Saturday, August 7, 2010

Defense, Detail, And Defeat

The teacher turns to the class and says, "Today, we will use these three words in a sentence. Defense, detail, and defeat. Tom, why don't you go first?"

Tom, a white kid, goes first.

Tom says, "Ahh, the football team's defense was detailed in the paper which caused the defeat of the other team." (The narrator's tone is slang-American when saying this sentence.)

The teacher turns to Chang, a Chinese boy, and says, "How about you Chang?"

Chang says, (narrator uses a Chinese accent), "the Defense Department gave details of the defeat of the guerrillas."

"That's very good Chang, now what about you, Bong-Bong?" says the teacher. "Use defense, detail, and defeat in a sentence."

Bong-Bong, the Filipino boy, doesn't want to do it. (Accent of narrator becomes heavily influenced by Ilocano or Tagalog accent).

"Ma'am, ay don't know how to use it," says Bong-Bong.

"Come on, just try," says the teacher.

"Okay, ma'am," says Bong-Bong. "Ahhhh...dah black dog...jumped ober (over pronounced with "b" sound) dah fence ("dah" instead of the sound "the"), dah tail first and den, dah feet."

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