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TED演講：多國口音英語模仿秀(視頻）
2013-08-16 11:43
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脫口秀演員Sarah Jones莎拉·瓊斯 在TED現場來了段精彩的單口秀，她惟妙惟肖地模仿了八國人說英語，驚為天人。裡面包括了英式口音、美式口音、印度口音、法國口音、中式口音、阿拉伯口音、這短短的20分鐘內，莎拉·瓊斯好像領著你去了一次環球旅行。莎拉·瓊斯一個人分別扮演了一位固執的猶太老太太、一個語速極快的多米尼加裔女大學生以及其他眾多精彩角色。
被莎拉·瓊斯模仿的八個國家和地區為：英國、紐約皇后區、澳大利亞、多米尼加、法國、德國、 印度、中國、約旦。代表了八種不同的口音：英音、美音、西班牙音、法語音、德語音、印度音、漢語音、阿拉伯音。
當然從Sarah的本意出發，這次旅行的重點並不僅僅是口音，還有文化與交流的問題。我們生活在一個距離越來越短，聯繫越來越緊密的地球村裡。一種語言就像是一把鑰匙，打開地球另一邊人們生活的大門。如果說你的語言是一個維度，它帶來了一個角度，多一種語言能力就是多一個思考的維度，多了一扇看世界的窗，生活的厚度就這樣疊加起來越發豐富多彩。
以下是演講全文：
I should tell you that when I was asked to be here, I thought to myself that well, it's TED. And these TED sters are - you know, as innocent as that name sounds - these are the philanthropists and artists and scientists who sort of shape our world. And what could I possibly have to say that would be distinguished enough to justify my participation in something like that? And so I thought perhaps a really civilized sounding British accent might help things a bit.
And then I thought no, no. I should just get up there and be myself and just talk the way I really talk because, after all, this is the great unveiling. And so I thought I'd come up here and unveil my real voice to you. Although many of you already know that I do speak the Queen's English because I am from Queens, New York. (Laughter) But the theme of this session, of course, is invention. And while I don't have any patents that I'm aware of, you will be meeting a few of my inventions today. And I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts. But then what? To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could be anyone at any time? Well my characters, like the ones in my shows, allow me to play with the spaces between those questions. And so I've brought a couple of them with me. And well, they're very excited. What I should tell you -- what I should tell you is that they've each prepared their own little TED talks. So feel free to think of this as Sarah University. (Laughter)
Okay. Okay. Oh, well. Oh, wonderful. Good evening everybody. Thank you so very much for having me here today. Ah, thank you very much. My name is Loraine Levine. Oh my! There's so many of you. Hi sweetheart. Okay. (Laughter) Anyway, I am here because of a young girl, Sarah Jones. She's a very nice, young, black girl. Well you know, she calls herself black, she's really more like a caramel color if you look at her. But anyway, (Laughter) she has me here because she puts me in her show, what she calls her one-woman show. And you know what that means, of course. That means she takes the credit and then makes us come out here and do all the work. But I don't mind.
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