re: #311 Occasional Reader

I also found that annoying. Either be authentic, challenge the audience, and have everyone speak in the actual language (with subtitles); or, simply have the English-speaking actors speak English, with the shared understanding with your audience that we’re making believe they’re speaking Yiddish. But English with the phoney-baloney accent? It’s kind of insulting to the audience. (Also, it seems to be a conciet unique to Hollywood; you don’t see, for instance, movies from the Spanish-speaking world, in which Americans are depicted as standing around speaking to each other in Spanish with American accents.)

Speaking with an accent in movies doesn’t really bother me. What does bother me is when I see an American in Germany for example, speak English with a German accent and expecting to be understood. Kind of hilarious actually.