When we are growing up, everyone around us desperately want us to start speaking, and most of the time we start speaking in our mother tongue. Kids can imitate and absorb easily what the grown ups are speaking and how they are speaking. Then once we go to school, we learn new slangs and even more languages. So the pronunciation of every alphabet starts depending solely on the school mates, their parents, teachers, your parents, relatives and almost every single person surrounding us.
While growing up, Harry Potter books had a gigantic influence on me that my family had to go through many agonizing experiences. My dad had to pre-book the last two books for me because I would trot behind him like a dog pleading for a treat. When those movies came out I was equally excited and would drag them all to the theatre, but my obsession sadly did not end there. I would re-watch the movies and re-read the books until some one pointed out that I am acting like a lunatic, which is almost always my brother. I was mesmerized by the British accent after watching those movies, that I would try to speak like them, failing miserably, of course. Also because I did not care a flying poop about it I went around annoying everyone with it.
Then there was another T.V show that blew my mind other than ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’ and it was ‘Mind your language’. It is basically a comedy show that is supposedly happening in London, where a Prof. Jeremy Brown is teaching English in an adult education college, as a foreign language to the immigrants who came there. The students in his class included a German, Italian, Swedish, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Japanese and French and their accents were the highlight of the show.
Years later, I sometimes still talk like a fake Italian baker or a fake French writer to Bigshot, just to annoy him. Immediately after watching Sherlock Holmes, I start my horrible British imitation which to be honest I am not that proud of. And can anyone blame me for trying to speak like Inspector Clouseau, I mean “I would like to buy you a damburgen”, come on!
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Doing what I do, I forget that I sometimes cannot even say certain words and phrases like a normal adult that I feel the need to slap myself really hard. Luck has it, I mess up talking like an adult almost always when I am meeting new people or when I am outside.
Last weekend we went out to eat at an Indian Restaurant and we were welcomed by a sweet, beautiful girl. She was so sweet and warm that I kept eyeing her through the corner of my eyes. She even laughed at one of my joke when she was taking our order. Everything was going perfect and she had even given us take away boxes for the left overs until she came over to ask me this.
“Do you both want any deserts ma’am?” she asked.
“No, we are pretty stuffed, Can I have a blag?” It was too late and I couldn’t take it back.
“BAG?” she said.
“I mean, BAG, for the leftovers.” I stopped talking.
She sensed the embarrassment and left. Telling Bigshot about the incident after he came from the wash was another huge mistake from my part. Apparently I do this very often. Here are certain words I speak like a retard
1) Libary instead of Library
2) Esseptions instead of Exceptions
3) Esspensive instead of Expensive
4) Jushtice instead of Justice
5) Shpoon instead of Spoon
And being a mallu (Malayali from Kerala) hasn’t helped much either. The mallu in me HAS to wake up when after a month of sitting at home and finally deciding to go out and talk to someone, there it goes, I say things like,
“vindow” instead of “window”
“Yem Bee Yae” instead of “MBA”
“werld” instead of “world”
Damn you, accents!
Author: Lakshmi Geeth
I’m an ordinarily odd person who is pleasant to talk to. When I’m not trying to be funny, I would be lying on the floor bawling my eyes out. I write weird stories, real life snippets, traumatic and dramatic memories along with doses of unsolicited advices. 🙂
