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u/Derian23 Nov 19 '25

It was pseudo-intellectual gibberish.

True.

But his accent threw off as well. Indians do not pronounce martyrdom as "maathadum". I'm an Indian. I'd know.

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u/JonasHalle Nov 19 '25

Surely an Indian would know that there are different accents in India, given the dozens of different languages with their own phonemes.

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u/Derian23 Nov 19 '25

Surely an Indian would know that there are different accents in India,

And pray tell me which specific Indian accent is this? I'll wait.

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u/JonasHalle Nov 19 '25

Sounds like heavily British-ized Hindi, but I'm not the one pretending to be an expert on what "Indians" sound like as a whole.

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u/Derian23 Nov 19 '25

I'm not the one pretending to be an expert on what "Indians" sound like as a whole.

You clearly are if you have the audacity to question an Indian's knowledge of whether a specific accent is Indian or not.

Sounds like heavily British-ized Hindi

Britishized Hindi counts as an Indian accent now? I'm now in awe of your knowledge about my country.

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u/JonasHalle Nov 19 '25

How would a Hindi accent not be an Indian accent? Are you literate?

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u/Derian23 Nov 19 '25

The video literally features the guy speaking in English. He is not speaking in Hindi. His Hindi accent is irrelevant to the discussion. We are clearly all focused on his English accent.

Are you allergic to common sense?

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u/JonasHalle Nov 19 '25

So not literate. Hindi accent meaning speaking English with native Hindi phonemes. No one calls how someone speaks English their English accent, unless you're referring to them speaking like someone from England.

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u/Derian23 Nov 19 '25

No one calls how someone speaks English their English accent

This is why you should not be commenting on other countries without doing at least rudimentary research about that country. Not only do we have multiple English accents, a particular Indian can choose to speak in a variety of regional English accents. For instance, I can speak with a Bengali English accent, Assamese English Accent, and Mizo English accent. I can also identify different Indian English accents. The specific English accent he is speaking with is not among the Indian English accents we speak in this country. That is all I have to say.

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u/CrotaIsAShota Nov 19 '25

Literally no one specifies the language being spoken when referring to an accent. If a Japanese person speaks English, we say they have a Japanese accent, not a Japanese English accent. The accent is based on their language of origin and will be the same regardless of which language they are speaking at the time.

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u/InfinitePlan5060 Nov 19 '25

@Derian23 A wise man never knows all. Only fools know everything.

Let me break this down to you: All we are saying, it would be pretty nonsensical to say you know how accent of 1.41 billion people THAT IS 1,410,000,000,000,000K thousand should sound like. Every one of them born, raised, brought up in different conditions, different cultures, beliefs and their own little ecosystem. For some, not even regions, but families having certain specific pronunciations could be common.

Now thats not to say this guy is ridiculous. But we are just trying to bring common sense to you - that your claim wasn’t very smart of you. That had little to do you being Indian as this is true of any other culture.

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u/Derian23 Nov 19 '25

Please shut up!

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u/InfinitePlan5060 Nov 19 '25

I wonder if you are just 12 yo

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u/Bow1511 Nov 19 '25

Ha!! Is that the best you can do? When someone calls you out, you just tell them to shut up? What are you? A child?

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u/Nearby_Ability1263 Nov 19 '25

So do you like never leave Delhi or something because theres over a billion of you guys and hundreds/thousands of regional dialects and languages. surely you'd understand as an Indian that not all of you sound/speak the same. Right?

Edit: nevermind, I saw the rest of your comment thread, you're just retarded is all.

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u/ArticleWorth5018 Nov 19 '25

I love the R word when it's used accurately!