Comments on: Guy fakes "Mexican" accent to classmates as prank, then reveals shocking lack of accent

By: Petzl

Petzl — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:14:00 +0000

Why doesn’t he also affect a limp and a stutter?
Then he can be the Mexican Keyser Soze.

By: puppybeard

puppybeard — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:21:00 +0000

You forget that on the internet, a white american lad is the type-specimen for homo sapiens. Everything else is a deviation.

By: Sparg

Sparg — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:45:00 +0000

I figured he’d end his presentation by crediting the class with helping him lose his “accent”.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:13:00 +0000

There is a cockney accent joke just waiting to get me banned….

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:29:00 +0000

It’s an accentless American accent. Not sure what part of that is hard to understand.

By: greebo

greebo — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:21:00 +0000

For fun, I think you should go and make that assertion in a crowded English pub. Hilarity will certainly ensue.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:31:00 +0000

Where’d he go to school?

By: Repurposed

Repurposed — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:00:00 +0000

I used to do a similar troll, but it was actually more of a jerkish reflex.

People will occasionally speak very slowly and loudly to me (I’m Asian) before I’ve so much as opened my mouth. Every now and then I’ll play along for a while then switch back to my Australian-accented English. The thing is, often when I don’t play along, someone will say ‘You speak good English for an Asian’ or some like phrase.

You might think, ‘hilarious!’ but really, when someone’s first reaction is to stereotype you, you see the impact everywhere from your career to who will stand next to you on the train.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:53:00 +0000

In American English, we do have an accent that’s considered accentless.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Well some very sophisticated people are very hard to impress. Rubes like me think he rocks.

By: Rock Hardwood

Rock Hardwood — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:31:00 +0000

Moar of lady in green plz.

By: Kelly M

Kelly M — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:45:00 +0000

Weak trolling, if anything.
This is more like the blase feeling I would get watching the theater majors preen for attention during lunchtime. As a prank, its only mildly amusing, esp given the time that went into it.In the end I’m left with that this guy is one 1000s of people who can fake an accent. He just bothered with if for a longer period of time to gather some nonplussed responses on his phone camera. /yawn”Hey I faked a Mexican accent for a few months” Pro level? Hardly.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:23:00 +0000

Vay vould you not haff David Hasselhoff als your idol, vay would it be a gifaway?!?

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Pro-level trolling.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:14:00 +0000

I watched the whole thing waiting for the point of all of it.. some kind of cultural tolerance message, or something?.. but.. nothing. Just trollin for 4 months. Love it.

By: Ashley Coats

Ashley Coats — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:56:00 +0000

I also thought of Arastoo! I laughed my butt off when he tried to go back into the middle-eastern accent like he hadn’t just yelled with an American accent. Ha.

By: Sigmund_Jung

Sigmund_Jung — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:54:00 +0000

Well played, sir.

But… he spent 4 months without actually making any friends — and the one he made was still dupped. Now I understand why people call Facebook “social”.

By: greebo

greebo — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:38:00 +0000

No, no! Xeni assures us he has a “shocking lack of accent”. Any American accent you can hear is merely your unpatriotic ears deceiving you.

By: pduggie

pduggie — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:35:00 +0000

Was there a point?

By: jccalhoun

jccalhoun — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:56:00 +0000

As someone who has taught Public Speaking I am very curious to know what his teacher thought about it.

By: anansi133

anansi133 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:52:00 +0000

The web is like X-ray spectacles for (some) bigotry.

By: Bodhipaksa

Bodhipaksa — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:51:00 +0000

Reminds me of the character Arastoo Vaziri in “Bones,” who had a Middle-eastern accent for several seasons, only to reveal that he’d been faking it so that people wouldn’t find it odd that he was a devout Muslim. It was a bit of a weird premise, but a nice fake-out.

By: Adam Christie

Adam Christie — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:48:00 +0000

I posit that he does in fact have an American accent.

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:27:00 +0000

I’m guessing he’s enrolled in college after finishing his army service and his college requires all students to take Speech 101.

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:17:00 +0000

He’s very good at the Mexican accent. Almost too good.

By: Matt Fisher

Matt Fisher — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Seems like a lot of trouble, actually taking a class, just to prank some kids.