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And even if it is your native language, you’ll still have an accent! There’s so much variety in how people speak the same language, down (past Boston, London, Appalachian, Scottish, etc.) to the individual person, and that’s beautiful.
Controversial opinion of the day: It’s okay to have accents. It’s not your native language. If they make fun of you that’s messed up.
Imagine this: fairy tail, but most of the dub voice acting was all in Irish or Scottish accents.
The music of fairy tail seems kind of irish or scottish to me and it would be so cool if that was reflected in the voice acting.
Not even just irish accents. I feel like Lucy- since she’s new to Magnolia and her family’s rich- would have an received British pronunciation which slowly becomes a bit more Irish over time. Wendy and Carla could sound welsh or something similar for a while, but Wendy’s accent would sound a bit more scottish/ irish over time. Sabertooth could all have cockney accents and quatro cerberus could all speak like road men.
In the 100 year quest, as they venture onto new lands, they could move on to north american accents, every town they visit sounding slightly different.
I’d love it if anime dubs spread out from normal american accents. They don’t add as much to the character as other things could.
What kind of dumbass thinks the guy on the left is Alfredo? Don’t you recognize him? He’s very well known for this one parade, the effects were mind blowing. The Cyber Impressions Association helped him a lot with them tho.
TL:DR the person two above me is stupid and the person three above was right to begin with
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
i found out today that when i’m frustrated or upset i slip into an accent
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Describing Accents
Anonymous asked: Hey there! In the story I am writing it takes place on a different planet. However I really want a certain race of people to have African accents. How do I describe accents that don’t necessarily exist? I hope that made sense!
There’s a wealth of ways to encapsulate an accent, what with all the words available to you. It’s a matter of how straight-forward or creative you want to go. Maybe some of the methods below will help.
Adjective:
She had a fragile accent.
The people had throaty voices, sawing out words in blunt grumbles.
Metaphoric:
His voice was splinters and broken glass.
Her accent had a song-like quality that reminded her of swaying tides.
Straight-forward:
He had a French accent.
“I have to go,” she said, though from her accent, French, the words sounded more like “I hive tego.”
Straight-forward & ‘Technical’:
He had a French accent, perhaps Northern, his voice lilting the edges of his vowels and dragging out others.
Some methods work better in combination with others, such as straight-forward combined with technical (as shown). It truly shouldn’t take many sentences to give readers enough info to imagine how someone’s voice or accent sounds. Therefore I wouldn’t overdue the clues, as it can stir into offensive.
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Even sometimes just the mention of where you are from can instantly change someone's value of your opinion. As someone from Kentucky in a scientific field, it is astounding how all respect gets thrown out the window in favor of making fun of where I am from badly veiled as light humor
I think the funniest possible thing to do in a low stakes situation when someone subtly insults you is to ask them to elaborate.
In Seattle I was explaining environmental DNA and a woman said it “tickled” her to hear someone with my accent (rural Appalachia) “talk about science.”
So I said, “oh! 🙂 What an interesting perspective. Can you tell me more about what you mean?”
As you can imagine it went badly for her very quickly.
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Writing Tips Pt. 9 - Accents
Here's a more specific one that can really make or break a story: spoken accents.
You've probably all seen it happen in fiction. A character comes from a locale with a thick accent, and the author feels they have to represent it as faithfully as possible, leading to virtually incomprehensible dialogue.
"Ah dinnae ken what ta tell ye, lassie, but the wee scunner'll do ye dirty if ye don' take a firm hand ta him!"
"Sacre bleu, but zis is zimply unnacceptable! We cannot be having ze Rocheforts and ze Garniers zitting in ze zame room or zey will be tearing ze place apart!"
Absolutely awful attempts to render stereotypical accents aside, the above lines aren't very legible thanks to the deliberate mispellings in my attempt to convey sound. And for what gain? How easy is it to tell that the first is an attempt at Scottish, or the second at French?
Best to leave out the bulk of it. Use idioms, turns of phrase, or the general rhythm and structure of the words to convey the accent without leaning so heavily into sound changes. This way, you'll be less likely to shake your reader out of the story because they're too busy trying to puzzle out what someone is saying.
So let's try that again:
"I don't know what to tell you, lassie, but the wee scunner'll do you dirty if you don't take a firm hand to him!"
"Sacre bleu, but this is simply unacceptable! We cannot be having the Rocheforts and the Garniers sitting in the same room or they will be tearing the place apart!"
I left alone a few words that don't have a direct English replacement that keeps the same feel (lassie, wee scunner, sacre bleu), along with one phrase (do you dirty) and the general grammar structure of the second example, but all the stereotypical sounds have been removed. Much easier to read, and yet the general idea of the accent is still there.
By way of personal example, when I was younger, I wrote a story with a character with a very heavy accent that was supposed to be something...I don't know, thick American South?
"Mah name is Daphne. Ah'm a seer. Are ya deaf er somethin'? Ah s'pose ya nevah 'eard of da seers before? Waell, ya 'ave now. I must be 'least tree-undred years old er somethin'. Come in, Ah've been 'spectin' ya. Now, 'ave a seat. Right dere on dat box. Ah don't 'ave much in da furn'ture d'partment. Ya ain't from 'round here, are ya?”
An entire chapter with one character speaking like that. Oof. There were even points where she had to repeat herself and try to enunciate to make it clearer what she was saying to the other characters.
This is not good writing.
So here's an attempt to clean it up while keeping the idea of the accent.
"My name is Daphne. I'm a seer. Are you deaf or somethin'? I suppose you never heard of the seers before? Well, you have now. I must be least three hundred years old or somethin'. Come in, I've been expecting you. Now have a seat, right there on that box. I don't have much in the furniture department. You ain't from around here, are you?"
Much easier to read, and should still get the idea across.
Of course, you can ignore all of this if the incomprehensible accent is part of a joke.
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Not in my country but gourd rhymes with gaud, so you're now a pumpkin, you'll make a delicious pie
I don't think it's a coincidence that "God" and "gaud" rhyme
actually they’re homophones
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I have to admire Monet’s commitment to her American vs British accent theory. I was amused and confused.
PLEASE reblog, I have heard it on a couple of podcasts now and I'm genuinely curious how common it is! Also, if you feel comfortable with it, let me know what your accent normally is (Midwestern, Southern, New Englander, New Yorker, Minnesotan, whatever).