BubbleSauce wrote...
Come to think of it, it does sound a little bit like an Irish Gaeilc name. God I really want more turians with selective accents, an Irish Turian, a British Turian, an Australian Turian. God that would be brilliant.
There seems to be very few charcters in mass effect that aren't american, it's kind of weird. There was one (terribly voiced) frenchman in the colonist mission, and then there's miranda who I think is Australian. I don't think there's a single british character in the game, (apart for big ben sniper) nor are there any asian characters, and there's more Asians than there are Americans on the planet!
Other than that I can't think of any others off the top of my head. Even the Aliens are American... I want ethnic turians...
The thing you have to remember about the aliens, at least, is that there's a high probability you're hearing their voices through translators. So it would make no sense at all for them to have accents (because why would you give an accent to a translator?)
On the other hand, some quarians, like Tali, clearly do have an accent. My theory is that, in those cases, they're quarians who have actually bothered learning English. Since they're a nomadic people, they're also the one species for whom it makes sense to learn foreign languages, as they're bound to interact with a lot of other species during their Pilgrimage. Hence, you're hearing their actual voices, not translators. But the quarians that speak with no accent (Kal'Reegar, Daro'Xen, Han'Gerrel, etc.), those you're hearing through translators.
Of course, this also opens up a whole new can of worms in the form of "how can a translator still pick up the character's voice pitch, while translating the words?" My only answer so far: futuristic technology.
As for the humans who all speak American English, the explanation would be that English in general, and American English in particular, is the Human
lingua franca in the future. It kinda already is today: most people I know who learn English as a foreign language pick up the American pronunciation by default. From personal experience, most of my teachers have been American, but I have a tendency to switch accents depending on who I'm talking to: if they're American, I'll switch to American pronunciation, if they're British, I'll switch to British. If I spend enough time around an Irishman or an Australian, for example, I will also start picking up their pronunciation. It's possible that other people do that too.
That being said, there are several ME characters with accents: Chloe Michel on the Citadel has a French accent, Yaroslev Tartakovsky (although they misspelled his first name) on Noveria has a Russian one, Samesh Bhatia on the Citadel has a Hindu or Pakistani one, Kasumi has a Japanese one. And if we're looking for varieties of English accents, then there's Miranda's Australian, as has been mentioned, and Donovan Hock's South African. I'm sure there are other examples, but those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
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