mr roboto said:
Otis said:
The deep south guys ragging on regional accents is a real trip.
There is no more annoying accent than a New York/NJ accent. Not South, not Upper Midwest.
Most people in NJ/NY/CT/PA don't have accents and sound completely normal, more so than a lot of other places.
"People where I live don't have accents" shtick is awesome.

Most of us around here don't.
Here's the problem as I see it.
We absolutely have accents or dialects or whatever you want to call them. Certain words especially get said differently to kind of give it away to the non-linguist-expert. Having said that, for the most part, in my limited travels up and down the east coast (only been out west once when I was a kid) the whole - OMG that is a thick accent - is way overblown. Some people have massively thick accents but it's rare.More often the accents I see and deal with are because of different languages not region.
What is annoying are the people that overblow the accent thing. The whole, where are you from? Oh, I'm from New Jersey, you? Oh, you live in New Joissseyyy? Yeah, you ****, I do. And if you want my North Jersey Italian temper to come out by all means, say that again you mafankulo.