“I wanted to show my San Francisco friends why I talk so funny,” Schwarzmann, a UMBC grad now doing public relations work for a tech company, said Thursday, still in Baltimore and enjoying English the way it was meant to be spoken. “Especially in the Bay area … they don’t really have an accent. They always make fun of me, for certain words. Everybody has seen ‘The Wire.’ Every time I say certain words at work, I get grief.”