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What do you think of successful, educated people who pronounced English words funny like 'borjer' for burger?

  • 'powent' for point, 'elemenTAHry' for elementary, 'baysikol' for bicycle, 'kaledz' for college, 'torn' for turn, 'dividiviby' for divided by, 'tie-miss' for times as in multiply, 'isteyts' for states and the p and b sounds for the letters f and v respectively. does this mean that spoken english is not that necessary in the philippines to be a successful politician, businessman, lawyer, doctor educator, etc.

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    You're right. Spoken English is not necessary in the Philippines to be a successful doctor, lawyer, educator, etc. Unless your job involves interacting and conducting business with foreigners, why should speaking English the way an American does or the way a Brit does be a requirement? Having said that, I still think that it would be impressive for someone to take the effort to learn the proper phonetics in whatever language he or she chooses to speak. It tells people that you care about perfection, and that you have the capability to learn things above and beyond what is expected of you. Of course, most people will always have some sort of an accent. This is not exclusive to Filipinos, mind you. Anyone who has a different native language, and learns English later in life will have some sort of a discernable accent. The Filipinos, the French, the Russians, the Southerners, the Bostonians, etc. As long as people can understand you enough for you to be functional, that should be fine. I worked in a prestigious laboratory in the US for a few years. The brightest post-docs could barely speak a word of English... one was Chinese and the other was Russian. Didn't matter. They got the job done. Oh, and by the way, why can't some Americans correctly spell "calendar" (most of them spell it "calender"? And why can't they differentiate between "then" and "than" (She is smarter THEN you.)? Any Pinoy who has had a decent education can do both of the above! :P

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If I hear my friends say those words, I'd laugh. Joke. I don't mind hearing English words mispronounced by "highly" educated people like lawyers, doctors, or even teachers. Many people from the southern provinces have a difficulty pronouncing some words because some sounds are not used or are rarely used in their native dialects. I believe some of these people have a good command of the English language - in the written form that is. It is not fair to "dyadz dis pipol dyas bicos op da pani wi dey ispik."

Jun C (曹俊仔)

It just proves that they are still human.

Jaimee H.

You are being too critical. When English is spoken as a second language, there is bound to be funny sounds or pronunciations. Listen to Italians and French speak English. They're are bad as native Tagalog speakers are and you will find their sound amusing and funny as well. I have an American friend who teased this French visitor not to pronounce the Target store as 'Tar-jay. P.S. The Japanese pronunciation for McDonalds sounds like "maca-donaldo". Now that sounds funny.

Ian B

At the time of my parents, understanding English is a good thing but pronouncing it with a twang isn't necessary. My grandparents learn English and Spanish. My grandparents are teacher/educators. They speak and write English ok and would sometimes pronounce words as you have written above. Yet I never did saw it as a flaw. In fact I am quite proud my grannies can communicate well in English. To answer your question, I can't blame them, English is not our mother tongue. You don't have to learn English like Americans to be successful of course!

battgirl

i understood every word..i don't see a problem. hmmmmm.i think you need to have your eyes checked. lol

OUT OF HAND

it means they are still people and not machines

hettitiern

I think that your question reflects different dialects that exist in the United states. People are still taught to pronounce words differently. I have had the privilege of working with folks from around the world and find that they will adopt the accents and pronunciation of the people that they learn from or work with on a daily basis. I believe that you will find this phenomenon exists in most languages.

Ken B

what's the proper english anyway besides those taught in western and british dictionaries on how it is pronounced? Even americans in the north, south, coast,midwest, west ,etc have different pronunciations.

it's the accent... don't get me wrong, the English language has lots of varieties especially when it comes to pronouncing words... Australian, British, American, African, French, Chinese, Filipino, Indian accents and more...

Juan C

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