barks dialects

[jgarvin]

Rob Klein wrote:
"The use of "de" for "the", "dose" for "those", "dem"
for "them", etc. is used to portray uneducated, unsophisticated, simple
folk,
(as was the desired image of criminals in Disney stories.  The use of
nonofficial language by the main characters was to bring everyday speech
into
the story to make it more realistic."

Actually, "dese" and "dose" and "dem" seems to be a parody of the heavy
Bronx "bad guy" accent which Hollywood used in most gangster films of
the period, as opposed to a country bumpkin accent, which you can find
in Lil Abner, for instance.