accent and then no accent?

Submitted by jen (United States), Jan 16, 2010 at 21:51

I just listened to this so-called show...and there were a couple of things I found odd. 1) the radio host puts "nora" on hold for supposedly swearing. The host seemed to prevent her swearing by putting her on hold before the 8-second delay came up. Yet, leading up to her being put on hold, I did not hear anything in her opening comments to indicate she was getting angry or would be leading into saying any swear words. She did not get irate until after being put on hold. 2) The arabic-type accent of "walid" seems to come and go. I first noticed this when "walid" was talking about 2 minutes into the skit. For example, he would pronounce the word "Ramadhan" or "country" with the hard R sound, but when he says "internals" or "doctor" his R sound is just like american english. Did anyone else notice that? Is this man's normal accent like that? Just throwing it out there....

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