Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Geet to dah choppah.
Yeah, he has a very noticeably accent, because it is very unlike many we are exposed to day to day on television or through our friends, however, even the most common and accepted accent is still an accent, so you and everyone else that can speak has one.
Originally posted by Bardock42Maybe. I dunno. Some say they can hear my Texan accent, whereas others say I have no accent. How Y'all doin'?
Yeah, he has a very noticeably accent, because it is very unlike many we are exposed to day to day on television or through our friends, however, even the most common and accepted accent is still an accent, so you and everyone else that can speak has one.
What kind of accent would you say, for example, the following people have:
Brad Pitt
Kurt Russell
Obama
Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Maybe. I dunno. Some say they can hear my Texan accent, whereas others say I have no accent. How Y'all doin'?What kind of accent would you say, for example, the following people have:
Brad Pitt
Kurt Russell
Obama
But "no accent" just refers to an accent that they are used to hear and define as standard, probably some sort of General American, northern accent. It doesn't mean that you have no accent, just that your accent sounds very standard/common to people, rather than the heavy Texan accents that exist.
And I can't really group them as I am not knowledgable in American regional accents and I think they have all different accents anyways, but they mostly fall into this I'd suppose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
Linguistically you need an accent to speak a language, it is a prerequisite, a part of language.
Originally posted by Bardock42When I think Texan accent, I think Brad Pitt talking about hunting Nazis.
But "no accent" just refers to an accent that they are used to hear and define as standard, probably some sort of General American, northern accent. It doesn't mean that you have no accent, just that your accent sounds very standard/common to people, rather than the heavy Texan accents that exist.And I can't really group them as I am not knowledgable in American regional accents and I think they have all different accents anyways, but they mostly fall into this I'd suppose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
Linguistically you need an accent to speak a language, it is a prerequisite, a part of language.
Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
When I think Texan accent, I think Brad Pitt talking about hunting Nazis.
Well, the thing is as actors part of their job is to simulate accents that are not their own standard. However you understand now that "no accent" is a myth, a misunderstanding of a perceived standard accent?