Indian call centres

[watervole]

Never trust a call centre in another country. I just had problems accessing my phone account online. I was putting in all my details correctly, but it kept on insisting I had the wrong password.

I phoned them up to confirm I was using the correct password. I was.

It was only after several minutes of argument and getting him to spell my e-mail address back to me (I'd already spelt it to him) that we finally figured out.

He had me as judith@wabeney.org

'v' and 'b' sound very alike to speakers of some other languages...

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[greengolux.livejournal.com]

Phonetically, 'v' and 'b' are very similar. They're practically the same sound, only the 'b' is more labial.

In Hebrew the letters for 'b' and 'v' are the same, distinguished only by a dot to show whether it's a hard ('b') or soft ('v') sound.