality then be my guest.
I did find it hilarious that lxwarr declared within an instant that she was British educated which was infact complete BS which again goes back to my original point that it is quite hard but whatever floats your boat.
You are delusional. I agree that it’s tough to say where exactly someone is from. I mean I wouldn’t be able to tell if someone was from this Indian state or another but it’s easy to tell they’re from India. I couldn’t tell if someone was from Georgia or North Carolina but I could tell if they’re southern. I cannot say if she is British or Australian from her asking a total of 30 seconds of questions, but I knew she wasn’t American or Indian. If you want to be deaf and dumb so be it.
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If you say so. Your sample size is far too small i think.
I’m pretty sure i could run a ton of people by you and you wouldn’t be able to point out whether they were from India or Egypt or Saudi Arabia. The english from these type of reigons tends to be very interchangable.
But whatever you say bro
Let’s be honest. The internet and shared entertainment are blurring the lines of where people are from. Everyone in a given region/nation is watching the same shows on TV. Everyone in a given region/nation is listening to the same music. Now multiple nations are beginning to share entertainment because of the internet. Slowly accents are going to fade and blend but for now they’re here. Like we said before though the pronunciation isn’t the only key factor. The way you structure sentences, your cadence, your choice of vocabulary and many other factors are drawn into an accent.
A family friend is from Bombay. He lived there till college. He was educated at the British schools. He was a member of the country clubs where the Americans and British people would live while visiting. Does he sound like he’s Indian? No. Did his education and background play the biggest factor in this? Yes. So if you put a gun to my head and made me decide I would say he’s British and be wrong. Nothing is perfect but his circumstances are far outside the norm for society and therefore I SHOULD get that wrong. If you want to find the perfect examples of people that are different from what is to be expected that shows nothing. I’m not playing a game with you because it doesn’t prove anything except we have time to waste.
I feel like you have some chip on your shoulder about this because the side you’re arguing is so stupid only someone upset could possibily take it.
Of course the lady sounds Indian. Maybe she doesn’t to a super indian guy with a super indian accent but to an american, Hell yes from a mile away.
Best post in the whole thread
Wow, No idea what a ‘British school’ is but i think we’re done here.
That’s the whole gist of what iv’e been trying to tell you. Circumstances, Culture and Linguistic patterns are so varied within India that the way i speak english is very different compared to a oriental female from Mizoram or a Kashmiri man from Kashmir.
Our local dialects are not from the same scripts nor do we typically have the same ‘cinema’. We roll the alphabets in different ways, structure our sentences in different ways and the only Indians you have been exposed to are from a very specific subset. I doubt you have met a Bihari or a Assamese and i doubt you ever will.
There might be an ‘accent’ but there are so many ‘accents’ that you wouldn’t be able to tell quite a few as ‘Indian’. But i’m sure that picture doesn’t fit your ignorant beliefs so go ahead.
While there are many kinds of Indian accents, the truth is that they mostly sound the same to non-Indians… If you cannot realize this, then there is a lesson to be learned regarding being conscious of different cultural points of view. Minnesota accent and Southern California accent are very different, but I’m sure a non American will recognize both accents as “American”. I have a very specific accent from the country where I was born. It is understandable that a US person would not be able to identify this specific country based on my accent. However, they will likely be able to identify the general region where this country is located.
Take a minute, isildurr, and learn from the opportunity that you have to interact with people with different perspectives, rather than just say opinions are invalid if they are not shaped under the same circumstances as yours. You will be a better and smarter person as a result. Your comments in this thread and on others in AF are not reflective of a mature person who does not have more to learn and appreciate about the world and other cultures.