Idk If Im Looking Way Too Hard At Nothing, But I Swear That Theres Something Special Going On With Godfreys

idk if I’m looking way too hard at nothing, but I swear that there’s something special going on with Godfrey’s accent in his cutscenes and rhoticity. rhoticity in English refers to the way speakers pronounce the /r/ sound in different contexts— a rhotic speaker will always pronounce the /r/, while a non-rhotic speaker will delete that /r/ when it is after a vowel and before a consonant. take the word ‘tarnished’: a rhotic speaker would pronounce that /r/, while a non-rhotic speaker wouldn’t. non-rhotic speaking in British accents is usually associated with higher social class: think of a stereotypical posh accent. Godfrey speaks with a West Country accent, and the West Country accent is rhotic. however, his accent is not consistently rhotic, and of course people aren’t always consistent in their accents, but the places where Godfrey’s accent is non-rhotic all feel meaningful. when Godfrey addresses the player in his first cutscene, his accent is nonrhotic. you can hear this in words like ‘tarnished warrior’. during Godfrey’s second cutscene, his accent is rhotic, as it would be in a West Country accent. you can hear this in the words ‘courtesy’ and ‘service’. there are also small exceptions to this. when Godfrey is putting Morgott to rest, he pronounces his name in a rhotic accent. when he dies to you, he says ‘tarnished’ in a nonrhotic accent. the rhoticity of his accent is emphasizing the different social classes he’s lived in. he only speaks in a nonrhotic accent when he is in the image of Lord Godfrey. when he’s Hoarah Loux, the rhoticity comes back. his native accent isn’t posh sounding because he doesn’t come from that background. when he’s speaking in a nonrhotic accent, he’s ‘talking up’. the exceptions make sense with this logic, as well. in the first instance, Godfrey is laying his son to rest— of course he would do that in his native accent. why would he talk up to his own child? similarly, when the player kills him, the voice line is ‘brave tarnished, thy strength befits a crown’. he is honoring the player as the noble Elden Lord they are soon to be by ‘talking up’ to them. 

"You should talk like adults about this" i will kill him like an adult bro. I will stomp him to death like an adult. He will die at my hands like an adult.

What about my son?

— BETTER CALL SAUL 6.09: Fun and Games

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i'll have what i'm having

Was rewatching episode 4, season 3 of merlin, and i noticed in the opening, arthur talks about how like 'yeah we should get mead its been a long day of hunting' and merlin just kinda sounds annoyed by the idea of it. and it got me thinking. what if merlin just isn't that much of a tavern guy. like sure arthur probably thinks he is cause of gaius being like "oh well merlins probably just at the tavern" to hide what merlin is doing every time arthur doesnt know where merlin is, but merlin might actually just be not that big on drinking, which would be so funny to me actually. Arthur: you've actually done really good work today Merlin, that's a rare occurence, care to join me at the tavern for a little celebration? i mean, you must know a lot of the locals down there with how much time you spend at the tavern, so you could introduce me to some new people, we might find some new guys to train for knights with how good you are at finding guys like that. Merlin, who just does not go to the tavern that often because he is busy saving the kingdom, arthur, himself, working his ass off to do other stuff, helping gaius with whatever herb he needs, and just isn't the biggest fan of mead: oh. uh. yes. the tavern. that i am often at. with the people. that i know. very well. yes. we can go. And on the way there he sneakily gets a bunch of servants to tell some of the knights that Merlin is telling them to go to the tavern so he can just put Arthur with them and sneak off while Arthur is occupied with the knights, because as much as he loves Arthur, he just cannot be bothered with the tavern after a hard day of work.