The toast masters committee wanted me to be the grammarian on the coming meeting.They said I have a British accent, so, shoud be good at grammar.... I don't see the correlation between the two, and I certainly don't agree with the British accent.
Within the same week, someone called a wrong number to my house, the person asked if I am from Jamaica, I said no. He then said, nice accent, I thought you are from Jamaica.
The Jamaica reminded me of another wrong number call while I was in UK. An American lady called and she insisted she called the right number, and it turned out as an interogation... she asked if I were in UK, how come I have Jamaica accent.
There were several other incidents, where I was mistaken too... I was mistaken by Chinese as a Taiwanese; also by Taiwanese as a Chinese. I think I was also mistaken as Korean once.
Now I am curious how Jamaican speaks...
Come to think of it, Americans have relatively bad score in their world geography knowledge... I bet most of them think that if you were not American, you must be Mexican or Jamaican....
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