How accents make language more beautiful | Muftiat Adeyi | TEDxUniversityofMississippi

[Music] [Applause] Imagine being at a water park, a place where joy and laughter should flow freely, a place of laughter and splashes. is you are speaking your mother tongue, a language that carries centuries of stories and songs. When suddenly someone interrupts you and says, "What the are you speaking? Is it Jamaica?" I watched as the middle-aged Caucasesian man's face contorted with disgust and a doineering audacity as it interrupted my conversation in Euroba at a water park in Philadelphia, Mississippi. ...