Satya Nadella's spoken Engish

swapna wrote:...can be understood easily  by everyone who knows English. He speaks clearly in a mildly American accent that is free of regional Indian peculiarities and distortions. He sounds like an American who learned to moderate his American accent when he spent several years outside America with the Peace Corps. It's hard to understand the English spoken by the Indian-American, typical of whom is Vinod Khosla. One can't say the same about Nadella.

bw wrote:

swapna wrote:...can be understood easily  by everyone who knows English. He speaks clearly in a mildly American accent that is free of regional Indian peculiarities and distortions. He sounds like an American who learned to moderate his American accent when he spent several years outside America with the Peace Corps. It's hard to understand the English spoken by the Indian-American, typical of whom is Vinod Khosla. One can't say the same about Nadella.

what sort of accent do you have, swapna? you are not an indian, if i recall right.

bw wrote:i do know other people from hyd public school and they also have very polished accents - the elite indian school accent.

swapna wrote:

bw wrote:

swapna wrote:...can be understood easily  by everyone who knows English. He speaks clearly in a mildly American accent that is free of regional Indian peculiarities and distortions. He sounds like an American who learned to moderate his American accent when he spent several years outside America with the Peace Corps. It's hard to understand the English spoken by the Indian-American, typical of whom is Vinod Khosla. One can't say the same about Nadella.

what sort of accent do you have, swapna? you are not an indian, if i recall right.

mine is san franciscan catholic girls' school, and largely irrelevant. Yours?

swapna wrote:

bw wrote:i do know other people from hyd public school and they also have very polished accents - the elite indian school accent.

Jai says that there's no such thing, and that you have to subject a lawrence school alum to slow torture to get him to admit that he attended that school.

swapna wrote:

bw wrote:i do know other people from hyd public school and they also have very polished accents - the elite indian school accent.

Jai says that there's no such thing, and that you have to subject a lawrence school alum to slow torture to get him to admit that he attended that school.

bw wrote:

swapna wrote:

bw wrote:i do know other people from hyd public school and they also have very polished accents - the elite indian school accent.

Jai says that there's no such thing, and that you have to subject a lawrence school alum to slow torture to get him to admit that he attended that school.

lawrence school products usually don't have very good accents. i wasn't thinking of it as an elite school but more a rich kids' school.

swapna wrote:...can be understood easily  by everyone who knows English. He speaks clearly in a mildly American accent that is free of regional Indian peculiarities and distortions. He sounds like an American who learned to moderate his American accent when he spent several years outside America with the Peace Corps. It's hard to understand the English spoken by the Indian-American, typical of whom is Vinod Khosla. One can't say the same about Nadella.

Kris wrote:

swapna wrote:...can be understood easily  by everyone who knows English. He speaks clearly in a mildly American accent that is free of regional Indian peculiarities and distortions. He sounds like an American who learned to moderate his American accent when he spent several years outside America with the Peace Corps. It's hard to understand the English spoken by the Indian-American, typical of whom is Vinod Khosla. One can't say the same about Nadella.

>> I have just listened to him in a couple of clips for brief intervals. It seems like more or less standard American English with a few words that make him sound foreign. I have not heard Khosla. If he doesn't sound similar to Nadella,  that is surprising after years in an English speaking country much of which has presumably involved customer interface.

Rishi wrote:

Kris wrote:

swapna wrote:...can be understood easily  by everyone who knows English. He speaks clearly in a mildly American accent that is free of regional Indian peculiarities and distortions. He sounds like an American who learned to moderate his American accent when he spent several years outside America with the Peace Corps. It's hard to understand the English spoken by the Indian-American, typical of whom is Vinod Khosla. One can't say the same about Nadella.

>> I have just listened to him in a couple of clips for brief intervals. It seems like more or less standard American English with a few words that make him sound foreign. I have not heard Khosla. If he doesn't sound similar to Nadella,  that is surprising after years in an English speaking country much of which has presumably involved customer interface.

>>>Khosla fellow sounds like a typical NI.

He is also a "my country"  fellow. Saw him on 60 minutes pushing ethanol research so "his country" will become less dependent on oil imports. He was trying to sove "his country's" energy crisis.

Btw read what he is doing to Californians:  http://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/264901370/california-fights-billionaire-s-keep-out-sign-for-beach-access

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Rishi wrote:

Kris wrote:

swapna wrote:...can be understood easily  by everyone who knows English. He speaks clearly in a mildly American accent that is free of regional Indian peculiarities and distortions. He sounds like an American who learned to moderate his American accent when he spent several years outside America with the Peace Corps. It's hard to understand the English spoken by the Indian-American, typical of whom is Vinod Khosla. One can't say the same about Nadella.

>> I have just listened to him in a couple of clips for brief intervals. It seems like more or less standard American English with a few words that make him sound foreign. I have not heard Khosla. If he doesn't sound similar to Nadella,  that is surprising after years in an English speaking country much of which has presumably involved customer interface.

>>>Khosla fellow sounds like a typical NI.

He is also a "my country"  fellow. Saw him on 60 minutes pushing ethanol research so "his country" will become less dependent on oil imports. He was trying to sove "his country's" energy crisis.

Btw read what he is doing to Californians:  http://www.npr.org/2014/01/27/264901370/california-fights-billionaire-s-keep-out-sign-for-beach-access

boy looks like you really got your panties in a twist over that! never seen you so worked up over anything like that before. every other post of yours has a reference to this. sorry i messed you up so badly.

swapna wrote:

bw wrote:

swapna wrote:

bw wrote:i do know other people from hyd public school and they also have very polished accents - the elite indian school accent.

Jai says that there's no such thing, and that you have to subject a lawrence school alum to slow torture to get him to admit that he attended that school.

lawrence school products usually don't have very good accents. i wasn't thinking of it as an elite school but more a rich kids' school.

I hadn't been thinking about elite schools at all.

bw wrote:

swapna wrote:

bw wrote:

swapna wrote:

bw wrote:i do know other people from hyd public school and they also have very polished accents - the elite indian school accent.

Jai says that there's no such thing, and that you have to subject a lawrence school alum to slow torture to get him to admit that he attended that school.

lawrence school products usually don't have very good accents. i wasn't thinking of it as an elite school but more a rich kids' school.

I hadn't been thinking about elite schools at all.

jai? what happened to raj? update us please. also, what accents do raj and jai have?