The Country of Italy Loses it Charm

You know how sexy foreign accents are? How many movies have we seen when the girl falls in love with a mysterious, exotic man whose english is atrocious. We all love it. The time of day sounds like sweet nothings with the right accent.

Well, I have found the way to break this trend. If you no longer desire to become lovesick at the sound of an accent, simply follow these instructions: Have an Italian lecture about thermodynamics.

Today was the first day that our actual thermo professor, Dr. Massa, of Italy, did our lecture. And for the first 15 seconds while he gave his intro about 'speak up if you have questions' and 'stop me if you get confused', I went ahead and swooned. Then he started putting that accent on words like 'heat transfer', 'energy balance equation' and 'constant pressure vs. polytropic processes'. Just like that he killed it. Suddenly Italian-English was just the same as Korean-English and Indian-English. Not sexy at all. Its just the sound of a person who is much smarter than you trying to explain things you will never understand.

Way to kill the fantasy, Dr. Massa.