Ah, maybe I should've read the other replies first.
Not to jump into the arguement, but I've always seen a dialect as a regional variant of an existing language. Americans have a slightly dissimilar vocabulary to the other English-speaking countries, but the backbone of it is still English and so 'American' is a dialect of English and not (as some Americans suggest) an entire language on it's own.
An accent is merely the regional pronounciation of specific words. The language itself is not transmuted in any way, regardless of which accent it is being spoken in.
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Lock to field screen, row the ocean onto sentient ground.
New rites of a Vedic sun to attend the blue horizon.
Prevails flight resplendent, sails the shrine effulgent windship.
Stillness breathes apex supreme - I walk toward the mountain.
Crowns the sovereic rite to freedom.
Shored the origin forms to a ground accede.
Axiom core of the light shrine flight to shining.
Glows serene to attenuate the space and time.
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