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Wait, is this the accent where they pronounce "water" like "wadugh"? Because they sound ridiculous. And I live in America where we have just so damned many stupid accents.
Not quite - though I'm not sure what you mean exactly. It's about "ar" being pronounced either like "ah/uh" or "aRRR!/uRRR!" (Like a pirate, or breakfast cereal Tiger).
If "Baa" like a sheep and "Bar" like where you order drinks in a pub are pronounced the same, like "bah" = non-rhotic.
A pirate, or farmer from cornwall saying "Arr!" is very Rhotic.
As far as I'm aware, the majority of American accents are rhotic
It's a nationwide thing which to be honest I have not noticed with R's.
However, you are correct in the dropping of T's where preceded with a vowel. The T is pronounced from the back of the throat like the smallest of coughs or throat clearing. I'm not even sure how to phonetically spell it but the closest is "up" without the p. It's crap, silly, lazy.
Wa(u)er Bu(u) Ye(u) I(u)...
... and so it goes. It winds me up when I hear it and correct them with "There's a T in water... tttt". Petty but annoying.
Don't get me started on "like", that's another awful habit.
I can only apologise that myself and the entire Northern half of the country offend you so much, though I'd call that a glottal stop, rather than a "lazy dropped T".
I guess it cropping up unexpectedly in some accents/dialects might seem lazy, but in the North, where we talk proper (as opposed to talking "properly" down South), that's how those words are meant to sound :)