Discussion of the week- Accents in t show

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teenietoons

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Posted: 19 years ago

.....okay so i was able to catch a couple of minutes of the re-runs from last week's episodes, and the part i got to watch was when adi and tara decide to get pizza.......

so just to set the record straight, the word "pizza" is not pronounced "pit-zah" the correct pronunciation of the word is "peat-zah"

it really bothers me when adi pronounces it the wrong way, because it sounds really stupid and retarded. on teh one hand, they make themselves seem all cool and westernized and stuff, with their fast food joints and their clothes and whatnot, and on the other hand, they can even say the words right. what are the directors smoking?

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Posted: 19 years ago

ahahaha....i'm thinking your from usa...and i hear what u saying. but u gotta understand that the way we here in the states say things is not always the way everybody around the world would say it. and honestly.....how do we know how to say pizza the right when we arent italians...RIGHT?

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teenietoons

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Posted: 19 years ago

yeah i hear what you're saying too......but my point is that the actors in teh show are portrayed as "westernized". so it follows that they're language should be commensurate with the way they've been shown, esp if they're so well to do and all that. they're not tryign to be italian, that they'd pronounce it the italian way, right? (and btw, i think the italian pronunciation is somewhere close to the american one).

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Hetal

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Posted: 19 years ago

I see your point....they show actors such way that we have to assume that they are 99% into western culture....but at end of the day...they are not....they carry indian values....and i think most indians have mixed accent...british, their own, and little from movies....and that makes it different...so its not wrong....if we see around us...Maybe our family or friends or someone we know, have same accent....so i dont see anything wrong init....and pizza is italian food and they say Pizza very differently..

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kudi

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Posted: 19 years ago

i agree with hetal here .............how much ever we want to be westernized but at the end of the day we r indians and all carry different accents.
maybe the way we pronounce pizza here is prononuced differently in different countries according to their accent. if for instance we take name of any of the indian cuisine .....we will pronounce it correctly but maybe the people frm other countries may pronounce it according to their accent ..........btw it is a good discussion point ...........i think this cud be our next discussion of the week.

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Hetal

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Posted: 19 years ago

that's a good topic....

i also think....accent has to do with what language you speak, i mean what's your first-born language....for example...I'm gujarati.....so i'm tend to mix it up...and could say Pi-zzzaaa...you know what i mean...I have heard that alot...plus people who speak french, says it diffrently....

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Suvarna

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Posted: 19 years ago

I agree wid u shef.u r talking abt country , i hav observed ppl pronouncing same words in diif. manner in diff. regions of India itself.for eg:- sum ppl se chole bhature while sum se chula bhatura n stuff( i kno a silly 1 bt can't think of ne1 rite now.)Its true at d end of d de v r Indians n v all hav diff accents.

Ne ve nice topic 2 b discussed.

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preetijaiswal19

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Posted: 19 years ago

ya.... true... instead of saying pit-za and sounding dumb... they cud have just said "pizza" and sounded like how all Indians in India tend to pronounce it.... even I felt awkward to hear Adi saying pit-zah!!! 😆

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Rubal

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Posted: 19 years ago

i dunno, i think ppl in india tri too hard t b "western"(dis terms not used in the "west"). they shud focus on thr culture. it gets me so angri. y do they tri so hard t bcome westernized, it makes u look lyke a fool. jus say it how u say it in india.

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Hetal

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Posted: 19 years ago

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Originally posted by: manderley
i dunno, i think ppl in india tri too hard t b "western"(dis terms not used in the "west"). they shud focus on thr culture. it gets me so angri. y do they tri so hard t bcome westernized, it makes u look lyke a fool. jus say it how u say it in india.

calm down dear....but its true, what's wrong in our own culture?

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