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Indians with fake English accents


Del
How can it be anything but when the closest she's ever been to the UK is Dubai? And she didn't grow up with Brits here.
An educated Indian who has never been to the UK will speak EXCELLENT, PERFECT English (I know quite a few) but with an Indian accent.

I only believe her accent is fake.
Maybe this mate of yours from your work is a pain in the back and her accent just overgrew in importance.
I think you are overreacting.
I dunno what you're on about mate. I don't know what you're defending either.
There's a guy who seems to think it appropriate to put on an American, 'Yo!' accent when he sees me. I doubt if he speaks like that at home.
Del
Exactly. Speedhump I do business with a LOT of indians, many of them are very educated and went to English speaking schools, listened to BBC World radio etc. They speak English with an anglicised accent but not mimicking an English person. The women often sound particularly nice to my mind, very clean and precise English, like Edinburgh girls! But a very few Indians do try so hard to sound like the King/Queen of England. Sometimes Indians call their fellow countrymen who try to be English 'Bounty Bars' (after the confectionery) or 'coconuts'. In other words brown outside, white inside. The opposite of young white kids in the UK that want to sound/act like black rappers (they're known as 'whiggers', nothing to do with hair, you work it out....). By the way, interesting fact No.1 - to make a Welsh accent, take an Indian accent and raise it an octave. Try it :P sharfraz
excuse me... man
whether been to the UK or not man, neither matters man.,
well man, its how one interacts with the language man
(for british accent one could get that from growing up with brits ).....
and may be with an american accent, it's probably from the media man .. very popularly called Hollywood man.....
Period!!!!!!!
man = Accent!!!!!!!!!
:lol: Speedhump
There was a comedy series in the UK a few years ago called 'Goodness Gracious Me' written and performed by Indians. They had a husband and wife sketch called 'the Coopers' who were exactly what we are talking about. You have to watch this....
Del rudeboy lol are we talking about fake bvitish or canadian accent? Wednesday Jones Or Philippinos with fake English names?! Was told that many have Tagalog names which are fairly unpronounceable so adopt English names in Dubai, not realising that some of the names are wayyyy out of date: Edith, Dot, Pearl, Ivy, Ethel Wednesday Jones Or Philippinos with fake English names?! Was told that many have Tagalog names which are fairly unpronounceable so adopt English names in Dubai, not realising that some of the names are wayyyy out of date: Edith, Dot, Pearl, Ivy, Ethel dee7o mmm....you actually know someone called "Dot" ?

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quatroporte I know someone his name is DUTY :roll: dee7o is his last name FREE? Sorry bad joke :( yujinn
Haha! "Fake" english names? lol. No. Believe it or not, that's their real names. They don't have a local name and then an english name like for example the chinese. Del A woman in our company, who thinks she's really something, is getting on my nerves with her plummy accent. I might have to pull her up about it one day. dresden I hate people who Fake British Accents. Just be proud of where you are from goddamnit! rudeboy
is she indian :D skipperman
Hey, I'm a Filipino.
And I can say that you probably don't know what you are talking about.
There's no such thing as Tagalog name. We are part of the open world where we can choose any name we want for our children.
Okay let's say those are their names, probably names of people you knew.
So what!? Does your name make you better than the rest of the world who have outdated names? Wednesday Jones
Hey, not being Philippino, what would I know??? Of course.
Perhaps just the labour cards that the Philippinas have shown me as part of my job. Names are different on their name badges. Simple.
No need to be so sensitive. skipperman
Exactly...
michaeldubai Who doesnt have a fake accent? Indians? Locals? other arabs? gamercowboy A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. -Romeo & Juliet DoubleDigit
I have a feeling you will hate them anyways :idea: DDS I don't really care of any accent, fake or not, it's the credentials they put in their CV that I find despicable! cosmodrift First of all there's no such thing as a British accent, faked or not, since that's the original language. Technically all other non British people will have some sort of accent. Another thing: If I am not a native speaker I will have the accent according to whom I learned English from. The more you learn more accurate your English shall be and you will sound more and more like a native speaker. That's the idea. Nothing to do with not being proud where you come from, by the way. dee7o
Your real name isn't DOT is it? Del
I don't know what you're on about mate. Every British person I grew up with in Britain had a British accent. And that includes British Indians.
I'm talking about an obviously fake, put-on accent, like an American actor with dreadlocks trying to sound like a Jamaican Rasta in a film. Laughable.
How can someone who has never been to Britain sound like they grew up in Berkshire or Surrey? MC
As far as I know, when people started speaking English they didn't exactly speak the way they do now. So yeah there are British accents. Actually there are different British accents too. raidah some do fake the accent. funny thing is, a small thing like this can say so much about a person. farthestpoint
"Being ignorant of other cultures & practices is not an excuse in this world where information resources doesn't cost a penny."
There is no such thing as Filipinos with fake English name. By the glory of whoever, forgive me for not being able to choose my name. It so happened it sounds like a "fake English" name. Holy cow.
And for the name that differs than that of the badge....have you ever heard of something called "nickname"? Maybe that's the case. Maybe "Dot" is a short name (or the so-called nickname) of Dorothy. cosmodrift Yes, I agree there are many variants even for the original British language. But I also believe someone has the right to choose the way he or she will sound like, the same way they have the right to choose their names or nicknames. Del
I'm not questioning her right to adopt a fake British accent... Del
Well said. They're FAKE.
She slept with my (British) boss and claims to have an Indian boyfriend. Who is she faking it with? cosmodrift I don't know. It just affects me in a different way. If I see an Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or anybody, speaking a flawless English I admire it. It's just natural. You asked how someone can speak just like natives when they never been there. Well nowadays, with all this media available everywhere? Are you serious? All British English courses provide endless material and if you really wanna learn it correctly watching the BBC certainly will help. According to your line of thoughts all Japanese should always swap "R" and "L" and add the "O" after every word otherwise we should second guess their intentions and personality. Come on. This post is about prejudice, labelling and discrimination. skipperman
Couldn't agree more... Del
Flawless English is not what I'm on about.

