MY TAKE......

ON ACCENTS...

the dictionary describes the word 'accent' as a way in which someone pronounces words of a language in a distictive way that shows which country they come from.

when i walk ino one of the many coffee cafes around me in mumbai i am attacked by a variety of accents from the typical northie accent to the typical southie accent and then suddenly a hear someone speaking in an american accent which screams out for mercy..the accent that is.

many of us today work in contact centres, thats the glorified word for call centers, which cater to clients around the globe.
i personally have nothing against call centers or their employees. the only thing that hurts me is that we get so engrossed in their way of working that we forget the way we speak....we happily put on a fake accent which is no where close to the way those people actually speak. to top it off some of us even change out names so harvinder becomes harry and ankit becomes andy.
whats more funny is that people sop associating with our real names.

maybe pseudo accents and pseudo names make us look cooler make us stand out in the crowd, but to what extent are we ready to go.