Interview with Code A caster KellyMilkies - Page 4

On February 21 2011 19:27 OptimusYale wrote:
Starcraft 2 is coming out!

Nerds: WE DONT LIKE CHANGE, ROAR BROOD WARS IS WAY BETTER IM NOT GIVING SC2 TIME TO EVOLVE!

New observer system in GSL

NERDS: WE DONT LIKE CHANGE, ROAR TASTELESS SHOULD HAVE THE OBSERVING RIGHTS BECAUSE ITS CHANGED AND WE DONT WANT TO GIVE IT TIME!

New commentator who's a girl

NERDS: WE DONT LIKE CHANGE, IT SHOULD BE TASTELESS AND ARTOSIS CASTING 300 GAMES A DAY!!!! LETS NOT GIVE HER A CHANCE!


Seriously nerds, life's going to change and you have to adapt. The reason your socially awkward is because you don't like change. She's good, her accent is a non issue, she commentates well. Remember how nervous you were on your first day of school, or your first day of work. Now put that in front of a huge international audience and you'll imagine how difficult it will be! Stop the whining and live with the change. She's better than the korean female commentator, and having a female speak in my ear makes me feel much less gay than listening than 2 guys all the time!

Her knowledge is very good, her humor will get more natural as she settles down, her accent will become neutral in time, her english is perfect. To those who say it's not, have you ever taught people who are learning english as a second language? Their lexical choice is often disjointed and their grammar has minor inflectional errors. As a language major and an english grammar teacher, I would say shes better grammatically than I guess 70% of native english speakers because we change the grammar to be more conversational and often its wrong!

On February 21 2011 19:43 OptimusYale wrote:
Im english and I abstain from voting because regardless of who goes in they're all the same in England.

And what do you mean as a liberal, her grammar is equal to that of a native speaker if not better.

And I say nerds and you flame me, tastosis say nerd and you take it as a compliment. I didn't mean it in a bad way but serious gamers tend to hate change more than any other gamer demographic! I think its because in the hardcore scene there is longer life on games, but you have to accept that at some point something has to change.

You don't complain when John makes grammatical errors in the translations. It urks me at times when he makes silly small mistakes, but Kelly makes 0 and if you think she is making mistakes then you are mistaken. Anyway I'm pretty sure she has English as a native language, alas it's an official language of Singapore, and as far as I know its taught the same as US English, so chances are she just speaks with a different dialect/ accent, live with it, americans have different accents, allow the rest of the world to!

On February 21 2011 19:48 Sylvr wrote:


Her English isn't the problem, her accent is. YOU may consider it a non-issue, but I certainly don't. As a Language Major and an English Grammar Teacher, you are more used to listening to people with accents, and so are biased. I can assure you that it most definitely matters to people without such experience (which happens to be a vast majority of people). What makes it worse is that she tries to talk too fast for having said accent.

Aside from that, the high pitch voice on top of all that makes it borderline unbearable for me, at least.

It isn't impossible for her to get better, but her voice isn't going to change, and if her english is that good and she hasn't lost the accent yet, then she probably never will.

On February 21 2011 20:09 Daavee wrote:


I actually unterstand only Tasteless, not listening to her as it is too difficult and I want to see and concentrate on the match.

On February 21 2011 20:10 Fisher wrote:
GSL has become somewhat painful to watch sadly :/ Between the accent and lacking in game knowledge I dunno if I can watch with the volume on anymore. Tasteless is even thrown off by her lol.

On February 21 2011 20:19 justanother wrote:
Being a Singaporean I can understand Kelly 90% of the time but her pronunciation does slip occasionally. On a side note, haters need to just chill and be more tolerant of the accent. It's more likely that this is the first time they're actually hearing a Singaporean cast, so it sounds really foreign at first. Honestly, I think people are just being too prejudiced against Kelly to give her (and her accent) a proper chance. You can tell she's trying hard, so props to her. Just need some open-mindedness and time to get used to her.

On February 21 2011 20:30 Sindsygafnatur wrote:
Dear Internet.

Please stfu about accents. I'm sick of these elitist views on how global casting should only be done in one form of english.

"OMG I don't understand none of dat asian-speak!" "she don't speak as I!" "I hates her."

People speak differently in different parts of the world, embrace it. It's what's makes the world colorfull and interesting. And come on, if you can't understand what she's saying, you should get your brain checked. And the " Oh noes, her voices is to high", she's a woman, you have to learn to live with it someday.

This should be read in the thickest, most disgusting danish accent, hailing from the proud peninsular of Jutland.