Re: Severe Accent
Most westerners see accents as a fluid thing and don’t view it the same way you’ve described..
As a child I had a Yorkshire accent but after moving south I lost it** completely**.. the same has happened with other people I know.. My brother moved back up north for uni and his accent changed again lol (for ex down here we’d say ‘glarse’ for ‘glass’ and up there it would be ‘glasss’.. it sounds much more flat)..
It’s usually not seen as a negative thing or even thought of as a conscious decision but even if it was I really don’t see why it would be a bad thing to speak in a way in which people might understand you better.. I’ve said this before but it would be like me deliberately spaking Urdu or Hindi in a strong Essex accent just to sound ‘authentic.’ Sounds a bit ridiculous doesn’t it..
Why is speaking a desi language without a western accent seen as a good thing but not the other way round?