Writing In Accents: A Mistake?

[Tiria Wildlough]

I can write them, but I have trouble speaking them.

[Leatho Shellhound]

I can read them!!!

[Mattio]

Hahaha I'm with Leatho

[Leatho Shellhound]

That makes two of us.

[Mattio]

yes so it does (7 MORE POSTS)

[Lutra]

If you didn't have accents in a story, it implies that all characters are of the same culture, the same country, and the same lifestyle.  Redwall isn't like that.  The characters are not homogenous.  Redwall is different from Salamandastron, which is different from the Northlands, even though good beasts have come from these areas.  Its natural growing up in different places nets different accents and different speech and words.  If everyone spoke the same in Redwall it would seem sterile and unnatural.

[WildDoogyPlumm]

My opinion: I think the accents were fine because Brian Jacques knew how to write them well.  If he couldn't write them well, they wouldn't have worked, but he did.  And I agree with the post above me: there is supposed to be differentiation between the cultures and homelands and lives of the characters from all different parts of the Redwall universe.

[Rusvul]

I can write them, but I have trouble speaking them.

I'm the other way around, hard to write, easy to read. especially molespeak.

[Ungatt Trunn]

I can read them!!!

So can I! I think that different acsents add some flavor to the characters in the Redwall books.

[Redwaller]

I don't have trouble to read or hear accents and understanding.

And accents add to the experience.

[Firehawke]

It sometimes takes me little bit of extra time to understand what's being said when a new accent gets introduced, but I love the accents!!!!!!!  They add so much color to the stories 

[Thomas Barkshield]

The accents are fairly funny and easy to understand, if only he added some Shakespearean animals - now THAT would have been funny.

[Sailears]

I can write them, but I have trouble speaking them.

Hehe, other way round for me - I can speak/understand, but struggle to write anything in accent.

I think it was a fantastic choice on his part to write in accents.

[MeadowR]

^ Aye! I guess that's another thing that keeps the Redwall books fairly unique.

[Faiyloe]

At first I had trouble understanding mole speech but after a bit I got the hang of it.