Any Day Now

Madam Ilham is intended to have an accent and imperfect English, which hopefully explains her unusual grammar.

It’s amazing what the addition of an accent does– not necessarily in comics but in everything, especially movies.  A New England accent makes you sound tough.  A California accent makes you sound like an airhead.  Indian accents make you goofy and an English accent either makes you erudite or evil.  Meanwhile, an Asian accent makes you sound….Chinese.

In my freshman year of college I had a calculus professor with a really thick Norwegian accent.  He pronounced “angle” literally as “angel” and that was about the most decipherable thing he ever spoke.  The class emptied out pretty rapidly and despite knowing I was going to ditch, I showed up for the first few minutes of class anyway.  I’ll never forget one time I was getting out of my seat and walking up the stairs of the amphitheater when I just happened to glance behind myself to see him staring right at me, his eyes sad and moist like a puppy pining for its mother.  I panicked briefly, half wanting to run and half wanting to sit back down.  Eventually I managed to turn away and walk briskly out of the lecture hall, never again returning to the class except to attend exams.

See, now if he only had a smart, English accent then things woulda been just dandy.

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