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[duckley]

Excuse me - which voice has the accent?

[Coyote X Starrk]

This thread could not have gone better lol 

[DarkAmaranth1966]

Eh, y'all done yappin' aboot accents are ye now, yeah? (And no I can't change accents that fast speaking aloud LOL)

[drummerchick]

Born in the South, went to school in PA, lived in New England, the Midwest, and Southern CA. I don't have an accent. I have ALL the accents!  

On topic: I did use the American voice for all but one male pc. I gave him a thin, somewhat crooked nose so the nasaly British accent fit.

[Coyote X Starrk]

I feel like British guy would be good for a Rogue, but I have gotten so used to the American one by now that it just sounds wrong to see my Inquisitor sound any other way 

[aphelion4]

The only people who say "aboot" are Americans impersonating what they think is the Canadian accent.

 

Canadians pronounce it "abowt," similarly to when you "bow" before a King (though not exactly the same.)

 

Have you ever been to Newfoundland/Labrador or eastern Canada? A good number of them do in fact have the stereotypical Canadian accent you see on fishing shows. It's adorable. :>

 

I stayed with my in laws for 2 weeks and I couldn't understand a word they said.

[Hal-Jordan]

My Non-Accented Trevelyan was a bro. He was intimidating as hell! Shaved head, tattoos and scars all over his face, a two-handed Reaver. I think if he sounded like John Cleese over there Corypheus would've burst into laughter when they met.

[(Disgusted noise.)]

I like both male VAs and I've use both of their voices for multiple characters, both human and non human.

 

It's the American female voice I can't get with.

[PhroXenGold]

My Non-Accented Trevelyan was a bro. He was intimidating as hell! Shaved head, tattoos and scars all over his face, a two-handed Reaver. I think if he sounded like John Cleese over there Corypheus would've burst into laughter when they met.

 

But the one with no accent is the one that sounds John Cleese....

[Retro-bit]

On the subject of accents, I wish we had a proper one for a Dalish Inquisitor. Bioware have tried to make sure all the Dalish in DA2 and DA:I have Celtic accents, but the Inquisitor can't have one....

 

And that has always bugged me playing DAI Dalish, especially when travelling with an elven companion I'd always wish my Inquisitor had a soft welsh accent too but I got over it soon enough.

If we could mod DAI Voices I would absolutely do my own voice over for fem Dalish haha, I'm Welsh. Yeah I have no life

[Sifr]

 

The only English speakers that can claim to have no accent are those in England, since that's where the "modern" English language originates from

 

Yep, we might have regional dialects in England, but since we came up with the lingo, all our dialects can be considered equally valid as each other?

 

Technically, it's everyone else  on the planet that happens to be speaking the language with an accent...

 

(But we don't mind, just as long as you all stay away from our bowler hats and silly walks!)

 

[Spiratic]

There is one part of Canada that has the wildest accent in the world.

 

Newfoundland. A thick Newfie accent is like someone threw Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, and sleep deprivation into a blender.

Newfoundland has that accent because it was settled primarily by Irish (Gaelic), Scottish (Gaelic-English blend), and Welsh lol.

Nova Scotia has a watered down Gaelic accent (though stronger on Cape Breton), and New Brunswick has a weird Gaelic/French mix lol. 

 

(My families from the East Coast, I don't think they ever stepped foot outside Nova Scotia/Newfoundland until a month or so before my dad was born.)

 

Though technically there is an American accent specifically designed to have "no accent". I think it's referred to as there "television" accent. They specifically train actors, and some national news personalities, to speak in a general tone with little to no accent. They do this for mass appeal, as studies show that people are more distrustful and less entertained by people with accents differing from their own (especially in the USA). 

On topic, I only really use the American accent on dwarves or Qunari.
 

[Farangbaa]

Everyone has an accent, people. Even the guys on and gals on the news. That 'accentless' speach they use is just an accent that is not the same as the real, spoken accents in the country. But it's still an accent.

[berelinde]

Since all four voice actors were, in fact, human, I'd say that all four voices work well for humans. As for what elves, dwarves, and qunari sound like, it kinda depends on your take on the various races. I use the British voice for elves (and humans) and the American voice for dwarves and qunari not because I dislike any of the voices but out of habit. After the first two games, we've come to expect British-sounding voices for characters from Ferelden and the Free Marches and American voices for dwarves and qunari, so I go with that.

 

It is a pity they couldn't get the pitch modulation to work. I would have appreciated the ability to deepen the British voices.

[pdusen]

The only people who say "aboot" are Americans impersonating what they think is the Canadian accent.

 

Canadians pronounce it "abowt," similarly to when you "bow" before a King (though not exactly the same.)

 

No, it's a stereotype, but some canadians do say "aboot".

 

Heck, I've seen it on Canadian TV.

[Nefla]

If you speak with a made up accent or a random mishmash of other real accents, do you have an accent, or are you just a weirdo?

[frankf43]

If you speak with a made up accent or a random mishmash of other real accents, do you have an accent, or are you just a weirdo?

 

Are the two mutually exclusive? Do weirdo's have to not have accents?

