Profiling characters through typing

[Racetyme]

Well, in any case, Loki from Lakeside is consistent, even according to your standards Schme, he was born with no one around him and lived for years alone before others showed up, so everyone else is the inconsistent one, by not speaking like him.

[Pie]

well.. somtimes i play at school.

but i just think faster than my fingers can type. Somtimes my fingers mess up, and i forget to backspace. Either that or i don't know how to spell somthing and just gues at its spelling.

[Schme]

Well, in any case, Loki from Lakeside is consistent, even according to your standards Schme, he was born with no one around him and lived for years alone before others showed up, so everyone else is the inconsistent one, by not speaking like him.

Well, that's different. That character not trying to speak with a Romanian accent when no one else speak like that. Very different.



Pie, nobody can write as fast as they think. But why can you not just write slowly? Or perhaps read over what you've written?

[Wolf]

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Makes no sense to have a different accent from the people you are born with and grow up around. That just doesn't happen.

Well, I would think if we stuck to that, the English speaking part of Cantr might become very, very quiet when all the non-English speaking players' characters are filtered out because of that.

Besides, isn't it roleplay?
If you want to be as specific as you'd like to be, then you'd also have to stick to how roleplay carries with it that people play out roles of characters that they aren't, in real life, and that includes the full range, be it a guy playing a female char (or vice versa), a French player who happens to know (for example) Greek well enough, to play a Greek char... and if that Frenchmen happens to know Greekl as it is spoken in a certain area of Greece, then it makes sense that his Greek char speaks that dialect.

But if you want an RL example...
I'm born and raised Dutch.
Grew up with Dutch people.
I picked up English in several ways, and in several variations.
There were no oldfashioned Irish speakers in my life, yet when I grow up, I speak in a thick Irish accent, and even use a fair bit of Gaelic, of which I never knew I learnt it at all... and trust me, I'd know when I learnt a language.
At first I thought it to be just my drunkeness, causing me to make up a dialect, but a few years back I had two Irish people in a bar who could've sworn I was from their neck of the woods.
German, I learnt enough to hold my own in a regular conversaion, but never learnt technological terms and stuff... two years back at a camping, I found some German drinkingbuddies, and we ended up discussing technology... in German... and I got everything right, linguistically.

Point I'm trying to make here, some of us just have a thing with picking up languages, and dialects are still languages.
So it would seem that "That just doesn't happen" just doesn't happen

And Loki is a good example, I kinda like the way he sounds.
There's also a "mean ol' Scottish seadog soundin'" guy who is a leader in another place that one of my chars passed through, who seems to pull off that combination perfectly.
In that case, it's actually harder to read, but reading his lines twice makes it perfectly clear.
And that might help in gameplay; it makes one really pay attention to what is being said.

*shudders at the thought of the Dutch and Flemish players breaking up in dialects* trust me, we don't need Gronings, Frysian, Drents, Twents, Limburgs, and the rest... heh...
(Actually, now that one of my chars just died, I might try my hand at a Dutch char who has a thick accent... heh... well, I can pull off the spoken dialect, but typing it out might need a bit of practice.)

[BlueNine]

I find people speaking in accents annoying if they're not consistent...or if its too difficult to understand. Although saying that I do have a character which I gave an accent to, but its an essex one and I'm from essex so its just natural

[Racetyme]

All of my speak regular boring Americanized English, because I am from Colorado and we tend not to have accents out here.

[chadpants]

To all you outside of the U.S... please forgive this tiny tangent...

...but Racetyme, people in every part of the States have a different accent... some are just more pronounced than others. Compare any American to the British, or the Irish, or Australian. Trust me, we have accents.

[Racetyme]

Listen to the people on the national news. I talk just like that. I consider it the neutral speech pattern of the United States, that is why the national newscasters use it.

[chadpants]

People here in the Pacific Northwest say the same newscaster thing... but I can hear a difference between a Seattle dialect to a Denver.

Plus, listen to the news in New York or Florida. The newscasters there have a twinge of a regional accent.

[Racetyme]

Notice I said national newscasters. I mean national TV, like the CBS evening news, which is broadcast across the whole country, not local news.

[MrPenguin589]

There is something I wonder about. People who speak with accents, do they hear themselves speaking normally, or withthe accent? Or is the accent speaking normally to them? The way I speak, I consider it "normal," with no accent. But people from say the east coast or England or something would probably say I have an accent. So ya, that's all I have to say.

[HoH]

There is something I wonder about. People who speak with accents, do they hear themselves speaking normally, or withthe accent? Or is the accent speaking normally to them? The way I speak, I consider it "normal," with no accent. But people from say the east coast or England or something would probably say I have an accent. So ya, that's all I have to say.

Whoa. Nice thought process.

[AoM]

Everyone has an accent. Americans have an American accent. Within America you can have a Southern Accent, a Eastern accent, a Midwestern accent, a West Coast accent...etc...

Within the Eastern accent group you can have a New Yorker accent, a Bostonian accent, a Maine-er accent...etc...

and the bubble just keeps getting smaller until you realize that it's you. You have your very own accent.