(01-10-2017, 04:16 PM)Kilieit Wrote:(01-10-2017, 03:26 PM)Virella Wrote:(01-10-2017, 03:16 PM)Kilieit Wrote: Extremely small contribution:Uuuh. Not to start a completely OT discussion here, but my ex is from Leeds and he was in stitches over Raubahn's VA for it trying to sound like a 'random northern' accent.
Raubahn's 3.0 accent is from Yorkshire, not Scotland! Faintly so (probably just because the voice actor is effecting the accent rather than having it naturally), but nonetheless.
*src: mum is from Yorkshire, lol
I agree, it's not Scottish, but it's also not something from up Yorkshire. It is just a voice actor trying to sound like a very generic northern British bloke and failing miserably at it according to a lot of UK/Scots/Irish folk
Honestly... I wasn't impressed with the accent either. xD It's obviously a southerner's attempt, and his vowel shapes in particular fall short in most sentences, if not all.
I think they think Yorkshire's an easy "northern" one for them to try because, like... Emmerdale is a thing. LOL. Other "northern England" accents aren't quite as popularised, I don't think.
It makes it even harder to incorporate Raubahn (and Ilberd's) accents into clues about Highlander/Ala Mhigan society.
Yeah, my dad's side of the family is from the UK (Merseyside, to be exact), and neither of us could figure out what the hell his accent was supposed to be, so we just had a laugh about it for a few minutes.
It makes sense that they'd go for a generic 'northern' accent, but man, it's kinda hilarious.
Quote:Then again I've seen people headcanon that Ala Mhigan speak Dutch
I met a guy once who insisted that Highlanders were Slavic. I am still not quite sure where he got that from.
