Regarding the Dutch story where Donald imitates a cat, I really loved it.
It's just like Donald to get so totally obsessed with something trivial and
pointless.
Dwight Decker says that Pegleg Pete has no accent - what do I know. I got
this idea from a recent post by David Gerstein, where he said:
> Pete, as usual in DD stories, uses a silly alias -- in this case,
> Woimly Filcher. But his dialect, personality and (of course) appearance
> are obvious as always.
Author
Topic: 199410
(172 messages)
Erik Corry
Donald imitates cat story
Message 166 -
1994-10-31 at 03:40:02
H.W. Fluks
Disney-comics digest #476.
Message 167 -
1994-10-31 at 12:55:59
Don (I assume you read this when you have returned to the USA):
Yes, I mixed up the original and the Gladstone version of Lo$ 5: Gladstone
made Horense's beak smaller, not bigger. Sorry.
David:
> This week's British MM contains [...] a Scalabroni Scrooge two-pager (H89139)
I credited this story to Jose Colomer Fonts (the one Gladstone called
"Colomer" in their credits for "Danger Island"). Why do you think it is
Scalabroni?
Fredrik:
> Seriously, David; there ARE no good Madam Mim stories.
I seem to remember a Mim story that really made me LAUGH (which is rare).
But that was a Dutch story. And Mim was not so nice. So it was probably
not published in Scandinavia.
About the titles in the Database: I'm also curious what Ole has to say
about it. We could decide to list the characters as []\{}| and then write
a little post-processing program to replace them by the characters you want.
One thing I have to do is replace the [] of comments by some other characters.
--Harry.
Yes, I mixed up the original and the Gladstone version of Lo$ 5: Gladstone
made Horense's beak smaller, not bigger. Sorry.
David:
> This week's British MM contains [...] a Scalabroni Scrooge two-pager (H89139)
I credited this story to Jose Colomer Fonts (the one Gladstone called
"Colomer" in their credits for "Danger Island"). Why do you think it is
Scalabroni?
Fredrik:
> Seriously, David; there ARE no good Madam Mim stories.
I seem to remember a Mim story that really made me LAUGH (which is rare).
But that was a Dutch story. And Mim was not so nice. So it was probably
not published in Scandinavia.
About the titles in the Database: I'm also curious what Ole has to say
about it. We could decide to list the characters as []\{}| and then write
a little post-processing program to replace them by the characters you want.
One thing I have to do is replace the [] of comments by some other characters.
--Harry.
Christian Hoepker
Finding e-mail addresses
Message 168 -
1994-10-31 at 18:19:00
Montag, 31.10.94, 18:13
Hi,
i'm searching for a special e-mail-adress. If there is any possibiliti to
find out if:
Walt Disney Company, CA
has an internet adresss or an other e-mail-adress.
Please answer to Christian_Hoepker at Du.Maus.DE.
Thanks for help
Christian
## CrossPoint v3.0 ##
Hi,
i'm searching for a special e-mail-adress. If there is any possibiliti to
find out if:
Walt Disney Company, CA
has an internet adresss or an other e-mail-adress.
Please answer to Christian_Hoepker at Du.Maus.DE.
Thanks for help
Christian
## CrossPoint v3.0 ##
Dwight Decker
Pete's Manner of Speaking
Message 169 -
1994-10-31 at 19:02:40
There seems to be some confusion about what exactly is meant by
the words "accent" and "dialect." My understanding of them is
that Pete has a distinctive personal manner of speaking (the
technical term in linguistics is "idiolect"), but I wouldn't
call it an accent or a dialect. He's a tough guy, not well
educated, impatient, abrasive, bad-tempered, often an outright
criminal: he speaks standard English with no regional accent,
but with often poor grammar, with considerable use of slang
and colloquialisms, not to mention criminal jargon. He doesn't
speak with an accent (in the sense of a foreigner trying to
speak English or a native English-speaker from a region with
a distinctive local pronunciation); he's just rough and a little
sloppy. Different writers approach him with varying degrees of
phonetic spelling, but even if he was written with perfectly
proper English, you'd still know it was him just from his
attitude and maybe an occasional "HAR!" A dialect is more
advanced than a regional accent, and usually includes not
just differences in pronunciation but different words as well.
