I Hate Fake People

To all wanna-be Americans aka north Indians, stop teasing at my accent just because I'm a south Indian. In case you haven't noticed, your accent is bad as ours. You pronounce "zero" as "jeero", "dozen" as "darjan". Yes, I can't properly pronounce the word "film". We have our own influences, so our accent will never be perfect. Be proud of we are, rather than hiding our weakness and teasing others. Yours loving, your co-worker who happened to be a south Indian.

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SW-User

@quizling there're two types of Indian accents: north and south. The one you're probably familiar is north. South Indian accent is funnier than north Indian. But sometimes, we, south Indians get too much harassed by north Indians. I have faced it when I was at Kolkata for a training program. As a part of the program, we had English course. During one of the pronunciation class, our trainer, a north Indian, teased south Indian accents in front of me and the other kids from south India, while rest of them laughed at us. By the end of the class, we had a speech test where we have to read from an English text, to a computer which records and tests how good is each trainee's pronunciation and give out the results. When the result came out, two south Indians, including me, had topped the tests. Talk about the irony.