Wednesday, 26 March 2014

What is with the Accent, Dude?

"And yes I am getting a little annoyed with that speech. Why do you want to bark like a bitch from London when you are in Shanivar Wada, Pune?"
Sal was pissed off because a girl just spoke to her with this accent which kind of sounded like she was struggling to get through. This girl (name not to be mentioned) is born and brought up in India. She was out of country for a few months, note only for a few months and she came back with this weird accent. I do not understand how can a few months transform the speech you have been learning for years altogether.
"Haha! Sal you are going to get a lot of these. I met this guy once, who tried to talk like
'Hey babe watsa, you lookin b-u-tifool'
His accent was totally made up and turning off",
Pia was staring at the girl clicking pictures of the fort and pretending to be mesmerized by the view she must have been seeing since birth.
Somehow people have started to have this thing in their mind that they could impress others with a foreign accent. I mean, seriously, they are not impressed and in reality they hardly get a thing you are trying to say. For people who are born and brought up abroad or are living there for quite a few years, the accent comes naturally. Why fake something you do not clearly possess?
"I know, I had this interview with an author. Not only did he have this 'good for nothing' attitude but he also spoke in this UK accent. I wish his books too had that good language", I totally agreed with Sal and Pia.
Right from a few celebreties to some normal kids next door, everybody is leaving the fancy 'Indo English' accent for some fake one. This is like trying to change yourself to fit in an invisible and cool group of wanna be's. Or maybe it is just some boring people like us who still love putting down 'yaar' in the end of every English Statement.
This blog post is solely fictitious.. there are no people in my life with any speech defects.. the ones mentioned do not relate to real life :-P
- Anvi Mehta

3 comments:

  1. I know..I met quite a few of them with the heavily accented things. I mean, if you stayed for a period of three to five years in US and UK, I can understand but few months..it sucks.

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  2. hahah .. It happened to me today itself .. called this club owner in Goa, and he was all yo-yo accent and I could hardly understand anything .. But like every other time, I just pretend to understand and continue the conversation, leaving the other confused as well :P

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