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Indians are so hospitable. I got an ovation the other day
from a roomful of Indian 20-year-olds just for reading perfectly the
following paragraph: "A bottle of bottled water held 30 little turtles. It
didn't matter that each turtle had to rattle a metal ladle in order to get a
little bit of noodles, a total turtle delicacy. The problem was that there
were many turtle battles for less than oodles of noodles."
I was sitting in on an "accent neutralization" class at the Indian call
center 24/7 Customer. The instructor was teaching the would-be Indian call
center operators to suppress their native Indian accents and speak with a
Canadian one — she teaches British and U.S. accents as well, but these youths
will be serving the Canadian market. Since I'm originally from Minnesota,
near Canada, and still speak like someone out of the movie "Fargo," I gave
these young Indians an authentic rendition of "30 Little Turtles," which is
designed to teach them the proper Canadian pronunciations. Hence the rousing
applause..........
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30 Little Turtles
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/opinion/29FRIE.html?hp
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: February 29, 2004 - BANGALORE, India
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