About the third definition down, my dictionary allows that a
dialect can be the language distinctive of a given class or
profession, so maybe Pete could be described as speaking with
(or in) a criminal dialect -- but I don't think so. Most
writers I've seen have never taken it beyond having Pete use
a word like "loot" or "swag." In any case, an individual
character's distinctive pronunciation or characteristic
choice of words aren't really accents or dialects (unless
the character is, say, Southern American like Brer Rabbit,
or Scottish, like Scrooge's relatives). Goofy and Pete have
distinctive ways of talking, but the word is probably "idiolect."
From reading Barks, I get the idea Scrooge did not speak
with an obvious Scottish accent in the present day. Maybe some
trace of it was left in his pronunciation, but Barks never
spelled it out. Scrooge seemed to talk like an old American
man of the 1950s (which is hardly surprising, since his dialogue
was being written by an American man in later middle age in the
1950s). The Duck Tales innovation of having Alan Young voice
Scrooge with a Scottish accent was kind of strange to me and I'm
not sure I like it.
At Egmont, the house language is English, even though the
company's offices are in Denmark. Comic scripts are in English
so local publishers in umpteen different countries can translate
them into their local languages. In my rendering of scripts by
Danish, Italian, and Swedish writers into English, I've been
told to make the scripts read like they were written in English
in the first place; i.e., they have to read smoothly, as if written
by a native speaker. They have to be funny, yet not depend on puns.
Dialect, phonetic spelling of accents -- all that has to be only
lightly hinted at, if at all, just for the merest touch of flavor,
since it would be lost in the translation and might only confuse
the translators. So imagine Brer Rabbit stories where all the
characters are speaking quite proper English (instead of "Ah'm
takin' a powerful likin' to de notion of whackin' up alongside de
haidbone, Brer Fox," -- insert "you" between whackin' and up).
At Gladstone, since the stories are being published in English,
I can use more exaggerated speech patterns (I really had fun with
the Dutch pirate story I recently translated for Donald Duck
Adventures), but word has come down that Disney itself, which
has to approve stories intended for American publication, gets
Really Nervous about obvious ethnic accents. Well, hush mah mouf!
Hoot mon, laddie! Ach du lieber! Heap bad news for paleface funnybook
writer! Sacre bleu and oo la la! Must use honorable Engrish ranguage
as same is wlitten in honorable grammar book!
Oh well...
--Dwight Decker
the words "accent" and "dialect." My understanding of them is
that Pete has a distinctive personal manner of speaking (the
technical term in linguistics is "idiolect"), but I wouldn't
call it an accent or a dialect. He's a tough guy, not well
educated, impatient, abrasive, bad-tempered, often an outright
criminal: he speaks standard English with no regional accent,
but with often poor grammar, with considerable use of slang
and colloquialisms, not to mention criminal jargon. He doesn't
speak with an accent (in the sense of a foreigner trying to
speak English or a native English-speaker from a region with
a distinctive local pronunciation); he's just rough and a little
sloppy. Different writers approach him with varying degrees of
phonetic spelling, but even if he was written with perfectly
proper English, you'd still know it was him just from his
attitude and maybe an occasional "HAR!" A dialect is more
advanced than a regional accent, and usually includes not
just differences in pronunciation but different words as well.
About the third definition down, my dictionary allows that a
dialect can be the language distinctive of a given class or
profession, so maybe Pete could be described as speaking with
(or in) a criminal dialect -- but I don't think so. Most
writers I've seen have never taken it beyond having Pete use
a word like "loot" or "swag." In any case, an individual
character's distinctive pronunciation or characteristic
choice of words aren't really accents or dialects (unless
the character is, say, Southern American like Brer Rabbit,
or Scottish, like Scrooge's relatives). Goofy and Pete have
distinctive ways of talking, but the word is probably "idiolect."
From reading Barks, I get the idea Scrooge did not speak
with an obvious Scottish accent in the present day. Maybe some
trace of it was left in his pronunciation, but Barks never
spelled it out. Scrooge seemed to talk like an old American
man of the 1950s (which is hardly surprising, since his dialogue
was being written by an American man in later middle age in the
1950s). The Duck Tales innovation of having Alan Young voice
Scrooge with a Scottish accent was kind of strange to me and I'm
not sure I like it.
At Egmont, the house language is English, even though the
company's offices are in Denmark. Comic scripts are in English
so local publishers in umpteen different countries can translate
them into their local languages. In my rendering of scripts by
Danish, Italian, and Swedish writers into English, I've been
told to make the scripts read like they were written in English
in the first place; i.e., they have to read smoothly, as if written
by a native speaker. They have to be funny, yet not depend on puns.
