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The fact that you're willing to put in the effort for accents with different words, contractions and pronunciations but not willing to put in the effort for sli
by nindalf 2y ago
The fact that you're willing to put in the effort for accents with different words, contractions and pronunciations but not willing to put in the effort for slightly different stress/melody is sadly quite common.
Someone saying "I'm going to pick up my ute in the arvo while I eat a jaffle" - sure, let me look up what that means. Whereas "Kindly do the needful" - no fuck this, you need to learn to fucking speak English.
I'd say the difference isn't what you've pointed out, it's the colour of the skin of the speaker. White people saying anything they feel like - the onus is on the listener to adapt. Brown/black people saying anything - they need to learn to speak English.
> lumping "Scottish" together is already weird
You lumping "Indian" together is equally weird. What's the matter? You can't tell the difference between a Tamil person and Malayali person speaking English? Spare me the condescension, please.
- WrongAssumption 2y agoYou are the only one that is acting racist here.
- nindalf 2y agoI put in the effort for every English accent I've encountered - French, Turkish, Greek, Scottish, Australian, Indian Canadian. You put in the effort for white people's accents. But sure, I'm the racist. Typical isn't it? Indian person complains about racism and you immediately decide that complaining is racist. Says everything I need to know about you.
- kayo_20211030 2y agoI grew up familiar with "do the needful", which I still use. I also grew up many thousands of miles from India. But my favorite Indian expression, which I learned later is to "prepone" something, as in the opposite of to "postpone" something. That one, I genuinely love. Neither of these are slang, like "ute" or "arvo", they're a thoughtful evolution of the language.