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can you tell the difference between an Indian accent -- esp. when the speaker is trying to mask it -- and an Asian accent? (if you're British I'm using these in the American sense). Oodles of call centers -- including telesales outfits -- are being run out of India these days. <p></p><i></i>

Ellie,<br><br>Have you considered recording the calls so that you can review them when you are more prepared mentally? Documenting what is happening at this stage may also be helpful later if the situation progresses into something more sinister. Or, that kind of scrutiny may be enough to stop the phenomenon on its own.<br><br>I did a few google searches and found this site (among lodes of others) with various recording devices.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spousewatcher.com/">www.spousewatcher.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>

I may begin recording the calls. Funny thing is, for now they have stopped!<br><br>We were averaging about three a day for several weeks, and over the last couple weeks the numbers had begun to drift down a little. But since the guinea pig episode - there hasn't been one.<br><br>I'll keep everyone informed how it goes from here<br><br>Ellie <p></p><i></i>

The American telesales or tech support that's been outsourced to India generally is trained to have fairly meticulous American accents, and also given background in US small talk like sports team names and current events. Or at least that's the way it's been in the past. <br><br>I would think that with firms that outsourced UK work of that sort the need might be somewhat less for wiping out Asian accents. The average American just doesn't run into that many people of Indian descent in their daily lives.<br><br>From the context it sounds like a case of mistaken identity. But the giving of the town you come from is a bit worrisome.<br><br>Yesterday I happened to be in the neighborhood of a place I'd lived 30 years ago, so I pulled by to see what the house was looking like these days. On the way back<br>out my daughter and her friend were taking digital photos of each other. They started screaming over one which shows a pair of anomalous white feathery forms iin the top of the image, where there isn't much to reflect off. FWIW my mother had once seen a ghostly head up in the corner of the kitchen of that house as she came in, and the cat had arched up and started hissing at it.<br><br> <br> <p></p><i></i>

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"A recent post of mine on a different thread on this board seems to have been edited, and not by me.<br><br>"I have since deleted the post, and now it says, 'Edited by RollickHooper' but it didn't, before. I was, in effect, censored; I do hope someone can explain this to me."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>RollickHooper, could you give me the URL of the post?<br><br>Sorry to hear that happened. I didn't edit it. I don't edit posts unless I'm requested to by an unregistered poster, or if they violate the posting regulations. But I've only done the latter a couple of times, and I haven't done it surreptitiously. <p></p><i></i>

Ah jeez Jeff, it was the Children of the Law of the One and Sons of Belial thread but don't sweat it, really.<br>slimmouse made a reference to something I'd said in another thread, calling it "shallow and naive," and I wanted to call him on it. I didn't think for a moment that you had edited it, which is why I brought it up here in the "weirdness" thread.<br><br>slimmouse, on the other hand--<br><br>No seriously I don't pretend to know what-all goes into making a board like this work and I'm perfectly willing to accept "this happens" and move on. <p></p><i></i>

I was all like, oh yeah? Sez you, and shit. <p></p><i></i>