Dialect, phonetic spelling of accents -- all that has to be only
lightly hinted at, if at all, just for the merest touch of flavor,
since it would be lost in the translation and might only confuse
the translators. So imagine Brer Rabbit stories where all the
characters are speaking quite proper English (instead of "Ah'm
takin' a powerful likin' to de notion of whackin' up alongside de
haidbone, Brer Fox," -- insert "you" between whackin' and up).
At Gladstone, since the stories are being published in English,
I can use more exaggerated speech patterns (I really had fun with
the Dutch pirate story I recently translated for Donald Duck
Adventures), but word has come down that Disney itself, which
has to approve stories intended for American publication, gets
Really Nervous about obvious ethnic accents. Well, hush mah mouf!
Hoot mon, laddie! Ach du lieber! Heap bad news for paleface funnybook
writer! Sacre bleu and oo la la! Must use honorable Engrish ranguage
as same is wlitten in honorable grammar book!
Oh well...
--Dwight Decker
Jørgen Andreas Bangor
Mostly about Madam Mim
Message 170 -
1994-10-31 at 19:41:34
David: "The Madam Mim story doesn't sound half bad."
I meant to answer to this several days ago, but when I was
composing my letter, one of the disk servers went down. The one
with my home directory...
David doesn't think it sounds too bad, but hasn't read many
Mim stories. Harry wonders if it's a remake of an older story. The
reason why I don't like it, and probably why Harry think he has read
something like it, is, as Fredrik says, there are 537 other stories
where she's doing about the same thing.
One of the better, though, is a story where a hole lot of new
houses are built in the same area as Mim's. When the houses are
finished and ready to be sold, they want Mim's house removed, because
it doesn't match the other houses. Mim doesn't want to move. They even
offer her one of the new houses if she'll move out of hers. They
explain to her that her house doesn't match the other houses (Mim's
house is _very_ old and shabby), and she solves the problem by changing
all the new houses so they match hers.
At the moment I can only think of two stories where Mim's not too
nice. One of them is a story I mentioned earlier, where Mim and Magica
works together to get the dime. They fail, but the result is that the
dime is out there somewhere, in somones wallet. The solution is that
Scrooge owns every single chewing gum machine (put on a dime, and a
chewing gum comes out...) in the entire country. He'll then check
the dimes from everyone until he finds it.
The other one is a short story where Ludwig van Drake is going
out in the forest, where it's silent, to read his books. Mim is
skeptical in the beginning, she doesn't like noise, but when she
finds out that he's seeking silence she's very cooperative. She even
makes the birds sing with no sound, and put slippers on a rabbit to
make them silent. Then van Drake is going to sleep, and he's snoring...
She haunts him out of the forest, then goes to sleep, and snores so the
roof is lifting from the house.
And, yes, another story comes to mind. I'm afraid this story
would upset some people on the list. In this story Mim becomes a
member of the Junior Woodchucks. As far as I remember she's supposed
to be some sort of adult that's supposed to supply the children with
interesting things. In the end of the day they go inside her house,
and Mim is listing a hole bunch of interesting things (toads, spider
webs, bat wings etc.).
HDL: "WOW! This is the best science lesson we've ever had!"
Mim: "Science lesson? This is the evenings menu."
Whereafter HDL, runs away as fast as they can.
Mim: "Well, this is probably the best after all. I would
never manage to be as nice as these Junior Woodchucks."
"A Goofy Midas"
These Goofy stories don't seem to be very popular...
They were published in Norway in the late 70's and early 80's, and, as
far as I remember, they were very popular. I like them myself, but
unfortunately I miss a few albums (I've never read the Frankenstein
story...).
Erik:
> I love the idea of having the "square" people speaking Nynorsk.
> This, to me, gives exactly the right bizarre touch to them, but
> maybe Norwegians don't find Nynorsk bizarre
Was this sent to the list? I'm actually quoting Dwight here...
Do Norwegians find Nynorsk bizarre? That's a question with a lot of
answers... Some people, usually living in the south eastern part of
Norway (I live there myself), seem to find it very bizarre. I've
never understood why. All Norwegians have to learn both languages
in school. Some people find this very annoying, and want to use
all the time to learn one of them better (if they can't learn to
write in two languages that similar, I don't even think they can
handle _one_ of them). These are, of course, the "fanatics" that want
Nynorsk removed.
