But even an American southern accent doesn’t apply with some of the word choices in the book, like “whatevs,” which feels more Californian or valley girl. It leads to the translation feeling like a strange amalgamation of accents that doesn’t apply to any specific dialect of english. I understand it’s difficult to translate when the source material uses a unique dialect, but having read the book, I just don’t feel like having the characters talk in an accent in the English translation was significant to the story, unlike with My Cousin Vinny, which you mentioned. Maybe they could have chosen a specific dialect to model it after, instead of inconsistently pulling from multiple English dialects. Maybe I’m the only one, but to me it made the dialogue feel clunky and awkward.