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my_high_IQ

Azerbaijan

August 24, 2010

         

      When your language is not perfect, it is hard to express yourself. It is hard to sound intelligent when your vocabulary is limited and you occasionally come up with wrong expressions or words.

        Once in a movie, I heard what I thought was one of the best phrases related to speaking a foreign language. An old man said to Keanu Reeves: ‘ Just because I talk with an accent doesn't mean I think with an accent. ”


      

       So,honestly,how do you think about people speaking your language with an accent? Is it annoying? amusing? or may be you,  as it was mentioned in the movie, consider them unintelligent?

       

  

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12:26 PM Aug 26 2010

my_high_IQ

my_high_IQ
Azerbaijan

   IMAAZH      sometimes not knowing is better than knowing :)

   CranBerry  really, among one and the same nation there are some kinds of accents, its quite common here too. Every now and then I have patients from rural areas of my country and  sometimes their accent is so strong that while questioning it takes additional time and effort to form a clear picture. So here I can say it can be  annoying too.

   ^_^yan  don't worry, I have activated a new feature in my profile:each one, who comments on my blog, automatically gives a correct opinion,;)

         By the way,have you seen, there was this joke going around about an Italian man in the US? It was quite funny actually. He kept getting in trouble because he wanted "fok" on his table and shit on his bed, and all sorts, it was going on and on...

I know you've seen it but just in case:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Uo20QnsHM&feature=related

 

 

    

06:02 PM Aug 24 2010

^_^yan

^_^yan
China

ahhhhhhhh , i am quite agree with you , to the same word , if you use with different accent , it will stand for different meaning, I think it is the magical thing to each language .

ahhhhh,actually , I dont know what I am talking about , I dont know my opinion correct or not .

any way , have a nice day , dear friend .

05:12 PM Aug 24 2010

CranBerry

CranBerry
Russian Federation

Sometimes an accent can give a certain peculiarity, sometimes it can be taken as a specific feature of certain nations. Nobody is perfect and even  among one and the same nation there are some kinds of accents.Honestly, only TV news announcers talk  pure unaccented language, all the others are imperfect.

04:13 PM Aug 24 2010

IMAAZH

IMAAZH
United Arab Emirates

Hmmm,,i dunno , i dunno how i will feel