Saturday, June 16, 2007

Speech habits hinder acceptance.

Proposal by commission on integration and cohesion to bar foreign origin British nationals from entering UK, on a plea to improve racial harmony, seems quite right in time.
For how long we need to procrastinate paradigm?
The proposal seems not to further on racial differences, but to have a check on it, to help you understand the true meaning of communication, to help you understand the importance of the right pronunciation of words, help people learn to respect sounds.
But how?
The whole concept seems so problematic for most of the South- Asians to actually make them do something about it. As they don’t know exactly which way to go, and they end up going nowhere.
Only hindrance is the understanding of physical arrangement of letters.
Most of the South- Asians have wrongly attached sound files with corresponding physical arrangements in their brains. Blame it on the education system. They pick mutilated sound files when they speak. English spelling structure is the easiest than the rest of the languages worldwide. They know words, their application, and every other possible thing, but not the right pronunciation. Mutilated sound files are hard wired in their brains.
Accent is not that much difficult to acquire, is like a rhythm to a song. But the mutilated word sounds kills their speech. They not only speak English language words like the way they do, they also write their native language words in English alphabetic script with the same perceptual understanding. The perceptual difference of the rhythm won’t make much of a difference if the lyrics are understandable. We have to get our basics right.
But the other side of the story is quite amazing. Instead of learning the right way, most of the South- Asians find it hard to suppress sniggers while listening to an American or Britt accent. Especially when an American or Britt read a typical Southeast Asian name spelled by South- Asians in English alphabetic script.