>Everyone has an accent. When you say "without an accent," what you mean is that you are looking for someone with a particular accent that is meant to be free o

>Everyone has an accent. When you say "without an accent," what you mean is that you are looking for someone with a particular accent that is meant to be free of features that identify someone as coming from a particular region. Thats what an accent is, yes. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accent https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accent > In a way, it's discriminatory, because you're saying that people who do not speak your preferred dialect are not speaking "proper" English. Even if they grew up speaking English their entire life. thats not what i said/wrote. Thats how you interpret it.