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Offline noisyturtle

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I find it incredibly condescending and annoying, unless you are speaking the entire sentence in that language.
No one but Americans do it. Not like someone from Japan or Mexico will be speaking about American food, then totally drop their native accent to say "hamburger and french fries" with a flat White guy accent. It's stupid.

Chefs especially are guilty of doing this constantly, as if naming the ingredient with an inflection makes it more respectful of the ingredient or something.

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Re: What do you think about people who only use an accent for certain words?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 09 November 2025, 19:58:41 »
Humans are just plain weird.
Not sure if this fits the thread, but I have an acquaintance who speaks in a general American accent but will use a British accent on a seemingly-random word. Like, when saying "can't" he'll pronounce the "a" as the "o" in "hot". He's in his early-mid twenties, so maybe he's still acclimating to his vocal chords.  :p
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