Just wondering about different accents used in pop culture and media. I have come across many different things that I don't really understand and i classify them as accents but without a formal teacher I have nowhere else to ask. My girlfriend said that they are just individual speach and not accents, like America vs England. One example I found in LOZ: Spirit tracks was 「何だまた寝ちまったのかい？」and 「わかってんのかい？」What would you consider the this?
Do you mean the のかい at the end? かい or のかい is a casual, rustic or colloquial, normally masculine speech pattern form of か or のか (you can also say だい instead of だ), often intended to illicit a yes or no response. I prefer rustic over colloquial because I don't think (though I might be wrong) it's associated with any particular region.
