twooffour said:

Then you probably haven't paid attention.

And now I roll my eyes at you. I was tempted not even to read the rest of your post after that insulting of a start... So thanks...

So if you've ever wondered why everybody's complaining about the Neimoidians, but hardly anyone gets offended by Vader saying "thy bidding", the above might be the reason.

It's become an OT.com joke now, but I have to say, with a straight face... sounds like a double standard to me. That and a completely localized mindset that sees itself as neutral and everything else as foreign. At that point, the burden is on your (generally speaking) limited scope, not on the work.

I'd say this applies even more to foreign languages, and ACCENTS, than dialects.

Um, what? Accents and dialects are the same thing. Although I do certainly agree that dialects make for easy characterization. That's not the issue here. It's whether it's supposedly "jarring" to not sound American. Your following list of examples right here prove that it's not, as they're used time and again successfully to convey certain things. The only thing that gets people's panties in a wad is when those dialects are used to portray negative things, at which point they need a firm dose of "get the hell over it."