Humor: Best english accent in a knife pitch

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What do you get when you combine an english accent with a non-native english speaker? Maybe something like this:
[video=youtube;Lead_gDb48w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lead_gDb48w&sns=em[/video]
 
LOL! Hilarious! He must have been watching Mary Poppins! :D
 
LOL. That's even better than the Japanese Australasian who goes to my church... (Hearing an Aussie accent come from the mouth of an Asian is confusing, btw.)
 
LOL. That's even better than the Japanese Australasian who goes to my church... (Hearing an Aussie accent come from the mouth of an Asian is confusing, btw.)

I knew a Chinese guy from Sydney who was born there and had a perfect Australian accent. It wasn't odd to me. If that's where you're born or learn to speak the language, that's what you'll sound like. Like I'm U.S.-born Japanese with a standard American accent. Yet some people say, "How did you learn to speak English so well?" As if it's incomprehensible I could have been born here. I also knew some Chinese from Hong Kong, and Chinese and Indians from Singapore or Malyasia, who spoke their English in a perfect British Received Pronunciation accent. If you closed your eyes and listened to them, you might think they were white upper-crust British who studied in English boarding schools.

It's odd how many people expect Asians to only speak English in a certain way. What most people don't seem to take into account is how funny many English-only Americans sound when they try to speak other languages, especially some of the Asian languages.

Jim
 
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superi technico pershoney!

DX, as in dealextreme? then the quality must be top notch!
 
That video makes me want to try a few of their knives.

After the first few minutes, I no longer was paying attention to the accent but was interested in the products.
 
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