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...ever want to go through that numbing mix of Cancun-like revelry and complete emotional isolation again? Because that’s of course what you inevitably get if you enroll in a university overseas, not to mention a healthy dose of being stared at because of your accent...
...trash talking does get quite a rise out of the other defensive players,”says Garcia, who normally lines up next to McBurney. “It’s quite funny to listen to with the Alabama accent...
KIRTAN RAISING: An antiphonal form of yoga gets an American accent and fills small arenas...
...wanted to, the musician who calls himself Krishna Das could not hide the fact that he was born on Long Island as Jeff Kagel. For one thing, there's his undeniably white skin, and when he sings in Hindi or Sanskrit, he does so with an undeniably American accent. But Das, who is known as K.D., has no desire to hide his New York roots or the fact that his musical style owes as much to the blues as to his Indian guru, Neem Karoli Baba...
Difficulties with accents rule out some potential continental crossovers as well. Dizzee Rascal, the spectacularly talented 18-year-old rapper and winner of this year’s Mercury, is tough to understand at the best of times. But for someone unacquainted with his East London wide-boy accent, his rapid, voice-cracking delivery is incomprehensible—let alone the fact that the garage idiom he has borrowed to underwrite his flow sounds almost entirely foreign to anyone raised on American...