Maybe.

I didn't say speak like natives, I said fake.

You're missing my point.

Where did I imply that?

No it's not, it's about Indians with fake British accents. barbarella there are ppl who will adopt certain accents or styles of speech depending on who they're around...some ppl just can't help but mimic... but those aren't the same as ppl who are obviously trying to put it on....but i've never seen anyone walking around day to day faking accents....sounds hilarious desertdudeshj Well it's better than having a fake Ozzie accent :D godsent
There's a lad from Adelaide, South Aus who goes by the name of capt. Aus who would find a buxom Indian girl dressed in a yellow and green sariee speaking with an aussie accent, holding a can of fosters and a litted up Winfield fag, to be highly exotic :!: :!: :!:
:lol: cosmodrift Del wrote

Really? Short term memory issue, maybe? Read below.
Del wrote

cosmodrift wrote:

Del wrote

You implied that when you agreed with this nonsense:
raidah wrote:

Del wrote

So you meet an Asian with a British accent. You assume by yourself that's a fake accent which in consequence makes you believe everything else about that person is fake? Gosh, this is odd and if it's not called prejudice I don't know what it is.
Maybe this mate of yours from your work is a pain in the back and her accent just overgrew in importance.
I think you are overreacting. cosmodrift If I choose my clothing according to the fashion my clothes are fake? If I buy the exactly same car of a friend because I like it, is my car fake? If I adopt an accent for daily use because I like it is that faking? So everything else is fake. We are always emulating something, following tips of others, dressing like others we see on TV or on the street. It does not mean we are faking. It's what you do that counts, not the way you sound like. You call that fake, I call that style. Less aggressive. Del It would be stylish if were to speak like 50 Cent? Speedhump
WHIGGER ALERT!!! :D DoubleDigit nEVEr judge a book by its cover (disagree) Wednesday Jones Oi! You'm all making me gurt pi$$ moi salf, like! This thread is gurt tutchin raw nerves. You'm all just a bunch of gurt big sansitive nancies wot needs to chill. (READ IN A PERFECT ENGLISH WEST COUNTRY ACCENT, like.) cosmodrift There's nothing to chill about Jones. We are just having a conversation.
Del, there are thousands speaking and dressing like 50 cent. Maybe tasteless for some, including myself, but definitely not a reason to believe that " a small thing like that would tell so much about that person " in a negative way. Del
Yeah, they're called Americans.
How cool would a Chinese or a Serbian or a Brazilian (if you still think I'm attacking Indians) appear with a 50 Cent accent? Speedhump
How about a Jewish boy from London, innit?
cosmodrift
That would be awful, but, once again, not enough to question their personality. It is a matter of taste, or bad taste only. If you can't understand that after all that have been written so far, maybe you have an English problem. Del
I write for a living. In English. Speedhump
Surely taste is a trait of personality. A person's taste in music reveals things about their personality, as does their choice of cars. Surely 'choosing' to acquire an accent which is alien to you reveals something about you as a person, and that's personality? Del cosmo refuses to quit when he's behind, if you get my drift.
I take issue with retarded dwarves who question my grammar. Speedhump
I also :D
'Contemporaneous with' or 'contemporaneous to', on such small blocks is our civilisation founded.. cosmodrift
No one is questioning your grammar, Del and if I start exchanging insults with you I would be in contradiction with all my posts. My posts were very clear and in more than one occasion you said you did not understand where I was on about. So, since your grammar is ok, maybe your interpretation is the issue, but I just think the real problem is your stubbornness, being a fact you are worried who's ahead or behind in this dialogue. In fact, this attitude of yours makes things very clear why you created a post like this.
