Date:  Sat, 12 Mar 1994 10:38:39 PST

From:  Ed Finegan <finegan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BCF.USC.EDU>

Subject: Re: Actors & Accent



I wonder whether attempts at foreign and regional and historical accents

wouldn't be better viewed as a kind of "ear dialect" comparable to "eye

dialect," where accuracy is not the object so much as suggestivity. Of

course, there are cases where especially historical accuracy may be prized,

and there are certainly some accentually impressive actors, but, as witeye

dialect, the suggeson of a different world may be suffifor some p

purposes. ALAS.



Ed Finegan