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A Guide to Accents


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Incredible work as always Sagwort. 

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be a good asian and go back to homework borchadonger

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Oh man, this is amazing. Def going to speak with a cockney accent now. V in-depth +1

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2 hours ago, Sagwort said:

 

 

 

Vocabulary

Do = “Dost"

Are = “Art"

Hello = “Good morrow”, “Good den”

Good bye = “Anon”, “Fare thee well”

Please = “Prithee”

Hey! = “Hark!”

Alas = “Alack”

Soon = “Anon”

Truthfully = “Forsooth”

Please tell me = “Pray tell”

Very = “Verily”

Here = “Hither”

Unless = “Lest”

Nothing = “Naught”

There = “Thither”

Where, from where = “Whence”

 

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I needed this my senior year of highschool two years ago when I read Hammy let. :^)

 

 

And this is a pretty damn good guide, thank you for such.

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4 hours ago, Sagwort said:

The “uh” and “oh” sound in “cup”, “love”, and “stone” becomes “coop”, “loove” and “stoone”.  This is a very rough phonetic spelling and not exact.

 

I almost fell over when I first heard a Durhamite pronounce "lunch". It's closer to "lynch" than a normal "bunch".

 

But to be rather honest, I can easily get annoyed by accents in roleplay. I find it completely pointless after a point to write sentences like "Ach, ja zhe zawoiardz a kommin." because it's just a paint for the eyes and five seconds deducted from RP spent trying to figure out the meaning whereas characters would probably be comfortable understanding these. I always prefer a simple 'XY spoke in a butchered savoyard accent. "Right, what're you doing here?" '.

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This is quite useful, thank you.

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5 hours ago, Sagwort said:

Bristolian

B  R  I  S  T  O  L
R
I
S
T
O
L

5 hours ago, Sagwort said:

Dialect

  • Use “ain’t”.
  • Use doubles negatives such as “I didn’t see nofing!”
  • Use “me” instead of “my”.  So “I’m going to walk me dog.”
  • Instead of saying “we were” say “we was”.  For instance, “When we was…”


"In'it" instead of "isn't it" and "Alright mi luvvar" are pretty essential for Bristolian. 

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Not to put the work down at all, but it's also plausible to emote your character having an accent and leaving it up to another player's interpretation/imagination. Probably saves a lot of confusion too.

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Dear people with Auvergnian accents. Replacing W sounds with V sounds, is a german thing, not french. Th sounds to S or Z sounds, however, are completely correct.

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