[Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name

[Howard Brazee]

On Jan 15, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Eugene Zaretskiy wrote:

>> My favorite use of accents that people complain about though is in using Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October.   A Scottish accent was perfect for a person from a non-Russian country in the Roman empire - from a country that is known for providing exactly the same type of technical expertise that caused Star Trek to create Scotty.    (And the whole ship was speaking Russian - in English).
> 
> In my experience, most such complaints stem not from the accuracy of
> accent, but the (perceived) nationality of the character and a sense
> of... senseless (to me) nationalism. In the same vein, edit wars are
> fought on Wikipedia from time to time about the nationality of figures
> like Orpheus. Mythical figures, that is.

Some people have complained that Avatar is anti-American.   I bet they wouldn't have complained if humans had spoken with an accent.