The Tao of those who feign Ignorance of English
Feb 26, 2020 3:16:41 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Feb 26, 2020 3:16:41 GMT -5
The Tao of those who feign Ignorance of English
One would assume that those who know how to speak English properly would do so all the time. unfortunately, humans are not that simple. Humans are motivated by many emotions and reasons and will use deception in their service. Below are some reasons why some individuals will feign ignorance of English.
1. To Order to deprive a customer of services
It is far easier to discriminate against someone if you can do so while looking disoriented or foreign to to culture of the nation you are in. You see, the victim might feel that he is misunderstanding the racist. Surely he means no harm. Maybe it is we who are misunderstanding him. This provides the cover the racist needs to get away with a variety of things he would otherwise be unable to.
2. In order to appear exotic.
Such persons might admire foreign accents as being exotic. So they might feel that feigning a deep French accent, or Spanish accent imbues them with a certain charm which they would otherwise not be able to convey. So they go about pronouncing words like the late Latino actor Ricardo Montalban or like the cartoon character Pepe Le Pew.
3. In order to prevent learning.
Sometimes such persons don't want sometime to be hired. So if they are assigned to teach the person the ropes, they will make themselves as hard to understand as possible by adopting a very strong foreign accent. After the mission is accomplished-such persons can sometimes be heard speaking perfect English. As if by some miracle, gone are all the mispronunciations he had been just recently uttering ad which had you baffled. Now you can understand every single word he says because now he is enunciating each word clearly. It seems as if they want the victim t know that they had done it on purpose.
4. To order to annoy those who are bothered by foreign accents
Let's face it, humans enjoy annoying other humans and often do so just for the heck of it. They enjoy provoking a rise in those who have strong opinions. They don't like cigarette smoke>? People will smoke. Don't like loud music at three AM in the morning? People will play music at that time/ It bothers you that people don't say thanks when you do them a favor? People will not thank you in order to get on your nerves. The list is endless and includes people making as if they can't speak English in order to bother those who feel that knowing English in the USA should be mandatory.