Kat444: Actually, no. Accents just set up a different mindset to abide to. In your example (southern), the tilt to the words doesn't bother me (e.g. for "hate" I'd say "heyt" and you'd say "haiyt", sort of). But the "diff'rent" would bother me because you're ignoring that "different" is a three-syllable word. It's hard to explain. But accents don't bother me.
Mentally correcting people's pronunciation ALL THE TIME.
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Kat444: Actually, no. Accents just set up a different mindset to abide to. In your example (southern), the tilt to the words doesn't bother me (e.g. for "hate" I'd say "heyt" and you'd say "haiyt", sort of). But the "diff'rent" would bother me because you're ignoring that "different" is a three-syllable word. It's hard to explain. But accents don't bother me.