Well, everyone has a local accent. We were talking about Texas accents specifically.
Quote: "And Jeku is right, people don't generally walk around saying "Oh, you have a such and such accent!"
A Texas accent tends to stand out, like a Brooklyn accent. People do point it out, in America anyway. People with thick accents get made fun of, big time, because it's funny to hear them talk. People don't know where I'm from by how I talk. I could be from Ohio for all they know. I suppose I base a lot of my language on the mass media, which is usually pretty white bread. The only dead giveaway that I'm from Texas is my superior atheleticism.
Quote: "Technically I'd say the English don't have accents, and every other english speaker does."
I've heard different English accents. It's not as noticable to me, but local accents are a fact of life.
Thinking that everyone from Texas has a Texan accent is like saying everyone from Australia talks like Crododile Dundee. It's easy to base an opinion on one thing you've seen (like a western), but often much different in practice.
