What Are You Doing Right Now
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Sitting on Delta 5140 from White Plains to Detroit. Horrible little plane that I do not fit in at all. Luckily this is not a long flight. This is awful. I'm all twisted because my shoulders are significantly wider than the available space.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sitting on Delta 5140 from White Plains to Detroit. Horrible little plane that I do not fit in at all. Luckily this is not a long flight. This is awful. I'm all twisted because my shoulders are significantly wider than the available space.
I feel your pain. I've been in that boat since I was...14 or so.
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Eating lunch. Got KFC today. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, insert comments from @PSX_Defector as to "this is why you're fat"
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Recovering from my first root canal. The after pain is worse than the procedure itself.
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@Nic said:
Recovering from my first root canal. The after pain is worse than the procedure itself.
Ouch! Sorry to hear that man!
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Feel better soon @Nic
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Accents. And I could hear other accents in the background. I suppose it could have been somewhere else, but that was unlikely.
I get this a lot from people. Remember that call centers in both NJ and Dallas, as examples, are often nearly all staffed with people with accents. I've gotten tons of people making assumptions when calling NJ. While there are many call centers in India, there are many in the US and you have no way to tell them apart. That's an assumption you can never make. You are just as likely to be upset with US labour as offshore labour.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no. You can tell the difference of a foreign worker versus one onshore.
One phrase, do the needful.
Another way, the ones onshore done sound like they have marbles in their mouth. Native speakers don't have this. Remember that call centers only hire goons at the beginning of their careers, so many of them have "fluency" in English but still have noticeable cadence of how they use it. English syntax is quite different. And they can't make the sounds properly. I am a cunning linguist, I hear it all.
And I don't know where you find your call center goons, but I've worked for some of the largest ones in Dallas. None of them only hire H1Bs. And the one that did, good old Software Spectrum, promptly lost big contracts because of it. There is a smattering of foreign workers, but vast majority of them are local. That includes Stream, Frontier, AT&T, TelVista, T-Mobile, State Farm and Cisco. The reason they hire onshore is because the vast majority of offshore goons suck serious ass. Can't even follow a script. I call it dot logic, somehow they twist and turn anything into thinking that it's no longer their problem.
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@thanksaj said:
Eating lunch. Got KFC today. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, insert comments from @PSX_Defector as to "this is why you're fat"
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@PSX_Defector said:
@thanksaj said:
Eating lunch. Got KFC today. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, insert comments from @PSX_Defector as to "this is why you're fat"
I only eat when I'm hungry!
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@PSX_Defector said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Accents. And I could hear other accents in the background. I suppose it could have been somewhere else, but that was unlikely.
I get this a lot from people. Remember that call centers in both NJ and Dallas, as examples, are often nearly all staffed with people with accents. I've gotten tons of people making assumptions when calling NJ. While there are many call centers in India, there are many in the US and you have no way to tell them apart. That's an assumption you can never make. You are just as likely to be upset with US labour as offshore labour.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no. You can tell the difference of a foreign worker versus one onshore.
One phrase, do the needful.
Another way, the ones onshore done sound like they have marbles in their mouth. Native speakers don't have this. Remember that call centers only hire goons at the beginning of their careers, so many of them have "fluency" in English but still have noticeable cadence of how they use it. English syntax is quite different. And they can't make the sounds properly. I am a cunning linguist, I hear it all.
And I don't know where you find your call center goons, but I've worked for some of the largest ones in Dallas. None of them only hire H1Bs. And the one that did, good old Software Spectrum, promptly lost big contracts because of it. There is a smattering of foreign workers, but vast majority of them are local. That includes Stream, Frontier, AT&T, TelVista, T-Mobile, State Farm and Cisco. The reason they hire onshore is because the vast majority of offshore goons suck serious ass. Can't even follow a script. I call it dot logic, somehow they twist and turn anything into thinking that it's no longer their problem.
This is true. Those that have lived in the states for any length of time quickly stop using phrases they realize are not common to any English except the fake version they learned. Granted, American English has its quirks, but still.
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Trying to find out if a Dell XT2 supports port multiplexing on eSATA????
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@thanksaj said:
This is true. Those that have lived in the states for any length of time quickly stop using phrases they realize are not common to any English except the fake version they learned. Granted, American English has its quirks, but still.
Ummm... did you just call The Queen's English "fake English"?
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@Dominica said:
@thanksaj said:
This is true. Those that have lived in the states for any length of time quickly stop using phrases they realize are not common to any English except the fake version they learned. Granted, American English has its quirks, but still.
Ummm... did you just call The Queen's English "fake English"?
I would assume that they speak The Queen's English in the UK, right? There are similarities between the speaking styles of British and Indian people, but I can always understand a Brit. I'm lucky if I understand most Indian people.
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@thanksaj Depends on what part of the UK (there are many geographical accents) and what you consider to be "The Queen's English". My vote on that goes to a solid Oxford accent.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thanksaj Depends on what part of the UK (there are many geographical accents) and what you consider to be "The Queen's English". My vote on that goes to a solid Oxford accent.
My point is that the two accents, and more importantly speech patterns, are very different. That either means that they speak a convoluted form of The Queen's English in India, or that the UK does not in general speak using The Queen's English, which means that even if that is supposed to be "proper" English, it's like Old English, and is no longer used or accepted for daily speech.
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@thanksaj The adoption of a second language by a colonized population is bound to result in slight differences in dialect. Indians speak British English, including many British turns of phrase. At one point, the colonists of the Original 13 also spoke British English.
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@Dominica said:
@thanksaj The adoption of a second language by a colonized population is bound to result in slight differences in dialect. Indians speak British English, including many British turns of phrase. At one point, the colonists of the Original 13 also spoke British English.
Yeah, I don't think "slight differences" quite accurately encapsulates it...
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Good morning everyone.. Finally I'm back to work
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@Joyfano said:
Good morning everyone.. Finally I'm back to work
Glad you're feeling better!
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@thanksaj said:
@Joyfano said:
Good morning everyone.. Finally I'm back to work
Glad you're feeling better!
Yes Thanks.. ready to drink some beer for weekend
