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"Come on, come on" *sound of seat belt being released* "Yes." I don't understand why people are in a hurry. You know who's worse, the people at the window. You have no right to be in a hurry. You're sitting there like, "Come on, come on, come on." *sound of seat belt releasing* “Yes” “oh, that's good, yes” “pass me my luggage, the pass is for me now, yes.” “I'm glad I didn't sit for two more minutes, this is much more comfortable.” Stay in your seat, wait. Ebola made the situation worse, a hundred times worse. Because now everyone wants to get off the plane.

When you cough, sneeze, you can feel the tension and when we are about to leave, the flight attendant comes back on the public address system and says, “Ladies and gentlemen, everyone return to your seats, please.menu. Like the waiter came and said, "Sorry, we didn't place your order." “Did you order, did you order, who ordered? No, we did not order this.” "We ask for celebrities, we don't know what that is." "No, no. We don't know, we didn't place the order." That's how they look at me. Now I'm there, I'm already posing. Because they've taught me how to do it, now I'm there.

I'm doing, nothing works. Not even these, nothing works. They just look at me and I don't know. I just panicked. Like I was embarrassed, I'm not going to lie. No one is taking my photo, no one told me what to do if they don't take my photo. just walk away. I started making the sounds with my mouth. Just a defense mechanism, I guess. Then I panicked and in the silence I thought, “Trevor! Trevor! Trevor! blinking* “Trevor! Trevor” *sound of cameras blinking* And now they just look at me like I'm saying, “Good job, good job.” The newspaper says he's famous.

And people start treating you like you're famous, they say the strangest things to you. The strangest thing people would say to me is, “Trevor! Trevor! Well done on everything, hey. Congratulations! Congratulations!" “But even if you go to the United States” “Don't forget us, okay? Don't forget us.” Like, “I don't even know who you are.” People said the strangest things to me. You know the first thing they said? have people told me? It's not good luck. It's "Hello Trevor." "Good luck, whatever you do." "Don't forget your accent, okay?" Don't do Charlize on us, okay? "Keep your accent, make us proud." They all said that. “Treva brother!” Treva Noah!

Hello, mama's son. “You are making us proud.” "She makes us proud, but can I ask her a favor?" “Don't lose your accent, okay? “Don’t lose your accent.” "Yes. When you return from the United States, you must not come back speaking strangely." “Please brother. If you lose your accent, don't come back.” “Did you just threaten me?” What does that mean? If you lose your accent? How do you lose your accent? People make it look like you're walking down the street and suddenly you say: *Looking in your pockets* “My accent!” “I lost my accent!” “Where the hell is my… Oh! “Oh hello.

No! That's not my accent! How are you going to lose your accent? I was stressed now. Because I don't want South Africans to think that I'm not South African. I don't want them to think I've forgotten something, this is my house. Now I'm stressed coming home. I'm on the plane, flying back to Johannesburg. And the whole time I'm thinking, “don't lose your accent Trevor, don't lose your accent” “Ac-accent, Accent, Ac-accent” “Is that how I say accent? Accent, accent, excent, excent” “axe end, ecsent, accent.” When I landed in the operating room, Tambo was losing his mind. I liked going into arrivals, the woman was there at customs. "Welcome back to South Africa, sir." I was like, "Yeah, I'm back!" “The same old Treva!” "Nothing has changed." People are crazy.

I love the accents. I really love accents. I love learning languages ​​and, obviously, the accents or byproducts of that I have learned over time. Even if you can't learn a language, an accent is a great way to communicate with someone in your own language while trying to close the gap you learned. someone's accent, you communicate more effectively, the thing is that you have to learn accents the right way, if you are going to talk to someone with that accent and you do it incorrectly, you may come across as racist, you have to be. be very careful with this.

White people in South Africa often fall into this trap. It happens a lot at gas stations. You see people driving with their friends, talking normally in the car. “So, I mean. If we put all the numbers together and give them marketing, they should be behind this: "it should be a break, HR has stepped up and it will be." "It's going to be a great year and we'll try to make sure. Oh, sorry. Wait." *Power window rolling down* "Hello Baba!" "Hey, shop, shop assistant!" "Please fill up the tank, hey?" "95, unleaded. Yes!" "Check your tires too, hey?" "Pressure.

Pump, pump! Not much, huh?" "Two point two, okay?" "Yes, good job. Buy, buy." "Chief Dankie." Do not do that. He's a grown man, he's been pumping gas his whole life. He knows what you need. Just talk to him like a normal human being. That is the question. People don't understand. Talk to him like a normal human being. He used to make me so angry when I saw white people change their accents when talking to black people. He made me so angry that he was like, "Are all white people racist? Is that what it is? Are they all racist?" and then I bowed.

Life taught me not to be so quick to judge. I learned a valuable lesson. One day I was driving to Gold Reef City. I entered the backstage area. And the security guard came out. to the boom, and he said, "Hello, how are you? Is your name on the list?" I said, "Yes, how are you Baba? My name is Trevor." He says, "Okay. Trebal, Trebal, Trebal." I said, "No, no. Trevor." He says, "Oh, I'm sorry. Cheval, Cheval, Cheval, Cheval." I said, "No, Trevor." "Cheva." "Trevor." "Chelva" "Trevor" "Chelva" "Trevor" "Chelval" "Trevor" "Chelva" "Trevor" "Cavel, Cav, Chavil, Chavel,Chalvin, Chavel" "Trevor" "Chalvil, Chalvil" "Trevor" "Calvil , Chalvil" and now my irritated friend leans over and says, "Hi, Dad." His Treva!" He said, "Oh, Treva!" "Why don't you speak properly?" And then I understood, I finally understood.

What the white people have been trying to do. I see that you are trying to communicate more. Sure enough , you're trying to engage someone, but understand this, understand this. When you talk to someone with an accent, the number one rule to understand is that an accent is not a measure of intelligence. An accent is simply someone speaking your language. rules of them. That's all an accent is. So don't talk down to them, don't treat them condescendingly. Just try to learn their accent, that's all. I learn them. I spend all my time learning accents. I try, I love it, it's a safe place to start to pronounce words correctly.

I'm always inspired by French restaurants. It's funny. It's fascinating the way people order food with a French accent. I never understood why. Because they don't do it in any other restaurant, it's only in French restaurants that people come in and then change their accent when they order. They come in talking normally. "You know it's wonderful, you're really going to enjoy it." "It's so beautiful, stunning. You have to have the desert. Oh, good night, how are you sir?" "Yes, we'll have a bottle of water for the table, please, and a" "Let's start with, can we get the Sauvignon blanc, please?" "And definitely, for the main course we will have the filet mignon." "And for dessert we're going to choose the creme brule." "Thank you so much.

Oh, you're going to love it." Because you do that? I never understood. I was like why? Because it's not like the French are going to return the favor. There are no French people sitting in our restaurants in South Africa looking at the menu like, "Uh, so for the table we can order" "a portion of starter, we share something. Is that okay?" "Uh, could we please have, uh" "a portion of boerewors." that's not gonna happen.