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McCarthy, who seems to be contemptuous of punctuation in any language, rarely writes accents where they are not needed but often omits them where they are, e.g., mia [pp. 90, 117]; borrachon [p. 227]; mascara [p. 229]; perdida [p. 283]; asi [p. 284]; haran [pt. 290]; and que [p. 318].
The silly accents, the comical food, the inadequate TV shows--it must be foreigners.
...the tendency, which now pervades the whole of our society, for us to attach to particular accents certain generalized assumptions about the values and attributes considered typical of certain social groups.
There are only two acceptable accents for a contemporary American leader--Sincere Southern (favored by Bill Clinton and every other pol who's ever lived south of New York) and Flat Corporate (preferred by CEOs).
It should be noted, however, that these singular odds and ends of regional accents are far from being useful for an actor aspiring to become the next Meryl Streep, mistress of the (virtual) dialect.