[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Accented English

[Evil Flame]

> As a native New Mexican I get soooo tired of this. Sometimes when
> visting other states being told you speak really good english, you
> don't even have a spanish accent. I never even learned spanish until
> I was in high school and I don't speak it that well even now.
>
> Oh and I also love this one "did you have to get a visa?" No but I
> have a mastercard. OR Do you have cars there and paved roads?
> Running water?  Do you you still have to ride horses?
>
> I'd like to know what they teach these people in school. Granted New
> Mexico doesn't have the best educational system in the country but we
> at least know all the states.
>

*chuckles*  On a related note, being from Texas, I get the horse comment a
lot. (I've probably been on a horse a hand full of times in my life.)  And
yeah, we get comments about the accent thing all the time.  I have trouble
on the phone when talking to people from other parts of the country.  They
automatically knock about 60 IQ points off my intelligence and ask me to
repeat things and spell them because of my accent.  But I guess I should
consider myself lucky.  They at least know Texas is an American state.

-Evil Flame