I have two characters who were not raised speaking Eorzean.
Both have the Echo, but only one has the language comprehension component of it. (I understand the only Echo power that every single Echo user gets is the tempering immunity.)
Aghurlal only knows Eorzean through the Echo. He picked up phrases before he made the trip, but since landing he's relied on his Echo almost entirely to get by day-to-day. It brings his speech its own quirks... he's naturally inclined to do this anyway, but it helps him copy the speech mannerisms of the people around him. His accent changes based on his present company, but with no clear pattern it just cuts to "received pronunciation". His vocabulary choices are not his own - he doesn't tend to make puns or understand wordplay. He speaks with words which most effectively communicate his meaning to the people he's speaking to. He cannot read or write Eorzean fluently.
Cinu-a does not have the language comprehension component. However, he's Malaguld, and has been exposed to odd end phrases of Eorzean since 15-20 years ago when the Raen recruits to his tribe first started bringing the language into contact with it ("Otter what are you on about--" Here). He's not much of a talker anyway, but I intend to portray his lack of grasp on the language through his misunderstanding of similar-sounding words and his habit of displaying the majority of his intent through his actions and not his speech. He'll be much more comfortable speaking Doman or Steppes languages.
Haven't roleplayed him publically yet... so we'll have to see how that goes, aha.
I'm not one for phoneticised accents, or for using IRL languages as real-time stand-ins for Eorzean ones. In fact, the latter is my pet peeve. Especially when most people I've seen doing this are blatantly using Google Translate to do it. Don't make me (or anyone else whose character can understand the language yours is meant to be speaking) whisper you just to understand WTF your character's on about. Just use (some) {sort} <of> [brackets] around plain English like the rest of us, or a quick [Doman] (or whatever) at the start of your sentence like we used to do in WoW.
Both have the Echo, but only one has the language comprehension component of it. (I understand the only Echo power that every single Echo user gets is the tempering immunity.)
Aghurlal only knows Eorzean through the Echo. He picked up phrases before he made the trip, but since landing he's relied on his Echo almost entirely to get by day-to-day. It brings his speech its own quirks... he's naturally inclined to do this anyway, but it helps him copy the speech mannerisms of the people around him. His accent changes based on his present company, but with no clear pattern it just cuts to "received pronunciation". His vocabulary choices are not his own - he doesn't tend to make puns or understand wordplay. He speaks with words which most effectively communicate his meaning to the people he's speaking to. He cannot read or write Eorzean fluently.
Cinu-a does not have the language comprehension component. However, he's Malaguld, and has been exposed to odd end phrases of Eorzean since 15-20 years ago when the Raen recruits to his tribe first started bringing the language into contact with it ("Otter what are you on about--" Here). He's not much of a talker anyway, but I intend to portray his lack of grasp on the language through his misunderstanding of similar-sounding words and his habit of displaying the majority of his intent through his actions and not his speech. He'll be much more comfortable speaking Doman or Steppes languages.
Haven't roleplayed him publically yet... so we'll have to see how that goes, aha.
I'm not one for phoneticised accents, or for using IRL languages as real-time stand-ins for Eorzean ones. In fact, the latter is my pet peeve. Especially when most people I've seen doing this are blatantly using Google Translate to do it. Don't make me (or anyone else whose character can understand the language yours is meant to be speaking) whisper you just to understand WTF your character's on about. Just use (some) {sort} <of> [brackets] around plain English like the rest of us, or a quick [Doman] (or whatever) at the start of your sentence like we used to do in WoW.
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