[NextGenCowboy]

If you speak with a made up accent or a random mishmash of other real accents, do you have an accent, or are you just a weirdo?

That's affectation, which I brought up in my previous posts. Even the English who helped develop the english language from middle-english to modern-english were affecting accents. Every bit of spoken english will have some form of accent, because the language isn't a straight line. It's about 55% romance, and about 15% germanic, while still technically being a germanic/finnish language.

 

In the U.S. there are 2 regional ways of speaking that are considered to have the lightest accent in the country -- General American

 

http://en.wikipedia....eneral_American

 

and the Northwestern New England accent (Vermont accent).

 

http://en.wikipedia....ern_New_England

 

Both of those, though considered not to be heavily accented (in terms of American English/English in general) both have specific ways to say words (the aforementioed wadder, in place of water in Vermont, for example).

 

That said, even those speaking British English have accents, and not just in terms of the English spoken having developed differently over the last 300 years, but because English itself developed from multiple sources over the thousand years prior to that. Languages without accents would be root languages, without loan words, starting, and finishing along a straight line, and even within you'd have dialects.

 

http://en.wikipedia..../Proto-language

 

So, yes, there are two distinct accents at play, there's an English accent, and there's a General American accent.

[LPain]

That's affectation, which I brought up in my previous posts. Even the English who helped develop the english language from middle-english to modern-english were affecting accents. Every bit of spoken english will have some form of accent, because the language isn't a straight line. It's about 55% romance, and about 15% germanic, while still technically being a germanic/finnish language.

 

I do not generally write anything serious material in forum for a simple reason of that it usually makes me upset ( I generally BS my way through life), but I do have to specify on this statement. English language and Finnish language are not both part of Germanic linguistic subgroup, as Finnish is part of Finno-Ugrian language group. Scandiavian languages however are part of Germanic branch i.e. related to the old English (i.e. Swedish, Norweigean and Danish). Thus it would not be exact to say that "while still technically being a germanic/finnish language." as Finnish is not related to the old English origins at all.

[They call me a SpaceCowboy]

The British VA sounds  a bit like he's confused at everything others say.

[Nefla]

That's affectation, which I brought up in my previous posts. Even the English who helped develop the english language from middle-english to modern-english were affecting accents. Every bit of spoken english will have some form of accent, because the language isn't a straight line. It's about 55% romance, and about 15% germanic, while still technically being a germanic/finnish language.

 

In the U.S. there are 2 regional ways of speaking that are considered to have the lightest accent in the country -- General American

 

http://en.wikipedia....eneral_American

 

and the Northwestern New England accent (Vermont accent).

 

http://en.wikipedia....ern_New_England

 

Both of those, though considered not to be heavily accented (in terms of American English/English in general) both have specific ways to say words (the aforementioed wadder, in place of water in Vermont, for example).

 

That said, even those speaking British English have accents, and not just in terms of the English spoken having developed differently over the last 300 years, but because English itself developed from multiple sources over the thousand years prior to that. Languages without accents would be root languages, without loan words, starting, and finishing along a straight line, and even within you'd have dialects.

 

http://en.wikipedia..../Proto-language

 

So, yes, there are two distinct accents at play, there's an English accent, and there's a General American accent.

That was a joke.

[NextGenCowboy]

I got that. There is a word for it though. The rest of my tanget was something I was going to say anyway, should have broken it up better which is my fault. The only part that was a response to your joke was "That's affectation". My bad on that one.

 

Also, in response to Finish, that's supposed to be Frisian. I have no clue why I wrote Finnish, and even less why I wrote it twice, both here, and in my last post, other than the fact that I've either lost my mind, or am just an idiot.

 

Lastly, that's the final time I'll be anywhere near serious in this thread, I promise.

[LPain]

NextGenCowboy: All good!

 
About the VA:s. I find it amusing and simultaneously mortifying when Inquisitor starts yelling all of the sudden mid-sentence. I end up always suspecting possession or other body invasions. It is obviously intentional since both actors do it.

Spoiler

Like in Redcliffe: Where the Inquisitor starts belting "I want you to be allies of the Inquisition" or something similar, when Fiona is standing right next to you. Always leaves me incredibly embarrassed

 

Just makes me want to go:

[NextGenCowboy]

In those situations, always assume Temporary Possession by a Rage Demon. It may not hold up in a court of law, but it will make your Inquis feel better about themselves.

[pdusen]

I do not generally write anything serious material in forum for a simple reason of that it usually makes me upset ( I generally BS my way through life), but I do have to specify on this statement. English language and Finnish language are not both part of Germanic linguistic subgroup, as Finnish is part of Finno-Ugrian language group. Scandiavian languages however are part of Germanic branch i.e. related to the old English (i.e. Swedish, Norweigean and Danish). Thus it would not be exact to say that "while still technically being a germanic/finnish language." as Finnish is not related to the old English origins at all.

 

Also, English is not "55% romance". It's true that English has a lot of loan words from Norman Romance and Latin, but English takes loan words from everywhere. It's still genetically a completely germanic language.