"Angrez ho tum toh!"

This is something I never came across earlier in life, but somethings happen for the first time.

People, at my age, often say that the accent with which a person speaks is a prerequisite for judging his/her characteristics. The fact is that it does create an impression of a person in the minds of the people watching him/her speak. Just like people with fake accents are very much likely to have fake personalities and are most likely to be multi-faceted.

Anyway, the incident that made me think about this was that M sir today com(pli)mented me, saying, "angrez ho tum toh!!". All I said was "Sir, I am from R1". (Probably it sounded like "sirr, I am from arrr1")

May be I have an accent or, I don't. I seriously dunno. May be because I have loads of cousins who speak in their accented way. Probably, I grasped their accent and started talking in such a manner. May be, may be not.

May be, M sir speaks accented english and because I have a tendency to adapt to the surroundings, I too start speaking in an accented way unknowingly! I don't know! It is probably the people around me who know it better.

I have never ever thought about THIS but this incident triggered me to do so. Quite funny that those words are still in my head, "angrez ho tum toh!!"

And I'm still amused over this com(pli)ment.