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Welcome, Kroonal.

I see you are from Mumbai. Please speak up, tell us a bit about your life in that city.

I have a strong interest in India, and intend to move there within the next 2 yrs. Hopefully will be visiting New Dehi, Dehradun, and possibly Pune in about 4 months time.

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i hope he lives next to a chemical plant

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I hope he doesn't work in tech support. I'll have to have words.

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India? Fuck India and its second class call centres. How comes everytime I call my bank some Indian tart with the name 'Tracey' completely misunderstands the common english language?

Man, I hate having to repeat myself...

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She is a 22 yr old native of Mumbai. I've no idea what she does for a living, and frankly don't care about that. I'd just like to talk with her via the forum.

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Lets hope you don't have to call her to ammend your overdraft...

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Originally posted by SimpleSimon
I'd just like to talk with her via the forum.

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Lets hope you don't have to call her to ammend you overdraft...

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i hope he lives next to a chemical plant

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Because if you tried to talk to her on the phone, you wouldn't be able to understand.

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i likewise have very little trouble with indian accents. it's the call centers in argentina that get to me.

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Well I do.

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Suxx0rs to be j00!

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he's a she? TITS! POST THEM!

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One More Time meaning you're not going to make any more of these?

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One More Time meaning one more time.

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I actually listened to Daft Punk - Discovery in my car today.

Unrerailable.

That's a word.

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right. and 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary.

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I've never had a problem understanding people from India, they tend to speak much better english than some Londoners. I could hardly understand the english used by people in Atlanta when I was there. Glass houses and stone throwing come to mind.

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I've never had a problem understanding people from India, they tend to speak much better english than some Londoners.

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I hold a conversation with my Yorkshire terrier.

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Why Londoners? What about a scotts or a paddy or a sheep shaggin' welsh man?

Ever tried to hold a conversation with a drunk yorkshire man?

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Geordies and Glaswegians can be very difficult to understand, but I would say that the most difficult of all to understand are the older types from the West of Ireland. Cockneys (by which I assume you effectively aim to mean 'Londoners') are so similar to general South-East England dialect, and that being perhaps the largest dialect of all, that I don't think that they're hard to understand. Even with the rhyming slang. They're pretty ubiquitous.

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I've little difficulty following what an Irisher is saying, even the ones from western Ireland. By cockneys I do not mean Londoners in general, I mean cockneys. The silly twats who think it is fun to totally mangle the language with their so-called "rhyming slang", specifically.

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That's the majority of Londoners, nowadays. There's way more people that speak like cockneys than actually are cockneys, given the small area you have to be born in to be a cockney.

Rhyming slang's relatively old, I think, although I imagine that the mass media has helped its recent spread. Most British people (as well as aussies, etc) know what it means, though; I'm not sure that it counts as 'mangling the language', given that the language evolves and the rhyming slang has evolved into it.

When I was in County Kerry, I had problems understanding some of the older people. People from Galway, Limerick and Clare, not so much. Belfast accents are pretty special, too, although I don't think that anything has it over Glaswegian accents.

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