Their strokes are thicker they say, and those who say it are either the masters with power or those assimilated apprentices.
Does: explains how the ones who says that you have a thicker accent is only the masters or the assimilated apprentices
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“You have a thick accent”is said to those apprentices who are incapable of stroking the canvas like the master.
Says: how when someone says "You have a thick accent" it's said to the ones who are incapable of stroking the canvas like a master.
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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: Gives examples of all different kinds of the accents and how he respects and loves the accents and the cultural diversity of the world.
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would be silly to expect her to speak like the master. No one should be expected to speak like the master. We are not the master. We are the masters of our own accents.I personally love and appreciate accents simply because they are human.
Says: He loves all accents because we are human and that is what makes us all beautiful
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would be silly to expect her to speak like the master.
Says: It would be silly to expect her to speak like a master
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No one should be expected to speak like the master. We are not the master. We are the masters of our own accents.
Does: explains how no one is can speak like a master because we are the masters of our own accents
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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: Talks about how British and Americans don't have accents because it is considered (the Norm). and how some think the it is the master way of speaking and everyone else should learn from British and Americans.
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accents are a deviation from the norm; they are the imperfections, the squeaky table and the slanted hanged portrait on the wall.
Says: How accents are judged hard by others and looked down on.
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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, a comment I received with puzzlement
Does: Explaining how it confuses him when people says his accent sounds thick and from German, and some say he sounds African, and some says he has no African accent at all.
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Again, I am caught speechless, coffee in my mouth. The first thing I realize is that I don’t know how the accent from the Horn of Africa sounds like. I am puzzled to how the flight attendant and the young man both, who are Dutch, seem to be aware of thisparticular accent.“How does the accent from the Horn of Africa sound like?” I inquire. Now, he is the one who is caught speechless as he ponders my question. I feel the difficulty of answering my question but I let it linger there, like a scent of a cheap perfume in the air.Many times my accent has been the subject of interest from people.
says: how many people mistake his accent for something is isn't
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he is the one who is caught speechless as he ponders my question. I feel the difficulty of answering my question but I let it linger there, like a scent of a cheap perfume in the air.
Describes how the man was caught off guard and how uncomfortable he felt because he couldn't answer the question.
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How does the accent from the Horn of Africa sound like
Says: Asking how the accent from the horn of Africa sounded.
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It is snowy —I can almost imagine how icy it would feel on my fingertips. His eyes unlike that of the flight attendant are olive green,
Does: Describes the man in detail to let the reader envision what the writer was seeing.
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, theyoung man sitting beside me turns to me and now I can register his face.
Says: how when the man turned around he could register his face.
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her blue eyes reflecting the overhead light
Does: describes how blue her eyes looked as the light reflected off of them.
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I ask for black coffee two sugars
Says: I would like a black coffee and two sugars
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the flight attendants are serving dinner.
says: The flight attendants started serving dinner.
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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: Gives you a visual of who was serving the dinner and what they were wearing.
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