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For me it's not the speed, it's all accent/pronunciation.

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:37 pm

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:37 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 2:10 pm On a conference call with three different IT professionals from India. I have such a hard time understanding them. My brain is going to be pickled after an hour of this.

I've worked with a lot of people in India for years. I just can't get the accent. I've tried and I feel horrible asking them to repeat themselves. At one point, I asked a guy to just IM me. I don't seem to have this problem with any other accent.

I know it doesn't help but in the past i've tried to put my ear closer to the speaker in the conference room to attempt to understand better. I also, for some reason, have been the go-to-guy who can kind of understand/decipher what our partners are saying...so I can't imagine what all the other people are hearing.

I usually have my headset on

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:13 pm For me it's not the speed, it's all accent/pronunciation.

Aren’t there a lot of Indians in Plano? Practice with the neighbors

Oh wait.....wrong guy

The company I work for is based in India. I get a lot of practice.

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Dude, I can get you a toe

I’m at Hertz picking up a car. I thought I had a shitty last name. Dude after me has the last name Coxwort.

This was the straw that may have broke the horse's hoof. Literally.
Guy is an "icon" to some. To me he's pretty much a ______________ .
Today's spotlight - Good cause, horrible execution.

Grandma wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:24 am I’m at Hertz picking up a car. I thought I had a shitty last name. Dude after me has the last name Coxwort.

I knew a girl whose last name was Dieckhaus, pronounced "Dickhouse". She was very happy to get married and drop that.

I was in either home room or a class with students with the last name Seimen and Weiner ( pronounced as wee-ner and see-man as expected ).

The substitutions during roll call would have to pronounce their names back to back and would always intentionally?? fuck it up only to be corrected.

Middle school laughter.

I used to work with a guy named Mike Dick. No one really cared or said anything. Until he changed his last name to Thompson. Then he was known as Mike Dick-Thompson.

pdub wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:24 pm I was in either home room or a class with students with the last name Seimen and Weiner ( pronounced as wee-ner and see-man as expected ).

The substitutions during roll call would have to pronounce their names back to back and would always intentionally?? fuck it up only to be corrected.

Middle school laughter.

i went to school with a Weiner

everyone asked her if her mom’s name was Ivanna

Kansas had a state rep named Harold Dyck back In the 60s.

Co-worker who I consider to also be a friend is a health nut. The way/s she exercises and eats is to me excessive and obsessive.
Problem is she now basically looks anorexic and sick - not healthy. Skin and bones.
I truly care about her. She's a good person.
I'm feeling it's probably as inappropriate to be truthful and tell her I feel she is way too skinny as it would be for me to tell a fat person they are way too fat.
Still, I am seriously concerned about her well being and am torn.
Should I say something to her? My concern with that is it would possibly (probably?) jeopardize our friendship but I also feel I should express that I care - because I do.

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TraditionKU wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:47 am leave an anonymous gift certificate to mcdonald’s, wendy’s, or the like on her desk

LOL
The crazy thing is if you looked at her and someone said they will give you $100 if you can guess if she is a vegetarian of not, I am confident most people would guess she is.
She isn't. She won't eat "unhealthy" bread but she'll actually eat a burger. At least she did a year or so ago.
Now it looks like she may only eat birdseed.

Speaking of fast-food........

Local Chick-fil-a manager often gives out freebees - but there is usually a catch.
Once in a blue moon she gets me. I think she's going to get me tonight. Why not? Right?


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defixione wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:59 pm Kansas had a state rep named Harold Dyck back In the 60s.

https://dyckarboretum.org/history/

Grandma wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:00 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:47 am leave an anonymous gift certificate to mcdonald’s, wendy’s, or the like on her desk

LOL
The crazy thing is if you looked at her and someone said they will give you $100 if you can guess if she is a vegetarian of not, I am confident most people would guess she is.
She isn't. She won't eat "unhealthy" bread but she'll actually eat a burger. At least she did a year or so ago.
Now it looks like she may only eat birdseed.

It does not necessarily follow that vegetarians don’t suffer from eating disorders or are universally healthy and have a low BMI.

Unfortunately many vegetarians make unhealthy food choices such as using heavy dressing on a salad, overloading on dairy and fats and eating fried food.

Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are of very high prevalence (recently) in countries like India where vegetarianism is highly prevalent. Even those who aren’t strictly vegetarian all the time are vegetarians for a majority of the time due to practical constraints. It’s being attributed to foods becoming generally richer, greater availability of fast food combined with a more sedentary lifestyle.