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Not all 'oriental' is Asian!........nm

Posted By: == on 2009-05-12
In Reply to: I have always been told - ExMQMT

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Asian OB-GYN is my hangup, not just Asian, but a combination of the 2 (nm)

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Why would you hesitate to type 'oriental lady?'....sm
There are a lot of 'oriental' countries that are not Asia. Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia etc.....
You can find them in Northern Africa.
Asian and Russian for me. nm
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Yes, Asian dictators are toughest
Some of mine are decent, but the rest are terrible. Strangely, I don't have much problem with Indian dictators, thought I would.
If they just add an E, they can be the East Asian Association for MT. nm
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No one mentioned either oriental or Asian.
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Have you ever heard the Asian psychiatrist

on Law and Order dictate?  He's pretty good.  I'd do his reports.  He's a dream! 


It is NOT Oriental, no such nationality. It is of Asian descent.
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Asian, Indian, British, Hispanic..sm
I am old and tired and just can't stand ANY ESLs anymore, and the sad thing is the good dictators are going offshore because the Indian MTs cannot even understand the ESLs. Unfortunately, most companies are filled to the brim with difficult ESLs and i guess if you don't do ESL, u won't have a job.  That is why I am sticking like glue to where I work, NO ESLs.
I meant South Asian, of course, not East.

People are Asian. Rugs and food are oriental.
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I wasn't aware Asian people were sensitive
about it. Where I live I guess we don't have the largest Asian population. Those I have met have been rather reserved and didn't discuss anything personal to someone they met in business or a casual meeting. So forgive me if I used the wrong term when I said Oriental, because I was just attempting to be vague since I didn't check on the origin of the dictator's name. As for those who suggested I leave a blank, any report with more than 3 blanks has to go to QA. So I take the time to look at his other reports for instances where he either said it better or the MT was better at that particular accent. I'm quite good at many accents, including Korean (let me acknowledge that Korean would be a particular Asian accent so we don't start another time-consuming discussion over that tiny point). But whatever particular Asian accent this person has, at least with the system we are using to record his voice, I have trouble with. But I get a few reports by him nearly every day, so I've started a list of the phrases he doesn't pronounce well. Whatever his first language is obviously didn't use many of our sounds, so I was just thinking it would probably take a speech therapist to train him. IMO, some of his training isn't appreciated fully if his patients can't understand him when he speaks, or MTs have to leave blanks in his reports. So with all the education he's had already, what would be a few weeks of speech therapy, is what I'm thinking.