Accent in a sentence as a noun

"You did not get in because of your silly accent video.

"Well never know if we got in because of our silly accent video.

So make sure you're an expert in the right American accent.

Upon settling back into the driver seat, with a big smile and a thick French accent, he said, "I am Batman.

Then a few hours later this guy in a thick Russian accent knocks on my door demanding what I'm doing in his house.

Please wait!” he said to the general, speaking in Russian with the French accent which he used when he spoke with contempt.

So in the beginning, I drew every letter and accent and checked them against the source before continuing.

I mean, it feels like telling someone to quit using their English accent or slang when you only understand American.

So people pattern match on his argument, see the word "accent", and argue on the basis of his comment being thinly veiled xenophobia.

It's especially laughable coming from the press -- they've been at YC offices many times, and the sheer number of founders with accents is staggering.

Your decisions may seem rational to you but if you talk about how you don't like to back people with strong accents, it becomes less likely that other people will back them as well.

Accent in a sentence as a verb

The controller pulled me aside and said in a menacing Brooklyn accent I didn't know he had in him, "I would appreciate it if you would make this go away.

Do you really doubt pg's claim that an accent strong enough to impede comprehension is a barrier to creating a successful startup in Silicon Valley?

Just to point out, many videos released by Annon in spanish are made using a well known text-to-speech voice from Loquendo, "Jorge", who has a Castilian Spanish accent.

News reports about you will forever read "Paul Graham, the investor who stirred controversy by saying that foreign accents are bad for startups, ate breakfast today".

If there are any negative vibes towards a person because of their background, it's only ever because of their "foreign-ness"; if for example they might have an accent.

I'm really disappointed that this was Paul's top of mind criterion for rejection, "One quality that's a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent.

comes the enumeration of the 100 programming languages I know, each one pronounced in 10 different ways, Brazilian accent, etc.>Even "Java" didn't seem to mean anything to them.

So I typically copy in chunks of a few words, then make another pass to copy accents, breath marks, and punctuation.> Do you have error detection and error correction processes?I decided at the beginning of the project that I was not going to attempt complete accuracy.

Infants dont even babble at this age never mind produce or understand adult speech, but they have already stopped noticing certain differences in speechthats how deeply ingrained the way we perceive and produce speech is, and why its almost impossible to speak a non-native language without an accent.

A guy like Aleynikov was thus ideally suited as a prosecution target: unlikely to excite much sympathy from a jury with his heavy accent and un-American looks; clueless about lawyers and confessions; cooperative enough to sign statements that were re-formulated by investigators to look bad in court; high-tech enough to mark novel and impressive prosecutorial checkboxes.

Accent definitions

noun

distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"

noun

special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"

See also: emphasis

noun

the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"

See also: dialect idiom

noun

the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

See also: stress emphasis

noun

a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

verb

to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

See also: stress emphasize emphasise punctuate accentuate

verb

put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"

See also: stress accentuate