On the oposite side are the people who are insulted with the
smallest sign of making fun of Nynorsk (I guess some of them want
Bokmal removed...).
The rest of us laugh at the two extremes (remember: This is
_not_ the U.S. :)
Anyway, the people who use Nynorsk regularly, is a minority,
so in any way, Nynorsk is some kind of different. The "experiment"
with strange people speaking Nynorsk has not been repeated, though,
except for the reprint.
And, yes. Don Rosa is coming to the university on Wednesday :-)
Jorgen A. Bangor (jorgenb at ifi.uio.no)
I meant to answer to this several days ago, but when I was
composing my letter, one of the disk servers went down. The one
with my home directory...
David doesn't think it sounds too bad, but hasn't read many
Mim stories. Harry wonders if it's a remake of an older story. The
reason why I don't like it, and probably why Harry think he has read
something like it, is, as Fredrik says, there are 537 other stories
where she's doing about the same thing.
One of the better, though, is a story where a hole lot of new
houses are built in the same area as Mim's. When the houses are
finished and ready to be sold, they want Mim's house removed, because
it doesn't match the other houses. Mim doesn't want to move. They even
offer her one of the new houses if she'll move out of hers. They
explain to her that her house doesn't match the other houses (Mim's
house is _very_ old and shabby), and she solves the problem by changing
all the new houses so they match hers.
At the moment I can only think of two stories where Mim's not too
nice. One of them is a story I mentioned earlier, where Mim and Magica
works together to get the dime. They fail, but the result is that the
dime is out there somewhere, in somones wallet. The solution is that
Scrooge owns every single chewing gum machine (put on a dime, and a
chewing gum comes out...) in the entire country. He'll then check
the dimes from everyone until he finds it.
The other one is a short story where Ludwig van Drake is going
out in the forest, where it's silent, to read his books. Mim is
skeptical in the beginning, she doesn't like noise, but when she
finds out that he's seeking silence she's very cooperative. She even
makes the birds sing with no sound, and put slippers on a rabbit to
make them silent. Then van Drake is going to sleep, and he's snoring...
She haunts him out of the forest, then goes to sleep, and snores so the
roof is lifting from the house.
And, yes, another story comes to mind. I'm afraid this story
would upset some people on the list. In this story Mim becomes a
member of the Junior Woodchucks. As far as I remember she's supposed
to be some sort of adult that's supposed to supply the children with
interesting things. In the end of the day they go inside her house,
and Mim is listing a hole bunch of interesting things (toads, spider
webs, bat wings etc.).
HDL: "WOW! This is the best science lesson we've ever had!"
Mim: "Science lesson? This is the evenings menu."
Whereafter HDL, runs away as fast as they can.
Mim: "Well, this is probably the best after all. I would
never manage to be as nice as these Junior Woodchucks."
"A Goofy Midas"
These Goofy stories don't seem to be very popular...
They were published in Norway in the late 70's and early 80's, and, as
far as I remember, they were very popular. I like them myself, but
unfortunately I miss a few albums (I've never read the Frankenstein
story...).
Erik:
> I love the idea of having the "square" people speaking Nynorsk.
> This, to me, gives exactly the right bizarre touch to them, but
> maybe Norwegians don't find Nynorsk bizarre
Was this sent to the list? I'm actually quoting Dwight here...
Do Norwegians find Nynorsk bizarre? That's a question with a lot of
answers... Some people, usually living in the south eastern part of
Norway (I live there myself), seem to find it very bizarre. I've
never understood why. All Norwegians have to learn both languages
in school. Some people find this very annoying, and want to use
all the time to learn one of them better (if they can't learn to
write in two languages that similar, I don't even think they can
handle _one_ of them). These are, of course, the "fanatics" that want
Nynorsk removed.
On the oposite side are the people who are insulted with the
smallest sign of making fun of Nynorsk (I guess some of them want
Bokmal removed...).
The rest of us laugh at the two extremes (remember: This is
_not_ the U.S. :)
Anyway, the people who use Nynorsk regularly, is a minority,
so in any way, Nynorsk is some kind of different. The "experiment"
with strange people speaking Nynorsk has not been repeated, though,
except for the reprint.
