Posted by: sidster June 12, 2006
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When i got fired from my dishwashing job 10 years ago, my boss told me " u are fired". And i asked my boss where the fire was. I was ready to put the fire out with my dishwashing hose. But kids these days. they get here at 18 with a 10 years watching experience of" friends, simpson, hollywood blockbusters, MTV, vh1, espn, and in some cases CNN too. So these kids tend to have less or no accent at all. When i was a kid i watched amrish puri, kader khan, Mithun, amitav and all them folks...i still dont have any accent in hindi. I can speak kader khan without an accent. lol I dont really care about the accent on how its said but when a fellow gorkhey says " porlum" for problem. albarkarki for albuqerque, reeletip for relatives, and devlop for develop. It just drives me nuts. It is strange that we did have all the sounds available in our language but we were never taught to say words right. Like raswa and dirgas were there but we were never taught to say them right. That is why a gorkhay cannot diffrentiate betn "sid" and "seed". Most gorkheys dont know how to differentiate just the letter "s" and "sh". Some pronounce "see" and "she" the same way. If u notice even ppl with different accent will at least make the correct sound for the letters even if the rythm of saying the word is different.
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