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.)
 
Grease said:
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.)
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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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