RPC has moved! These pages have been kept for historical purposes

Ilwe'ran · **02-15-2015, 02:34 PM**

(02-15-2015, 01:50 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: I am interested in this guide and have a couple of questions:

1. My native language is English and I am role-playing as a character who speaks with poor English skills. Often times, I am worried about offending people who speak it as a second language. I am not sure if I am being silly or not.

You won't offend anybody if your english looks poor ICly. People won't feel like you're doing that in purpose to "help them", particularly if your emotes are neat while the character's language is poor.
Though, if you feel uneasy or if you have the feeling that your RP partner is feeling uncomfortable, I encourage you to speak out OOC. Better saying a few words OOC and not being worried anymore than trying to deal with those feelings, they would ruin a bit your own pleasure Smile

.

Though, there is one thing a non native speaker might have some problems with : The accents. If your character as some sort of accent (pirate for example) and you know that the person in front of you isn't a native speaker, don't hesitate to offer them to "translate" the sentence in modern english for them to understand. An offer is always agreable, even more if the person is too shy themselves to ask.

(02-15-2015, 01:50 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: 2. I am also a slow responder to RP for different reasons. However, on occasion, I will make supplemental RP posts because I don't believe RP has to always be "you make one post now I make one post." A lot of these posts are often just to add flavor or I like to add on to what I last said to give the other player more content to respond off of.

Does this make other people nervous or feel rushed?

I often do that, making like.. 2 or 3 posts, even sometimes 4. When I know it's gonna be long, I do two things :
1. I tell to my partner that my answer will be long (you know, the 5mn golden rule).
2. I finish each post by a > or a --> (Thank you Carina for that, it's really smart) to announce there is something following.
If I'm not saying anything, I myself feel stressed and try to rush, I believe that if the person in front of me know it will be a bit long, they won't feel "abandonned" or feel like I went AFK without a word.
If you have the feeling that you're "slow" or your partner is impatient, you can simply tell them that you're there. There is no rule saying that you should give an answer every X mn, but sometimes it's better to just speak out. Native or not native, what is important is to be comfortable with your partner, if you think that it's important to precise that you're sometimes slow to answer, you can simply say it. As long as it makes you feel better, you should do it Wink

!

International RP - A communication guide (04.07)

RPC has moved! These pages have been kept for historical purposes