Ignorance is bliss

[Lisa B]

I had a deep fried mars bar once!

It was actually pretty ok!

 

[Bea]

I was reading your rant and went through the same thing, except I was in England!

Every time I go over I end up having some very strange experience, and it always starts with my "accent".
Try to order an Iced tea in a local pub, that was a fun and very long conversation!! I can't remember how many times the guy at the bar asked me to say antibiotics.
Then we had the washroom incident with the very scary lady, not sure how I made it out of that one without hurting her!!!

I guess my point is that your "accent" is relative to where you are in the world. And from what I've learned is that it's a certain kind of person that does this, not a group as a whole.

Most people were very polite, but did ask where I was from, funny all guessed the U.S. and only a few were rude/annoying about things.

Now how's going to share that deep fried Mars bar?????

 

[JohnMF]

they deep fry everything up there, even pizza and Mars bars

they've actually started boiling and steaming them these days in an effort to promote healthly living

 

[Lisa B]

they've actually started boiling and steaming them these days in an effort to promote healthly living

I hope to christ you're joking

 

[Lisa B]

I was reading your rant and went through the same thing, except I was in England!

Every time I go over I end up having some very strange experience, and it always starts with my "accent".
Try to order an Iced tea in a local pub, that was a fun and very long conversation!! I can't remember how many times the guy at the bar asked me to say antibiotics.
Then we had the washroom incident with the very scary lady, not sure how I made it out of that one without hurting her!!!

I guess my point is that your "accent" is relative to where you are in the world. And from what I've learned is that it's a certain kind of person that does this, not a group as a whole.

Most people were very polite, but did ask where I was from, funny all guessed the U.S. and only a few were rude/annoying about things.

Now how's going to share that deep fried Mars bar?????

One of the very first things I said to my husband was "Can i have a glass of water, please" and he was like "huh?" and im like thinking...what, do u guys not have water?! Haha...I said it again and he was like "What do you want? Wah'ah?" and i found myself trying to speak all posh and propper just to get a glass of warteeeeeeeeer! hah....

Those kinda accent things are funny. He almost died laughing at me saying Radiator for christ sake! That was a standing joke for far too long.

Raaaaaaaaaaaay-Deeeeeee-Aaaaaaaaaaaaay-Teeeeeeeer!

 

[chente922]

i must say that I'm a sucker for a girl with english accent... just love it

i kind of have a bit of a accent here in puerto rico since my dad is spanish i tend to pronounce the "r" a lot (spanish is my first language), but here in puerto rico the slang is to change the pronunciation of the "r" for a "l"

sometimes people make fun of me because of that, i don't care but as you guys said, it can really get into your nerves sometimes, and when that happens i reply "at least i can speak spanish correctly", then they call me arrogant.. jaja people is so stupid sometimes

 

[Rick Waldroup]

At the State Fair of Texas, this year, they featured fried Coca Cola.

How in the hell you fry Coca Cola, I'll never know.

 

[ferny]

Anyone who slags off fried mars bars will get their arse kicked.

 

[chente922]

when i went to california this summer to visit my cousins, their friends kept making fun of me and my girlfriend's pronunciation, as i sometimes write here, my english isn't that good, neither my pronunciation so... they kept making fun of us until it really upsets me, then i remebered that they mentioned spanish class in high school and how hard was it so my answer to that was: "what other language do you speak then?? let me hear your spanish?? or maybe a little bit of french??...

of course they didn't anything besides english... and that was the last time they make fun of us jajajaja!!!

I really hate when someone thinks they're superior to others, specially americans (no offense), but i don't care since they're the idiots... none of them was at college, i'm talking about 19yo - 22yo boys who didn't even care about what to do with their life

 

[JohnMF]

I hope to christ you're joking

absolutely true... ahem... honestly...

 

[JohnMF]

Anyone who slags off fried mars bars will get their arse kicked.

why, will you set Becky on us?

 

[Lisa B]

nextt thing you know you'll be suggesting we all boil cabbage....oh...wait...

 

[JohnMF]

nextt thing you know you'll be suggesting we all boil cabbage....oh...wait...

i know a few women who boil bunnys

 

[ferny]

why, will you set Becky on us?

I have no power over Becky. Yet... Mwuhahaha ahhh ahhha aggg *coughs*

 

[LaFoto]

jaja

Funny how much this shows Spanish is your first language, indeed, to be typing the usual "haha" with "jota" I like to see this. Any time we had Paraguayan exchange students stay with us, in their e-mail home every time they expressed their "laughing" in this Spanish spelling. Fun to be finding it again.

And I think accents are funny. I once even planned to write my thesis about different English accents; in the end it turned out to be a thesis on a translation problem between German and Spanish, though.

Apart from that one guy in Texas who mistook me for a Scottish person, in Singapore Airport I asked someone where there were any public telephones in the transit area. There were none, but he took me to a higher class lounge and let me search the Singapore phone books there (could not find my friend, a pity), and asked on the way where I was from. When I replied "Germany" he said "Oh, you do not sound that at all. Germans normally sound very different." Ah well...