Writing and Roleplay: Character Accents

We need to talk about accents. Like, desperately need to talk about accents. RP community, I am looking at you first and foremost. Authors...yeah, some of you should probably also pay attention, but know that you aren't as egregious on this one in particular.

Bear with me, now.
So you're playing a character with an accent. And yes, I will continue to use the word 'playing', because this is largely geared toward my RPers in the audience. Anyway, you want people to know what they sound like in yo...