<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/08cd5144-b0b6-4bd0-a1f6-9423bb7de11e/BFC3B424-1686-4498-B703-BD0EA7D3921E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.pinoy-everything.com/Mirrorball/Dont-cha-Hear-My-Twang-Im-Now-Kinda-American.html" href="http://www.pinoy-everything.com/Mirrorball/Dont-cha-Hear-My-Twang-Im-Now-Kinda-American.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.pinoy-everything.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinoy-everything.com/Mirrorball/Dont-cha-Hear-My-Twang-Im-Now-Kinda-American.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" class="contentheading">Dont'cha Hear My Twang? I’m Now (Kinda) American! <SPAN class="small"> by kismetph ,  Jun 25, 2009 at 06:43 PM</SPAN> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinoy-everything.com/Mirrorball/Dont-cha-Hear-My-Twang-Im-Now-Kinda-American.html"><P>If it was all about attitude,  I would've made the grade, given that I was able to ape my sister's Californian accent after spending just a few days with her.  But by my own admission in my Facebook status, I knew that I made more grammatical mistakes in the month I was in the States than the whole of 2008 altogether.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pinoy-everything.com/Mirrorball/Dont-cha-Hear-My-Twang-Im-Now-Kinda-American.html"><P>This was embarrassing, given that I already won three awards for plays I wrote in English.  But apparently, make me speak solely in that language and after a short while, I'd be a gonner.  Same thing goes for me and speaking in straight Filipino because yes, I am one of those horrid, horrid creatures who use Taglish as a crutch in everyday life.  But hey, I spend most of my professional life writing in Filipino, and I do exert extra effort to push aside my collegiala-speak and bring out the beauty of the language to my audience.  </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BFC3B424-1686-4498-B703-BD0EA7D3921E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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