Posts Tagged ‘Italian’
Dictionary offers full menu of culinary terms to digest
Thursday, October 7th, 2004
Menus make great vocabulary lists, and “there’s no better way to remember a new vocabulary word than to eat it,” writes William Grimes, former restaurant critic for The New York Times, in “Eating Your Words: 2000 Words to Tease Your Taste Buds” (Oxford, $20). His culinary dictionary is interspersed with lists of 113 words for [...]
Besides jobs, U.S. accents also being exported to India
Thursday, July 8th, 2004
With the outsourcing of American jobs comes the exporting of American accents. In Bangalore, India—the Silicon Valley of the subcontinent—the booming customer service call center industry depends on coaching Indian workers to talk like they’re from Wisconsin. Sort of.
The process is called “accent neutralization.” But in reality, trainers are out to transform, not just tweak, [...]
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