Benny's bad grammar


Has anybody else noticed that Benny often uses bad grammar in this film. "Now we can't play no more" and "We gotta buy us a ball" are two examples. I wonder if this was an artistic choice on the part of the filmmakers. I've noticed that works of fiction, especially ones set in the past, do this to make a character seem low class (because they don't have much education). Do you think that was the case with Benny? In this setting, school was easily available but he could have had relatives who didn't have much education (possibly immigrants from Mexico) that affected his speech. Or it could have been meant to make him sound casual or something. Or it could have meant nothing.

What do you think?

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So just because Benny is Latino, he's automatically from Mexico? I presume you've never looked at a world map. There are many Latin countries! What an idiotic comment.

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I can speak with a patricians accent. I can also speak in inner-city dialect. I can speak like I'm from the Iron Range. I can speak an accent that is a patois of Finnish and Ojibwe. I can speak in any accent that matches a place that I've lived in.

One changes one's accent depending on circumstances. No worries.

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He sounded like he was from New York.

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