Say something…and I’ll

Say something…and I’ll

Say a sentence and I can tell where you are from. This is how some people are so good with sounds. As soon your teeth gets out of the way and your tongue and the other parts of your talking crews starts to move, your brain sitting in the driver seat, they start making strange and unusual noises, that people around you hear.  You see, the earlier you train this talking crew, (i.e.…the mechanism that allows you to make sounds), to any specific sound, that is the sound it will get used to. This includes various talking muscles.

Excuse my preceding junk, non-scientific analogy here. Nevertheless, what I am trying to say here is this: from early on, an individual can train himself or herself to speak in any accent and any language without much distinction from the indigenous of any location. Take for example; I know a kid from Liberia, West Africa. He arrived in the U.S. at the tender age of five, with a very strong native accent. Today, he is seventeen. However, when this kid speaks English, one would not recognize that he is from Liberia, given the fact that, Liberian English is just as accentuated as the “Jamaican English”, easily recognizable. In addition, when the same lad is speaking among his peers, an ordinary person not from Liberia will never understand a word coming out his mouth. This is what I call linguistic adaptability or, you may call it flexibility, talent, skill…whatever. The moral here is, it is great to have keen ears for sounds of others, but it is always a beautiful thing to be open-minded, different and to accept people as such.

Without those crazy sounds from different places, the world would be a very BORING place to live. Therefore my friends, enjoy the crews that make those ugly sounds from our mouths.