Accents

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Re: Accents

@redvelvet

What’s worse? Pakistanis adopting a fake accent or those who live in Pak/or have lived there a sufficient amount of time and pretend that they don’t know Urdu? Or what really baffles me is how my cousins who were born and raised here (and even those outside of the family)…they hear their parents say basic words like theek, acha, etc…all their lives and yet when they say such basic words themselves…there’s an American twang to it. Strangely the eldest child tends to be more fluent in the language or grasps the accent…and in the subsequent children…it’s much much weaker…although they receive daily exposure to the language as well. This is just based on my observations…it’s something I’ve never understood.

and there are some in Pakistan who have never been abroad but speak with their friends in English with an American accent