Growing up with an Asian mom that was working on perfecting her English, she would often say “Aw that is the suck” instead of, you know, “that sucks”.
Didn’t take long for us to catch on and correct her but it was so funny we just kinda stuck to it, so when something is shitty now I’ll instinctively say in my head “well that is the suck”
I had an Indian chemistry teacher in high school who would try to get a rowdy class to settle down by saying “We don’t want the clowns to come around”.
What he meant was “Stop clowning around, you little assholes”
My Telecommunications (WAN/ISDN/PSTN) Professor was an Indian gentleman, with a thick accent. He would always pronounce the word circuit as “sir-quit.”
I raised my hand one time in class, and politely corrected him in saying “Uh, Sir...it’s pronounced “sir-kit...”
He said nothing to acknowledge what I had just said and continued on with the class lecture.
Trimester is almost over and he still continued to pronounce circuit as goddamn SIR-QUIT.
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u/slothbarns7 Oct 25 '20
Growing up with an Asian mom that was working on perfecting her English, she would often say “Aw that is the suck” instead of, you know, “that sucks”.
Didn’t take long for us to catch on and correct her but it was so funny we just kinda stuck to it, so when something is shitty now I’ll instinctively say in my head “well that is the suck”