How to speak to foreigners

**moorfield** · 15 August 2008, 18:04

What a McClown.

**scooterscot** · 15 August 2008, 18:18

Seems that you need a PC to play this clip... chee

**NickFitz** · 15 August 2008, 18:45

Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

Seems that you need a PC to play this clip... chee

Works on my MacBook - it's just a YouTube video, which is a Flash player.

**Gonzo** · 15 August 2008, 19:01

Well, I have some sympathy.

I find that whenever I am talking to someone with a strong accent, involunatarily I start talking with the same intonation and metre as they use.

They usually think that I am taking the piss out of them.

Note: I haven't watched the whole clip so don't know if he was just being a noddy.

**Tensai** · 15 August 2008, 21:02

Originally posted by Gonzo View Post

I find that whenever I am talking to someone with a strong accent, involunatarily I start talking with the same intonation and metre as they use.

I've been in Texas all week, half of the locals simply DO NOT understand if I speak in my normal unaccented British English. I have to either (a) slow it down to the point of comedy, or (b) fake a mild American accent which makes me sound like a sub-par version of Hugh Laurie in House. Highly irritating.

**scooterscot** · 15 August 2008, 21:16

it's working now... weird.

**blacjac** · 15 August 2008, 22:32

Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

it's working now... weird.

Nah, that's ust the inferiority of Mac's

They just don't work

**Diver** · 15 August 2008, 22:34

Speak very slowly and very loudly to Johnny Foreigner, it's all they understand.

HTH

PS. Putting skee or eo on the endeos of wordeos sometimes helpskee's

How to speak to foreigners