Shorts
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The Adaptive Indian
Why must Indians try to put on an accent when they go abroad? I say “put on”, because nobody develops an accent a week into settling down in a new place. Are we really that ashamed or insecure of how we do things? I don’t see the Chinese/Japanese try to speak with an accent. In fact, they would barely speak English if they had it their way.
And it’s not like we do a good job of wearing a new accent anyway. The ones who develop it naturally, they’re fine. But the ones who try to put it on are stuck in a limbo between the Indian accent (or lack of one, to be honest) and the new one. They end up sounding frustratingly ridiculous to a limit that it’s just plain annoying to talk to them because you can’t understand a single thing they’re saying.
I’ll never get people’s idiosyncrasies.
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