You know, you raise an intriguing question here... to quote, "The
difficulty comes in trying to write those accents into their speech,
especially when the reader only has a word balloon on a sheet of paper
as reference." Now... what if you used a different style font for each
one? (Yes, I know--a real headache) Southern could be represented by a
'Chalkboard' font while Romanian might be a Slavic-looking style and
even the aliens' 'arabic-sounding' accents could be emulated by using a
font that looks a little like Sanscrit (or whatever they call it.) You
know, change the style of lettering to look something like the native
type. Of course, keeping track of all that would be a real pain in the
a**.
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Take a wild, friggin guess"
<a_change_of_plans_at_...> wrote:
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> I dunno about accents; Val is from Vermont and the girls are from
Florida (if I remember correctly). I know a few folks from Vermont, and
they don't seem to have any noticeable accent. And let's face it,
Florida is a melting pot of cultures; there's no discernable accent from
there I can think of (though some people from the northern end and out
west have a southern twang).
>
> There are different characters with accents on the roster, though.
Most of "Caterwaul" is from all over the globe. Tiffany (the fox) is
from Tennessee, Tamara (the cat with braids) is from Chicago, Dinah (the
badger) is from some town I can't recall in England, Veronika (the
vampire bat) is from Romania, D'sanna (the panther) is from South
Africa, Marie (the raccoon) is from France, Denise (the skunk) is from
New York, Ricardo (the raccoon) is from Miami, Florida, Monique (the
fruit bat) is from some French island I can't remember the name of right
now, etcetera. Even characters not from the girls' world have accents
(Onika, Koth and Shek-ti have noticeable Arabic-sounding accents, for
example). The difficulty comes in trying to write those accents into
their speech, especially when the reader only has a word balloon on a
sheet of paper as reference. ;)
>
> --JMH
>
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