If you're reading text written by an individual, it is certainly possible for the text to be written with an accent and/or interpreted with one. Maybe the mind

If you're reading text written by an individual, it is certainly possible for the text to be written with an accent and/or interpreted with one. Maybe the mind tends to do this more when it knows the person or where they are from -- I do not know. As a native English speaker who has spent a number of years learning Russian, I can only offer my interpretation of what parent meant. Most of the "accent" might be coming from the incorrect use of articles. The Russian language does not use articles like English does, and my teacher (among others) say this is the hardest part of English for native Russian speakers to learn because it is so foreign (much like an English speaker learning to decline every word in a Russian sentence). I live in NYC and spent a lot of time around English speaking Russians and once you hear what I'm referring to, you can't un-hear it.