In college I had an Indian professor that always used to say calculator as kaliclaytor and another one that said ten issues like tennis shoes. Do you have any experiences with a foreign born professor that mispronounced words which were funny sounding?
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there`s a guy i know he dosent speak to clearly he said he went on holiday and was going on about fishing trips we all thought he said fish and chips.that macy gray song she says my world crumbles when your not here but when i first heard it i thought she said i ware goggles when your not here tee hee
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Not really, but when my oldest son was about 4 he was crazy about Thomas the Tank, we were out shopping one day and in the supermarket he started shouting about a Fu*king Troller...i was devastated as he'd never sworn before and everyone was looking at him with disgust. Anyway he kept on and on about it until one day Thomas the tank came on TV and he started shouting 'look mum, the fu*king troller' - it was the 'Fat Controller' off the cartoon!!! i nearly peed myself laughing!!
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I had an Indian Teaching Assistant that pronounced metric units of measure as "senTIMMeter", "milIMMiter", etc. A German math professor (Wolfgang Haken) with a very heavy accent pronounced "integer" with a hard "g". And I had one Chinese Computer Science prof with an extreme accent (I could only get about 3/4 of what he said) who pronounced "kluge" (a programmming workaround) as "kroodge".
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OMG YES! "De poitikill seastem diter-mynes dat you cAnnot be praysident if you are a juu."
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I also have a friend in conducting that recently moved into the country. We were conducting "row row row your boat" and he sang, "Row row row your boat, gently down the lake." We all died laughing. Now he says "Street" instead of "Stream" but we figured it was close enough.
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I had a statistics professor who pronounced it "stistics".
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Not so much with professors, but I remember one confusing incident when my friend's French mother called him in a panic and said that her car had been broken into. The way she placed the stresses on the words, she actually said her car had been broken in two, and there were several minutes of confusion as my friend tried to work out just how the hell this had happened!
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i had this science teacher back at school who used to say orgasm instead of organism all the time. lol XD
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I cannot think of a professor at all. However, an English teacher I once had told us about her little boy. He used to call dessert, buzzard.
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They are professors because of their knowledge, not of their ability to pronounce everything right.
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