Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 Well, I say PEN for a writing instrument...lol. My cleaning lady is from Mexico and she was telling me what her plans were for New Years Eve. Her husband was going to cook some dish that started with a B. I asked her what that was, b/c I never heard of it. She was trying hard to think of the English translation and finally said " cow head " . She said he cooks it for 8-10 hours. It didn't dawn on me until later that she meant cow brains!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2002 Report Share Posted January 2, 2002 EGADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and speaking of accents.......i have been giggling to myself over here! cuz going to WV is sooooo much fun listening to everyone. :0))))) wrote: > Well, I say PEN for a writing instrument...lol. > > My cleaning lady is from Mexico and she was telling me what her plans > were for New Years Eve. Her husband was going to cook some dish that > started with a B. I asked her what that was, b/c I never heard of > it. She was trying hard to think of the English translation and > finally said " cow head " . She said he cooks it for 8-10 hours. It > didn't dawn on me until later that she meant cow brains!! > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 In a message dated 5/20/2005 6:17:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, nucleus24@... writes: I pick up accents very easily with my implant. You know, today in the Seattle Times, front page, there is an article about Northwest dialect,, maybe you can pick up MY accent! Lee Suprised to find out that our COT and CAUGHT sound the same in the NW, everywhere else, natives say it differently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Hi Patsy, I'm all for library tapes and read along books rather than listening practice on something. That way you can vary the hearing, rather than listening to the same thing over and over. I can understand most accents. The one that absolutely, positively is impossible for me to understand is East Indian. I can be looking at the person and not get it. I understand people with Dutch, New York, English, French, and even South African accents. But East Indian just sounds so sing song to me. And sad to say, if you have a problem with your computer, your on line service, OR your local telephone, the person who answers the phone is in New Delhi or somewhere close by. So I rely on e mail for those problems. 9 years post implant, still can't get the East Indian accents. But my neighbors with typical hearing don't understand them either!! The Original Subject: Re: Patsy , I got some learning tapes from the library but I'm afraid they are the wrong kind so I'm going back again tomorrow to get some others. And thanks about the accent I'm not very good with accents at all. Thro I'm an excellent lip reading accents still get me. Patsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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