I got hate comments because of my Indian Accent

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by TurcoEspanol

Not too long ago I was blessed with this

absolute gem of a

comment on my youtube video.

Doobie, dooba, deebie, Indian

man voice can't understand.

At first I thought this was just a one

off thing, somebody

poking fun at an Indian accent.

How bad could it be? Boy was I wrong

A bit further down the rabbit hole and I

discovered that some of my

other Asian counterparts were

also subjected to this mockery.

There's clearly more to Accents than what

first meets the eye, and I want to

explore exactly what it is.

Accents are a very curious thing.

We are speaking the same language, yet we

sound so different,

sometimes so different,

that we question whether we are speaking

the same language at all.

This video never ceases to amaze me.

Two members of the

parliament of the same country,

struggling to understand each other in a

language that they invented.

So accents are kind of constellations of

different aspects of speech.

So you have something that's more

systemic, if you like, to do with system.

So you can have like an

inventory of speech sounds,

and that might be different in one accent

compared to another accent,

competing Scottish

English with Anglo-English.

So Anglo-English has more vowel sounds

than Scottish English.

Conversely, Scottish English has two more