Samsara,

I was not stressing on having a similar accent as Americans, Brits, or Aussies. I wanted to debate on the misuse of Pronunciation of the letters that are there in Devanagari, For most of us i think the reason why we cannot pronounce the letters correctly is because we are accustomed to bad pronunciation from our own Devanagari. You are correct no one should  feel ashamed for saying "stoopid" vs "Stewpid". But sometimes you may run into a position that expects you to say "Stewpid" and not "Stoopid" in that case saying it right pays more that saying it wrong. Other than that we are only trying to see if we have a fun/informational debate on linguistics.

MagicMushroom,

Your comment leans more towards Wrong English than Accent or  bad pronunciation.

Midwestdude,

I understand what you are saying. We do have some sort of " Manpari" in our spoken language. Not that the other languages don't have it either, for eg: Americans saying Gonna and Wanna. But in our case it seems that we go the " manpari" route excessively. In additions sometimes we do not even know the original word, for eg Chabahil for Chabel.



As a general comment, i would say that the "manpari" in our own first language also reflects the "manpari" we do in the second language we try to learn.


Some more words that are often heard differently

Work/ Ork

Year/Ear

Yatch/ At

Own/Won

One/ Own

One/Won


Sid