Accent

focuses on the idea that accents should not be the focus point when talking about language the use of grammar should be the main focus point that people should talk about. Hannah just believes that it’s ironic for people to judge each other because of their accents. I believe she has a great point. How can we judge someone with an accent when what they are saying should be more important. In todays society it is so sad how we take it upon ourselves to laugh and joke at someones accent. Majority…

she “needs to lose her accent” if she is serious about acting. At first, I felt kind of offended that he would tell her that, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. I believe that Mr. Cortés didn’t mean no harm by his remark, but more of a good intention. If Lupita can learn to lose her accent, she can portray the characters as they are making the performance a better experience. It can help her with better opportunities and allow her to learn different accents from across the…

here use a different kind of English that I am not used to. American English is actually a lot more different than I imagined back home. Almost all the accent in every word and sentences are different and I even noticed some difference in spelling here. I study in ULM (University of Louisiana at Monroe) which is located in southern part…

traveled to and across the United States left their mark on various regions as they brought their accents, such as African languages molding dialects of the South and how French and English is intermingled by Cajuns in Louisiana. However, the documentary demonstrates and highlights how people tend to create stereotypes for people who do not speak the same way they do and how people may even change their accent to be accepted. Because the filmmakers used many examples of regional speech and the…

English. Subtitles are used recurrently for multiple characters throughout the show, which differentiate it from any of the other shows that are or can be observed. It seems there is a rising attention brought to the struggle with southern dialects by the inclusion of these subtitles. For the viewer, it almost implies that southerners are backwards, uneducated, and are unable to communicate in the ways in which the general audience is able to communicate. It seems that the language barrier is…

endlessly and disrespected because of my diversity. Born and raised of West Indian Heritage, students made my life a living hell because I spoke with an accent. “Where are you from?” instantly began the conversation. It indicated what I said and how it was said, especially since it was delivered with a Caribbean accent. I quickly realized that my accent was the first thing people noticed about me. Answering questions in class became a struggle; students didn’t quite understand what I was saying…

emphasizing the importance of collaboration. However the important take away is not this heartwarming lesson, but rather the way that global communities stereotype those with a standard American accent, such as the one used by both Remy and Linguini. According to Jessica Love of The American Scholar, European accents are typically perceived as high class and knowledgeable in foreign…

since everyone utilizes it differently allowing people to show who they are. When I was in the sixth grade, I attended a summer camp where many of the campers were from Tennessee. Living in Alabama, I believed that I had a southern accent, but these campers made my accent seem nonexistent. Many people have stories like this one where they sound different or used different words than the people that they are speaking with at the time. In James Baldwin’s essay, he discussed how various ways of…

In the early 20th century Europeans were not considered, to American’s standard, as white—even if some Europeans were clearly Caucasians (Omi and Winant, pg. 21). Then in the early 1900s, Americans adopted the phrase “separate but equal”. Now in the 21st century, people, regardless or color, now have the same opportunities for a better life. While people of different backgrounds aren’t looked down upon much anymore, nothing is perfect. There are still those few individuals who simply cannot…

season. There are two pure orange pigments, Chrome orange and Realgar.Other shades of orange were popularly found in oil paintings and water colors. The complementary color of orange is a greenish - blue color. Orange is used mostly as an accent color, bringing out the other colors around it. It wasn't until around the 70’s when orange became a popular color, where it became symbolic for bright and eye catching garments. To help advance the colors evolution…