Although I do have to admit an accent may come handy at a certain point: people without accent never see people with accent coming.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Mr. Rushdie made me a blogger
The only thing I love more than books is writing. Not because I write well—I wish, but after reading Mr. Rushdie I wisely gave up all my literary ambitions—but because when I write in English, I have no accent. Grammatical mistakes: plenty. Odd constructions: even more so. But accent: zero. When I write a sentence on a paper, a text on my phone, or a joke on a chat, no one answers with that stupid “Where are you from?” Or the even scarier, “Your accent is so cute! I so do wish I had an accent, it’s so sexy.” Yeah, right. Ask Mexicans in Arizona if they think having an accent is cute or sexy. Having an accent is falling pray to profiling and misconception. You speak different, ergo you are different. You sound dumber, ergo you are dumber. Great!
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I think I write French with an anglophone accent ... I have a really hard time with all of those words that sound the same, esp. the third-person verbs with all of the silent letters:
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I'm so glad I don't have to speak in French. When I try to (for family members who read absolutely no English) I look like a retard (and thats after hours of babelfish). As they say in France: Bon courage !
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