And, yes. Don Rosa is coming to the university on Wednesday :-)
Jorgen A. Bangor (jorgenb at ifi.uio.no)
Dwight Decker
Returned mail
Message 171 -
1994-10-31 at 20:45:08
There are some things I don't understand about the inner workings
of this list. Whenever I post a message, I get three or four copies
returned from me saying "undeliverable" or "host unknown," but other
people respond to it, so somebody must be getting it. Not all e-mail
addresses seem to work both ways, either. David Gerstein sent me a
private e-mail note today, which I received okay. I spent half an
hour and 91 lines replying to it, only to get it back with a "host
unknown" message two minutes later. After this I'm sorely tempted
to throw a brick through the screen and go back to stamps and
envelopes...
--Dwight Decker
of this list. Whenever I post a message, I get three or four copies
returned from me saying "undeliverable" or "host unknown," but other
people respond to it, so somebody must be getting it. Not all e-mail
addresses seem to work both ways, either. David Gerstein sent me a
private e-mail note today, which I received okay. I spent half an
hour and 91 lines replying to it, only to get it back with a "host
unknown" message two minutes later. After this I'm sorely tempted
to throw a brick through the screen and go back to stamps and
envelopes...
--Dwight Decker
Dwight Decker
Answer to David
Message 172 -
1994-10-31 at 20:58:19
>
Apparently I can't access Edinburgh even though Edinburgh can get through
to me. Let's try this again, but this time I'll CC the entire disney-comics
group. Fortunately, it's of general interest. David Gerstein wrote to ask
me about a 39-page Italian Mickey Mouse "which-way" story I translated for
Gladstone's editor John Clark...
> >
> > I can't contain my curiosity any longer! What is the Mickey
> > Mouse "which-way" story about, and what's it like, in general? Also,
> > has John talked to you lately about DM and mentioned what direction
> > it's going to be taking? I have to admit I don't know anyone who
> > wouldn't rather see Egmont stories to Diaz ones, no matter how they
> > might like the latter. But I can't talk to John about it, because I
> > can't afford to phone him for any decent length of time... just
> > enough time to discuss, briefly, what I'm doing for him at
> > time-of-call.
>
> Gladstone is a local call for me, but John always seems to be pretty busy,
> so I can't just call and chat about the general direction of the books and
> so on. I honestly don't know what they're planning with the Mickey Mouse
> story. It's a 39-page digest-sized story that John told me they'll run
> at full comic-book page size (if only so they don't have to cut and paste
> three-tier pages to four-tier pages -- the story is intricately keyed to
> page numbers, and if they mess with the format, proofreading would be a
> nightmare). If that means they're doing a giant-sized Donald and Mickey
> issue, I don't know. Actually, it's more like 38 pages: the 39th page is
> a complete waste with Mickey and Goofy addressing the reader and crowing
> about what an innovation the story you just read was -- I have to translate
> it so John knows what it is, but I doubt if Gladstone would run it.
> Basically, the story is Mickey and Goofy exploring a supposedly haunted
> castle, with something like six different alternative plotlines and endings.
> Every few pages there's a decision point where the reader can decide how
> he wants the story to go: "If you believe in ghosts, turn to page 14!
> If you're skeptical about the supernatural, go to page 20!" In the ghost
> plotline, Mickey and Goofy encounter a real spook: the ghost of the long
> dead nobleman who once inhabited the castle. When he was alive, Lord Prank
> was a hopeless practical joker who delighted in tormenting his subjects
> with nasty jokes, but because he was so powerful and important, nobody
> dared stand up to him. As a ghost, he has been condemned to haunting the
> castle and playing tricks on visitors until somebody finally gets fed up
> and tells him off. After four centuries, Mickey and Goofy are the first
> ones to do so, and Lord Prank is now free to go on to eternal rest. In
> the skeptical plotline, the strange noises heard about the castle at
> night are found to have a rational explanation (such as a film crew
> shooting a movie).
> >
> > Well, I must be off -- now that I think about it, do you have
> > knowledge of when John's going to print the other stories you've
> > worked on, that you told me about? (The Duck ones, I mean)
> >
> John hasn't told me much of anything. I did two 25-page Dutch stories
> this summer: "The Lost Treasure of Khaos" and "The Treasure of Ringtail
> van Dukke" (provisional titles -- lots of treasures, I admit). These will
> be in Uncle Scrooge Adventures and Donald Duck Adventures respectively
> sometime next year.
> There's a 21-page Dutch story set in Scotland in the works. Don Rosa
> warned me that Gladstone had trouble with Disney over the use of Scottish
> accents in his Life of Scrooge stories, so I called John to find out what
> the policy was. The reply was basically go easy on the phonetic spelling.
