American Accent Clarification

I wanted to clarify a misconception about American accents that seems to be common over seas. I know I look retarded at this angle but whatever, haha.

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• america
• american
• california
• accent
• accents
• misconception

[booboojustin]

Using words such as dude, like, hella, etc are not part of an accent.

An accent is a manner of pronunciation of a language not the word choice. An accent consists of vowel shifts, rhythm, vowel stress, and other factors of pronunciation. For example cot and caught are pronounced the same in California. A business man in California and a surfer boy would pronounce cot and caught the same but you would never hear the business man pronounce like and hella.

[thehapagirl92]

I'm a born and bred SoCal girl and I feel I don't have an accent. My nieces are from Hawaii born and bred and have the same accent as me.The only distinct accents are the really obvious "redneck" or hard and stressed "NY accent".

BTW I have a huge hunch some people don't even know what "Valley Girl" means. It originated in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the 1980's and Frank Zappa made a song of it where his daughter sang on it. It's a parody of how teen girls spoke back then.

[ThorX89]

@AmpharosAdamHGSS

Get over yourself. Saying ">a< British accent" means there are more of them. I hate it that every time an American uses the word British, a stupid Brit will show up with a Geography lesson.

[sophiadelphia]

let's say, there are different accents all over the world and none of them are superior or inferior, but people (no matter what kinda accent they have) that call people they don't know twats are stupid idiots

[ksb78]

@rhbstephensS08 So when folks generalize people from the UK you get all pissy, but its okay for you to generalize the people from Cali?

[ksb78]

@sophiadelphia You're a twat.

[SS726]

Californian accent is basically ending sentences and words with a raised voice like you're asking a question. The word "like" is also used a lot as a filler. This guy does it, too.

[dragonfly9196]

@AmpharosAdamHGSS

going by that logic there is no such thing as an "American" accent either. The average Brit probably would have trouble distinguishing an eastern accent from a western one (which isnt a Texan accent by the way. A Texan accent is a dixie accent). likewise americans have difficulty distinguishing the different accents within Britian. so people just generalize it.

[AmpharosAdamHGSS]

@AbbyRoseProductions i said most americans not all americans

[AbbyRoseProductions]

@AmpharosAdamHGSS That's ironic that you're accusing Americans of being unintelligent when you lack proper grammar and mechanics.

[AmpharosAdamHGSS]

i want to clear something up, most americans are to unintelligent to understand that their is actually no such thing as a British accent, Britain is made up of Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland and so there is no such thing as a British accent, England alone has 100's of accents

[UltraPenguinx3]

@missbethvanilla101 lol xD