Today, my teacher, who's Irish, called me insensitive and stupid for imitating her accent. I'm Filipino and my parents immigrated to Ireland where I was born, and then we moved to Canada when I was 14. Her response to my explanation? "Bullshit." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my teacher called me "stupid and ignorant" for referring to myself as Asian. I'm from Pakistan. Pakistan is in Asia. FML
Today, the parent of a student called to ask me about a homework assignment. At the end of the call, she told me that I seem to be losing my "Asian accent" from when she first talked to me in the summer. I was born in the US, grew up in NJ and speak perfect English. FML
Today, my mom hit me in the face after an argument she didn't win. According to her, Mexican and American are languages, and not dialects or nationalities. She even argued with my teachers, and threatened to remove me "from a school full of uneducated people" after they told her I was correct. FML
Today, a customer asked me if I was English, because I was struggling to understand what he was saying. I said yes. He then called me a liar, and said I must be "one of them Polish immigrants." Oh, and he also had a thick Scottish accent. FML
Today, my mom mentioned how she loves a certain actor's "British" accent. I couldn't help but mention that there's no such thing, and that there are lots of different accents in Britain. She got pissed and lectured me for "lying" to her and trying to make her feel stupid. FML
Today, we had a substitute teacher. She was taking attendance and had trouble pronouncing my last name. When I corrected her, I heard her mutter under her breath about, “Goddamn Mexican immigrants…” I’m from Greek ancestry, born in the USA. FML
Today, my mom scolded me for ruining my sister's "vacation" here. She just got deported from abroad, and was only gone for 2 months after falling for a marriage scam. Now she deludes to herself that she was born and raised there, and claims not to understand our mother tongue, calling it third world primate language. FML
Today, I met my girlfriend's parents for the first time. Within minutes, they said I needed to leave. Their reason? Apparently, I was mocking her dad's speech impediment. I also have one but they wouldn't believe me. FML
Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML
Today, on my first day of being a trainee teacher in a classroom, I told a boy to stop using that stupid accent or else I'll give him a detention. Turns out he just moved here from Romania. FML
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Top comments
UrLyfSuxx 0
Damn. But hey, accents are cool.
TheMaster15 10
No worries, shes just a wee little lady.
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Comments (253)
monkiki62 5
I'm Irish and prolly would have whomped u for doing that. Lame. And even if ur born there ur still not Irish.
Aoifexzx 3
I'm Irish and I have enough cope on to know that not everyone with an accent is white.. Of you're born in Ireland then yes, you're Irish.
sadistmonkey 19
monkiki62 - You're dumb.
iwadasn 33
Whether or not you consider her Irish, do you at least realize that spending the first 14 years of her life in Ireland means that her natural accent is an Irish one?
SlaveToRetail 10
I'm Irish and I think you need to get the hell over yourself, as well as learn that by living in an area long enough, you eventually develop the accent.
monkiki62 5
Even so if you have an accent how in the hell does that make u Irish it's not blood u fucktard her blood is filipino. And you seem to be just a peace loving hippie. People are more animalistic than u realize.
OfficeNinja 5
Prove your Irish roots by getting drunk, then fighting with everyone in your class. It's an Irish tradition, as you know. My grandmother, when she was alive, could (and did) out drink, out cuss, and beat up anyone she met. Ah, how I miss her!
brooks10101 1
Report the bitch make her life hell and realy pour the acent on
ZakAttack21 5
Ah, teachers. Gotta love 'em.
lhamil64_fml 5
Eventually she'll figure it out once you keep talking like that for a few weeks.
arvale8802 1
Awww! That sux
Inediblepeaches 15
Oh my god. I saw this yesterday but now it's partially censored. SOPA?!?!
BAxSoulCity 1
Uhh since when has Your birth location depended on your accent? both of my parents are northern yet i was born in tennessee, an i dont have an accent whatsoever
Pazu_fml 10
Huh? Your birthplace doesn't depend on your accent; that wouldn't make any sense. Your accent depends on your birthplace -- or, more specifically, the place in which you first learned the language. And you do have an accent. Everyone does. But everyone also thinks of their own manner of speech as 'normal', so they don't see themselves as having an accent.
gablauron 1
Wow. Buzz kill!
fmlswag 11
Well that was rude.....