(01-10-2017, 04:16 PM)Kilieit Wrote:If only they would give us more lore, or real life references for dialect/accents/languages in Eorzea!(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.
Then again I've seen people headcanon that Ala Mhigan speak Dutch :l Not German, but Dutch. Being Dutch myself? Nooooo thanks on that one. (Dutch is an ugly language without any charm to it to begin with)
