Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for October 26, 2017

Even Mark Twain made Jim in “Huckleberry Finn” talk in an accent to make non-Southerners imagine the accent.

Yes, it is funny – because normal people know what is real, and what is exaggerated for sense of comedy. Or is she supposed to think the magazine is a documentary?

A lot of books were in all kinds of accents, now that is racist too?

Two words: Katzenjammer Kids.

Tank you, Tue. You expressed my thought better than I would have, but it would have been funny if you had used an accent.

Dialect comedians were popular in Vaudeville. It was an attempt to get the pot to melt by ridiculing immigrant attempts at the moderately unphonetic English language. Now we just try to keep them out entirely.

Yes, all immigrants must endure that until they blend into the society they have joined.

The Janos Poha character in Ghostbusters II had an interesting accent.

I wonder if that’s why, as a kid, I never really liked Speedy Gonzalez cartoons?

We still poke fun at regional accents.

~ When you are depicting different nationalities, for English speakers, it helps to write out the dialog the way native speakers would say it. It adds to authenticity.