Accent

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Accent might refer to:

  • Accent (language), and its role in discrimination
  • Quote mining, where the quoter puts the stress (or "accent") of the passage on something other what the author intended; this is often achieved by removing the passage's context
  • Fallacy of accent, where the stress on the word (or lack thereof) introduces ambiguity