I am just killing time. 8) xero_ [quote="Speedhump"]
go to any college here in the UAE and you will see doubles of Ali G. Jamal a forum poster here exactly types like an ali g... probably talks the same irl too. :? Speedhump [quote="xero_"]
aight! cuz I feel ya.... come n roll wit me massive on da beach road one time, it be real, well safe! peace out....
:roll: TheChoosen Where did he put his 2 fingers??? :lol: :lol: NinaSimone I'm from Australia where the only language required to speak is English so we have it easy. I don't care what name other nationalities take on or accents they form, they are trying to learn another language such as English. I think we should be thankful they know English as I would love to know another language. NinaSimone I embrace people from other countries who learn English and try. I am from Australia where we don't need to know any other language except English. I would love to know another language. I'm jealous! Speedhump
Nina, I am from the UK and agree, I think we are showing our laziness by not learning another language. I have schoolboy French which I have used and slowly improved over the years, but it's still dire!
I never comment on, let alone criticise the English of anyone whose first language is not English. It's an awful thing to do, but it happens so much it's unbelievable :(
I wish I could learn Arabic or Chinese but who has the time (and my knowledge absorption isn't what it was either....:D ).
Nina Simone was one sexy singer. You related?? rudeboy i hate the fake paki british accents seriously. ppl migrate there or go there for a few years to work come to dubai and all of a suden they are BVITISH??? lol linbonwoods just in peoples thinkings, no meaning................ Del
It's not the language I'm referring to - it's the accent.
I come from south London but how would I be perceived if I tried to speak as if I went to Oxford, Eton or Harrow? sage & onion
It's commonly called; speaking with a plum in your chops :lol: :lol: Speedhump I come from S London too but I have been told that I have an unplaceable accent. I think that over 30 years of working internationally (although 25 of them sitting in London) has eroded my roots! 'BBC English' is a nice way of describing accentless English pronunciation with perfect grammar. But that doesn't cover the shrill whining and braying that you do hear from some of the lads and lasses that graduate from the top Universities of the UK. :pukeright: sharfraz
right smiley dude...they honk too....
and they wouldnt bother and neither would we....
8) beckah Was told that many have Tagalog names which are fairly unpronounceable so adopt English names in Dubai, not realising that some of the names are wayyyy out of date: Edith, Dot, Pearl, Ivy, EthelHAHAHA sooo funny sage & onion HAHAHA sooo funny
Whats wrong with Ivy?, thats my Aunts name :evil: sharfraz havent you guys heard of ethel... a female character in archie comics!!!!! :lol: DDS HAHAHA sooo funny
Most Philippinos have spanish names not Tagalog. idiot... sage & onion
Most Philippinos have spanish names not Tagalog. idiot...
Didn't know that "Idiot" was a name in Spanish :lol: :lol: :lol: DDS
Didn't know that "Idiot" was a name in Spanish :lol: :lol: :lol:
It used to...now the english has taken it. sage & onion
It used to...now the english has taken it.
Funny :roll: Speedhump
Sage can I ask where you hail from?
I think it's sweet that Filipinas choose old fashioned names. For example it's better than a lot of the Singaporean guys that call themselves glitzy names like Ricky or Elvis! sage & onion
Thats a difficult one to answer, between, birth, majority living, final retirement :lol: gtmash
He's from Liverpool. sage & onion
Not so, Liverpool FC is however one of the Football teams that I like Speedhump
he's shy...wonder why... sage & onion
Who he? Speedhump
he you! sage & onion
Me shy, no way, lol



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