I don't know about you, but I have a really hard time taking foreign exchange students, TAs, or professors seriously. I think the big problem is that phony accent that they always do. What they need to realize is that it isn't funny at all. In fact, it's kind of annoying. I don't know whether they're trying to "make a statement" (like "Hi I'm from Germany" or something like that) or what, but it gets really old. They definitely need to just start talking like normal people.
If we can get them to start talking normal, I think we definitely need to get some of them to start working in food service. I don't know about you, but I'm sick of stupid lunch ladies asking pointless questions like if I want cheese on my nachoes. That's the kind of question I would get at McMoron's. If I didn't want cheese, I wouldn't ask for nachoes, moron, I'd ask for plain tortilla chips. By the way, you don't pronounce the L in tortilla, and if you ever do it again a mexican guy is going to come by and drink your blood with a shot of tequila. And you do pronounce the L in tequila.
So anyway, with those people working in food service, then there's an authentic person there that knows how to pronounce everything, or actually knows the difference between a quesadilla, a burrito, and a dead monkey (you'd be surprised the kinds of things the lunch ladies will try to put past you). You can probably get somebody that knows how to pronounce gyros if you try hard enough. Sure, maybe you think it's cool now to have that Greek professor helping your college become "A research-oriented university that is first-class in its field" but I think that it's a lot more braggable to say you're "The only school in the Big 10 that can pronounce gyros correctly." Oh, plus being Greek went out of style about 1700 years ago. Does Greece even exist any more?
Anyway, I'm getting kind of bored so I'm going to set a kitten on my keyboard and smash it repeatedly with a hammer and see if the letter patterns I get out of it are some sort of revelation.
