-154 There is no such thing as an 'American accent'. Compare a New Yorker with a Californian and you get two completely different dialects. Or a Chicagoan and someone from New Orleans. When someone from a different country says, 'You have an American accent.' it simply reeks of ignorance, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

When you're speaking someone else's language and you make it sound bad, and you are from America, they say you have an American accent because you are bringing your own speech style into their language. Any type of American accent will do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

American accent doesn't refer to one accent in particular just one from America.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

please dont try to do this again. it didnt work with english accents.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe we all sound the same to them. Probably not, but maybe.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Everywhere is like this. People from Spain have regional accents. People from Japan have regional accents. In England, you can drive for half an hour to find someone with a totally different accent and sociolect to you. America isn't the only country in the world. Stop being ignorant.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You took the words out of my mouth.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

you took the letters right off my keyboard

by Anonymous 11 years ago

There's a difference between there being many of something and there being none of that thing.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

"It reeks of ignorance." Seriously? Most people in America have very slight accents. (excluding some of the people who have ridiculously thick Boston, New Jersey, southern, or Californian accents) In Britain (or most countries, for that matter) have HUGE disparities in accents when you go in any direction. You're being the ignorant one.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Hey don't fah-get Boston!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The idiocy... Its palpable

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm pretty sure there's an accent considered the standard American accent. It's the one used most often on TV if the character is supposed to be American, but not from any particular region.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Accent = overall broad term of the country Dialect = specific regions within the country right?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Do you know all of the different dialects in the UK? Or even Canada for that matter? They exist everywhere. You're the ignorant one.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Reeks of ignorance? That's a bit much.

by Anonymous 11 years ago