When someone mentions a person "having an accent", you assume they are from another country, even though everyone who speaks has an accent, amirite?

+255 When someone mentions a person "having an accent", you assume they are from another country, even though everyone who speaks has an accent, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

An accent IS literally a way of speaking DIFFERENTLY, i.e. from another country or dialect. It's a distinction in pronunciation and grammar.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Haha, that's true. One of my friends told a guy I "had an accent" and he assumed it was something like Russian when really I'm just from southern Missouri, so I have a "hick" accent. :D

by Anonymous 12 years ago