What is neutral accent ?

It is nothing but globally understandable English .

Pacific Northwest English.

Nope. Mountain Western Urban (Denver, SLC, and even Phoenix and El Paso to an extent).

>> Nope. Mountain Western Urban (Denver, SLC, and even Phoenix and El Paso to an extent). <<

Nah. They definitely have an accent. Listen to how they pronounce words like "tomorrow" tomahrow, and "bag" as "bahg".

The written word.

The only "neutral accent" that I know of, as English goes, is conservative General American, but the matter is that practically no one truly speaks such anymore today. Even RP, while being a standard variety, is by no means truly "neutral" in and of itself.

There's no such thing as a "neutral accent" even conservative General American is by no means neutral.

>>There's no such thing as a "neutral accent" even conservative General American is by no means neutral.<<

Tis true - it makes one sound like some old newscaster, yes, even though it still is not nearly as marked as say, RP.

It's used in Columbus, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana.
the last safe haven of ''Standard Midwestern''

What is neutral supposed to mean anyway. Agreeable, understandable, somehwere in the middle of all the accents?

Don't geddit.

I myself do not see the why some people have so much of a problem with speaking an actual dialect of English, as opposed to some silly artificial standard variety of one sort or another (which even when spoken tends to differ at times from what is supposedly "standard").

As I said before, the Pacific Northwest accent is the only standard accent, in that every word is pronounce how it is supposed to be pronounced.

-the Pacific Northwest accent -

They rhyme BAG with VAGUE
that is so nonstandard.

>>how it is supposed to be pronounced

How are words "supposed" to be pronounced? There is NO such thing as a neutral accent.

>> They rhyme BAG with VAGUE
that is so nonstandard.

Not rhyming bag and vague is non-standard.