{"id":5317,"date":"2008-08-04T12:31:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5317"},"modified":"2008-08-04T09:32:28","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T14:32:28","slug":"you_call_that_a_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/you_call_that_a_1\/","title":{"rendered":"You call THAT an Indian accent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindy_Kaling\" target=_blank>Mindy Kaling<\/a>, who writes for and acts on the NBC show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_Office\/\">The Office<\/a>, recently revealed to David Letterman a secret that many Indian Americans guard very closely. Not <strong>all<\/strong> of us are good at imitating an Indian accent just because our parents are Indian [via <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.defamer.com.au\/2008\/08\/mindy_kalings_misadventures_in_ethnic_stereotypes_have_em_rolling_at_letterman-2.html\" target=_blank>Defamer<\/a>]:<\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>\n<center><object height=344 width=425><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q50EDgevZhA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q50EDgevZhA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>That&#8217;s right, we may not do Indian accents well&#8230;but no other ethnic group should be able to point that out without an indignant tongue-lashing back <img src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/smile.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0><\/p>\n\n<p>If you want to skip the rest of the interview then start at 1:30 min mark.  I can really sympathize with Mindy.  When I try to do an Indian accent I sound slightly Scottish.  Its just sad.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy Kaling, who writes for and acts on the NBC show The Office, recently revealed to David Letterman a secret that many Indian Americans guard very closely. Not all of us are good at imitating an Indian accent just because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/you_call_that_a_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,47,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}