The one who is serving us is a plumb, red-faced, with a head of blond hair supporting a Christmas decoration of a small Santa hat on the right side.
Does: Introduces the subject or flight attendant who is serving them. Sensory details like red-faced, blond hair, etc are used to paint an image of this subject.
Russian accent(s), Italian accent(s), Spanish accent(s), Portuguese accent(s), Zimbabwean accent(s), Ivorian accent(s), Polish accent(s), Chinese accent(s), Singaporean accent(s) and every other accent in the world. I respect them for the richness of their history and cultural diversity.
Does: Many different accents over the world, whether it be Russian, Italian, Spanish etc. are acknowledged and play a crucial role in the richness of history and cultural diversity.
I personally love and appreciate accents simply because they are human.
Says: Shows gratitude to all accents because they are human and rich in their own ways
The quest then should become more about regarding every accent as thick, so is American and British. An accent is thick to those who don’t speak it and it this difference that thickness should be measured from. Instead of the apprentice having his ego bruised, he should reply by saying “master, your accent is also thick to my ears.” This way both of them end up looking at their canvases through each other’s eyes
Does: Provides a solution in regards to describing an accent as "thick." In terms, realizing that every accent is think to those who don't speak it and looking at their way of socialization through each other's eyes.
But pragmatically speaking, it will be impossible to drop the word and so we might need a campaign of empowerment around the word. The idea is to address the issues of power within the realm of accents and redistribute it evenly in order to galvanize the disenfranchised. For many years, the powerful have dictated that other accents apart from Englishand American are not good accents
Says: Introduces the idea to drop the word "thick" in terms of accents and find a way to redistribute the issues of power within the realm of accents.
Their strokes are thicker they say, and those who say it are either the masters with power or those assimilated apprentices.
Does: The underdeveloped apprentices have rougher, thicker accents that do not blend with "norm." Provides sensory details to highlight this claim.
“You have a thick accent”is said to those apprentices who are incapable of stroking the canvas like the master.
Says: Introduces the apprentices who have not mastered the skills of different accents.
Those around him have a love/hate relationship towards him. They love him because subconsciously they want to be like him from years of conditioning that says the master’s way is the best. But they hate him at the same token because he has the master’s skill and they don’t
Does: Describes the relationship between apprentices with higher level skills with different accents and apprentices who have yet mastered other accents. Explains why the relationship is negative between the two
What becomes even more interesting to observe in the world of accents is not just how the master treats the apprentices but also how the apprentices treat each other. An apprentice who has happened to emulate the ways of the master from having being abroad with him, upon coming back to his country, might end up belittling the other apprentices saying, “your accent is funny” and laugh. He has now become the master in disguise, the judge of accents and the punisher of the deviants
Says: Apprentices begin as students, under the teachings of master. They pick up on the masters ways of speaking long enough to become a master in disguise.
accents are a deviation from the norm;
Says: Accents are outcast to the accepted or normal standard of speaking
Some have told me that I don’t have an “African” accent and others have told me I have a “thick” accent. Recently two acquaintances both agreed that I have a “German” accent,
Does: Provides examples of interaction with other people to show how people mistake their accent
theyoung man sitting beside me turns to me and now I can register his face
Says: They can now register the looks of passenger beside them
Many times my accent has been the subject of interest from people.
Says: Many people mistake the accent of our main character
His eyes unlike that of the flight attendant are olive green, calm but excited. He introduces himself, Hans. I reciprocate without a handshake. There is no room. He tells me where he is from, Netherlands, and he asks me where I am from
Does: Describes the image of this new discovered face with sensory details and introduces the beginning of their interaction
friends and I were talking about accents
Says: Character and friends conversing about accents
British and Americans don’t have accents because they are the norm from which everything else can be perpendicularly or horizontally placed. They are the masters and everyone else is an apprentice.
Does: Describes and provides examples of the accepted "norm" in other countries while everyone else is an outcast working to perfect these other languages.
flight attendants are serving dinner.
Says: Flight attendants are beginning to serve dinner
that accents are not signs of superiority but nuances of socialization, that him speaking as the master didn’t carry anything intrinsically superior but it was an indication of the environment he grew up in. Upon inquiring I found out that he had studied in a British school.
Does: Describes the negative attributes of having an accent to a friend. Accents are not a form of superiority but outcasts of socialization