Comments on: American Babel

By: Mistress of Spices

Mistress of Spices — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:58:15 +0000

Its not the accent rather its that the relationship with the native place we have. We tend to speak as per demand of the environment... the accent can not be percfectionalised untill the person is pron to that particular environment cuz we human are very fst learner...

After decades of living in a place still one sometime does not lose their accent, more often than not.

By: a girl

a girl — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:51:49 +0000

“well there are different types of indian english accents, as there are american english and british english accents. some are considered more appealing than others. i’m not sure middle america will ever fully accept the apu-type indian accent, the same way that many americans with strong southern accents or other strong regional accents, or australians with really strong aussie accents or brits with non-bbc accents are forced to or choose to change their accents to generic american accents. the same way that many foreigners singing in english choose the generic american pop english accent instead of their own nation’s version of english. ” Oh my God! This is the stupidest statement I have ever heard in my life. Nobody in the world (besides uSA) want to or has to switch to an American Accent. (It’s called Gereral American accent not generis , by the way). Those forigners that you believ they have an GA accent , actually they don’t, but when they sing, you can’t hear their native accent. The only people who are worried about accents and don’t accept foreign accents are Americans. No where in the world you’ll find something similar.In Europe nobody acres about accents.Do you believe they would say about a French guy that she has an accent? No… Why is that you compair everything to US made?

By: Amritanshu

Amritanshu — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:46:28 +0000

Its not the accent rather its that the relationship with the native place we have. We tend to speak as per demand of the environment... the accent can not be percfectionalised untill the person is pron to that particular environment cuz we human are very fst learner...

By: Vardaan

Vardaan — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:48:09 +0000

I have i question to ask how come an italian accent (..any italian) sound sexy to any one!!!??

.....Typically the audience use to follow the reports, news they heard or read thru media

By: Pardesi Gori

Pardesi Gori — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:16:20 +0000

Amitabh -

Regarding your following comments;

"It was 4:30 in the morning, I had just come home semi-drunk after a night out (yes like a dork I checked SM before crashing off to sleep) and that was probably the best I could do at that time. I have to say that you in particular do often make me stop and question my own views; it's hard to completely disagree with you when you explain yourself so well. I'm more conservative than you seem to be, but I do see your point about your mom finding happiness. In truth my conservatism might border on hypocrisy at times...but I'm sure that applies to most of us when it comes to our cherished notions. I don't view these debates as battles to try to win supremacy for my particular opinion; I just throw my opinion out there, try to defend it if it comes under challenge, and try to keep an open mind. I do think we have something special in the Indian culture, and I would hope we would hold on to the good things in our culture."

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I'm just curious, what is that "special something" and the "good things" in India culture that you would hope to hold on to in regards to women?

I'm asking this after reading the comments between Dharma Queen and yourself.

By: Pardesi Gori

Pardesi Gori — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:45:47 +0000

Regarding "masculinity", is there any connection between various ethnicities and testosterone levels?

Have any studies been done on that? I remember googling for that like a year or two ago and came up with nothing.

Razib?

I have read that testosterone levels increase with increased meat-eating and physical activities like weight-lifting, resistance training.

This might have something to do with the stereotypes noted above.

By: HMF

HMF — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:02:58 +0000

darling,he’s not a real nerd. he just plays one on tv.

By: Dharma Queen

Dharma Queen — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:27:35 +0000

AC,

Trust me, gorigori is some grinning bespectacled hairy-pawed male having fun with all of us. Do you really want to encourage him?

HMF, I love nerds, specially when they ooze nerd chic and NSA (nerd sex appeal) like the babe lighting up the SM home page right now.

By: AC

AC — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:07:51 +0000

gorigori -

please. you're obviously not looking hard enough.

me on the other hand, well, i would love to paw you with my fat, filthy, ring-adorned lala-claws. where did you say you live again?

By: razib_the_atheist

razib_the_atheist — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:57:56 +0000

It is my impression, accumulated over several months, that a contingent, at least, of desi men feel this way.

they're called p**sies. they exist in every ethnic group. it is an inverse of the old adage, you are what you eat....