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Why do Indians living abroad put on an accent?

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Aditi Newbie

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lol, c'mon you sound awesome :P But it would be fun to hear u in a couple of years after you movie to Kangaroo-land. :cantstop:
lol I probably wont pick up the Aussie accent (as awesome as it sounds), but there will def. be some phrases :haha::haha:
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Sanjay Gupta was born and bred in Detroit, and he has lived in the United States for his whole life. Fake accents are incredibly pretentious and sound pathetic. I have comes across some freshies speaking in their Amreekan akshents and they sound like morons. I don't know why they feel the need to talk like that when they sound perfectly fine speaking naturally. If you aren't an American, stop trying to act like one. This fake accent crap seems to have caught on in India as well. Now why the hell would someone living in India want to put on an accent ? Idiots
Well...it is not about 'fake ' accent...it is about picking the accent....:D...ya I know there r so many ppl who try to act like whites...stupid ppl change names also...:haha:
Rajiv Collaborator

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lol I probably wont pick up the Aussie accent (as awesome as it sounds)' date=' but there will def. be some phrases :haha::haha:[/quote'] ya, you would calls us Indian Crickey Fans. ----------- 1) One of the reasons, some put an accent ( especially ) after returning to India is coz people there expect an accent. It's like " didn't you get a carton of 555 and a bottle of black label " back in the day I visited US/Europe like 14 times in the 90's. everytime some joker expecting " hey man, whats up " while expecting " kya re, kaisa hain " and gettig the usual " abhya america gaya tha ke VT station gaya tha" Its natural to come out with an accent while conversing with an American for a) Not sounding the APU 2) understand each other well ---------- P.S - Reminded of this gem from out Hindi Teacher back in School This kid just returned from US, and he was late for couple of days after summer holidays so Mr. Vaidya asked him politely, "where were you", he stood up with that look and said "STATES" The teacher kept staring at him, said " STATES ", very good, so what state ? Maharashtra, Karnataka...? he just sat down quietly
DomainK Newbie

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'skejool' :hysterical:
I was under hammer for that word. I used to pronounce it the traditional way- "Shedule". Then I joined an American company and though I was employed in India, I had to sit on occasional conference calls with clients overseas and my boss was very unhappy whenever I discussed "schedule" with them. It took me a few days to get used to that word. I quit that position pretty soon though......for other reasons. I still pronounce it "Shedule":D
DomainK Newbie

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Can someone tell me what accent that girl Elina from Big Boss has got? She confuses me every time she talks in English. I could not place the accent anywhere. Though her Hindi is quite clean suggesting that she has spent a good number of years in India.

Kartikey Newbie

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what do you say instead?
Well apparently I pronounce V as a W and vice versa. But I found this on Wikipedia: Standard Hindi and most other vernaculars do not differentiate between /v/ (voiced labiodental fricative) and /w/ (voiced labiovelar approximant). Instead, most Indians use a frictionless labio-dental approximant [Ê‹] for words with either sound, possibly in free variation with [v] and/or [w]. So wine and vine are homophones. So I'm not the only one...
Aditi Newbie

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How do u guys pronouce Melbourne? I say Melburn but ive heard people in the UK say Melborn.
I heard it being pronounced 'Melbin' a lot when I was there :haha::haha::haha: I say 'Melborn'
ludhianvi Newbie

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There is no "W" in the Hindi alphabet.
good observation. I dont think there's one either. No wonder the difficulty. V and W can be quite confusing at the beginning. V is usually pronounced from the front of the mouth like as if you're whistling whereas the 'W' sound as in 'wine', you close your mouth and open it wide to make the 'w' sound. Atleast that's what I think. Another difficult one is 'square' and pronouncing it as 'scare' :D And also 'v' and 'b'
living Newbie

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V - W and also pronouncing r's clearly are some problems I've come across. And yes you do put on an accent after some time, especially if you don't spend much time with other indian kids.

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