> Suggest the Scottish accent with an occasional "aye" or "laddie," but
> don't spell every word phonetically. It sounded like Disney wasn't so much
> concerned with political correctness as just not overdoing the accent and
> making it seem like Scottish people talk weird, especially to American
> children who have little idea of what an actual Scottish accent sounds
> like and less idea exactly what Rosa was trying to convey. Readability
> is the first concern.
> Hope this answers your questions--
>
> --Dwight Decker
>
I hope this goes through -- anything to avoid having to retype it!
--DD
Apparently I can't access Edinburgh even though Edinburgh can get through
to me. Let's try this again, but this time I'll CC the entire disney-comics
group. Fortunately, it's of general interest. David Gerstein wrote to ask
me about a 39-page Italian Mickey Mouse "which-way" story I translated for
Gladstone's editor John Clark...
> >
> > I can't contain my curiosity any longer! What is the Mickey
> > Mouse "which-way" story about, and what's it like, in general? Also,
> > has John talked to you lately about DM and mentioned what direction
> > it's going to be taking? I have to admit I don't know anyone who
> > wouldn't rather see Egmont stories to Diaz ones, no matter how they
> > might like the latter. But I can't talk to John about it, because I
> > can't afford to phone him for any decent length of time... just
> > enough time to discuss, briefly, what I'm doing for him at
> > time-of-call.
>
> Gladstone is a local call for me, but John always seems to be pretty busy,
> so I can't just call and chat about the general direction of the books and
> so on. I honestly don't know what they're planning with the Mickey Mouse
> story. It's a 39-page digest-sized story that John told me they'll run
> at full comic-book page size (if only so they don't have to cut and paste
> three-tier pages to four-tier pages -- the story is intricately keyed to
> page numbers, and if they mess with the format, proofreading would be a
> nightmare). If that means they're doing a giant-sized Donald and Mickey
> issue, I don't know. Actually, it's more like 38 pages: the 39th page is
> a complete waste with Mickey and Goofy addressing the reader and crowing
> about what an innovation the story you just read was -- I have to translate
> it so John knows what it is, but I doubt if Gladstone would run it.
> Basically, the story is Mickey and Goofy exploring a supposedly haunted
> castle, with something like six different alternative plotlines and endings.
> Every few pages there's a decision point where the reader can decide how
> he wants the story to go: "If you believe in ghosts, turn to page 14!
> If you're skeptical about the supernatural, go to page 20!" In the ghost
> plotline, Mickey and Goofy encounter a real spook: the ghost of the long
> dead nobleman who once inhabited the castle. When he was alive, Lord Prank
> was a hopeless practical joker who delighted in tormenting his subjects
> with nasty jokes, but because he was so powerful and important, nobody
> dared stand up to him. As a ghost, he has been condemned to haunting the
> castle and playing tricks on visitors until somebody finally gets fed up
> and tells him off. After four centuries, Mickey and Goofy are the first
> ones to do so, and Lord Prank is now free to go on to eternal rest. In
> the skeptical plotline, the strange noises heard about the castle at
> night are found to have a rational explanation (such as a film crew
> shooting a movie).
> >
> > Well, I must be off -- now that I think about it, do you have
> > knowledge of when John's going to print the other stories you've
> > worked on, that you told me about? (The Duck ones, I mean)
> >
> John hasn't told me much of anything. I did two 25-page Dutch stories
> this summer: "The Lost Treasure of Khaos" and "The Treasure of Ringtail
> van Dukke" (provisional titles -- lots of treasures, I admit). These will
> be in Uncle Scrooge Adventures and Donald Duck Adventures respectively
> sometime next year.
> There's a 21-page Dutch story set in Scotland in the works. Don Rosa
> warned me that Gladstone had trouble with Disney over the use of Scottish
> accents in his Life of Scrooge stories, so I called John to find out what
> the policy was. The reply was basically go easy on the phonetic spelling.
> Suggest the Scottish accent with an occasional "aye" or "laddie," but
> don't spell every word phonetically. It sounded like Disney wasn't so much
> concerned with political correctness as just not overdoing the accent and
> making it seem like Scottish people talk weird, especially to American
> children who have little idea of what an actual Scottish accent sounds
> like and less idea exactly what Rosa was trying to convey. Readability
> is the first concern.
> Hope this answers your questions--
>
> --Dwight Decker
>
I hope this goes through -- anything to avoid having to retype it!
--DD