Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Trope Talk: Accents" video.

  1. Accents can give a work some exotic charm, when you're being pushed a little bit outside your linguistic comfort zone. Howard Pyle's "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" is a work I enjoyed for this reason. The nautical jargon of O'Brien's Aubrey and Maturin series was fun too.
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  2. Hold on, San Francisco has its own dialect? Really?
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  3. By the way, Scrooge McDuck has a Scots accent because Scots are supposed to be cheap. Don't tell Disney though, they might cancel him because that's racist or something. =(
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  4. Question for the weebs: What is the honorific "-dono", like Kenshin calls Kaoru? Where does that fit in the -sama / -san / -kun / -chan hierarchy?
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  5. How do you get through a video on accents without citing Kipling even once? Another interesting movie that mapped the diversity of accents of a large, semi-imperial country was "The Death of Stalin". I'm still waiting for the live-action version of the Gospels that gives everyone from Galilee a New Jersey accent. (Snarky, snobbish comments like "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" came from somewhere, after all.)
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