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I will try to type this as close as I can to how it was actually pronounced. My southern readers may have an easier time of this:
“I’mma fixin ta lahwgin toyit an it won’ doâ€
“…You’re trying to login and it won’t let you?â€
“Yea, it won’ go, sayin wron name er paword er someâ€
“OK, what are you trying to login to?â€
“I dunno, the commuta is ova theahâ€
(Taking a guess that its just the first password she’s having problems with)
“OK, your username should be jsmith, and your password will be capital ‘J’ lowercase ‘s’ one two three four. It will ask you to pick a new password the first time you loginâ€
“Kin I mayk a new wun afda that?”
“…Yes, it will ask you to pick a new passwordâ€
“An I kin mayk a new wun?â€
“…YES.â€
“Is tha awl I need?â€
“Besides a speech therapist and a GED, yes.â€*
One of the few calls I’ve taken where I’m not actually 100% sure what the problem was, and I hope I fixed what she was asking. Could have been calling in to get the recipe for my grilled lettuce for all I know.
*This line was not actually said.
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about 2 years ago
Not awl of us ens cood get that fancy paper what with they give out on gradyeeation day. Yer a smart ass sumbitch, ain't ya.
This GED yer talkin bout. That stand fer some kind of breviation?
about 2 years ago
At least one of you spoke English.
I have had the exact same conversation with Dell's IT people, but in reverse. And they have an Indian accent. And call themselves Alex…..or John. Okay, maybe it wasn't the exact same, but still.
Damn outsourcing! I'm coming for you, Patel!
about 2 years ago
now we're going to play a fun game, "guess what state she was from".
hint: it wasn't from the south. although i'm sure it is a "have accent will travel" scenario
about 2 years ago
Probably Oklahoma. We're a pretty mentally challenged state.
about 2 years ago
I guess it's bad that I understood every word of that, huh? Well, I'm from TENNESSEE…I can't help it.
Where was she from? Spill.
about 2 years ago
Nice. I hope she can figure out how to spell her username and password.
about 2 years ago
Too heavy an accent for West Virginia, but I'm going with New York.
about 2 years ago
ms. heavyaccent was from Michigan.
although, to be fair, all i know is that she was calling from Michigan.
her actual origins remain unknown.
about 2 years ago
I knew a bunch of people from southern Illinois who spoke just like that. They sounded to me like what the stereotypical Southerner sounds like. It was great! And so unexpected…
about 2 years ago
*for the sake of humanity, that line should have been said.
about 2 years ago
and she was seriously from michigan? OYYYYYY no. gotta love detroiters.