Comment on A true ally
FishFace@piefed.social 12 hours agoNot necessarily. People who say “he has an accent” just think that their accent is “not an accent” so it could also be a (different) regional accent.
Comment on A true ally
FishFace@piefed.social 12 hours agoNot necessarily. People who say “he has an accent” just think that their accent is “not an accent” so it could also be a (different) regional accent.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Having an accent is code for immigrant. If someone from alabama goes to new york, they are never described as “having an accent”.
FishFace@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Can’t speak to your specific example but I have 100% heard people say “had an accent” to mean “has a regional accent”, that would include, for example, an Appalachian accent.