What is an accent?

Is everything sexual with you?

This was actually an honest serious question. Your hypocritical posts don't need to be here, unless you can actually contribute. Sorry if this sounds like trollin, but you're kind of annoying.

 

Not everything, I should fix that.

 

I already answered your question in my previous post,you can close the thread now You cant really expect a russian to speak like an emerican,his english will sound like russian still,thats the only reason mate..

 

But that doesn't explain WHY certain groups of people have certain accents..

 

His question was WHY! And I've answered it D:

 

Sorry. You didn't.

 

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=( Good bye serious thread. Thanks.

 

I sound liek dis

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Get a medic's help then.

 

Because some person thought it was cool to sound 'different' whilst speaking and there, accents have grown stronger and have been inherited.

Just my guess though lul

 

Lets try this again.

What physically makes someone speak differently than someone else, depending on where they come from?

 

Tongue shape, size, muscles (Which can be slightly different since for some accents you use some more and some less).
I don't know yet if there is a brain problem too. (Some can do tongue tricks without having special tongues, so could be neurological too, just as left/right handing)

 

Shiiet, now we're getting somewhere. That does actually make a lot of sense. That can't be the only factor in a different sounding dialect, though, can it?

 

This might help too.

The girl who wanted to speak Korean as a native had to cut the part of skin, like a string, that connects the tongue to the mouth's lower part. This made it longer tho.

 

Not talking about wannabes who go into surgery x.x

 

The idea is that the little thing stopped her from having a good accent.

 

Here in my country belgium, we have alot of provinces. and just some towns have their own accent of dutch. wich sounds realy weird. but also our neighbours the Netherlands have the same langauge as we do but also sound diffrent as hell it's something weird when you think about it ^^

 

Pretty sure I dont want to know how you get an accent. Just want to know what causes certain people to have one.

 

Uh where i live there is.. "rich" english talk and there's.. "commoner" talk xD

I think you "gain" an accent by living in that area, speaking to people, being at school in that area, etc. Things that are social

also, i think how accents started was just some person who thought it would be cool to talk their langauge differently. Lol