TCG Letter #555 / Carpenter Letter #193

Tolkien discusses the concept of "accent" in the context of representing different languages, particularly the Common Speech (C.S.) in his legendarium. Tolkien acknowledges that, in reality, users of the C.S. would reveal regional, social, and rank-based accents. However, he deems it impractical to represent these accents when translating the Common Speech into English, asserting that he already paid attention to linguistic differentiation in terms of diction and idiom.