(07-24-2013, 08:18 PM)Teardrop Wrote: I think its easy to forget that an accent can develop that distinguishes different regions within the same language. Â It doesn't have to be necessarily a derivative of an ancient foreign language, it can be regional accents, dialect, etc of the same language, in this case, Eorzean. Â Regional accents and dialects occur in a wide variety of countries within the same native tongue, not developed by foreign migration or non-native speakers, but through simply being in a different location in the country, and I don't think it would be a stretch of the imagination to think the same thing could not occur within Eorzea. Â Not sure running into people with accents in Eorzea would be such an improbability...I know I run into it all the time during my travels through the States with native English-speakersTrue.. Â We may speak English, but we definitely don't all speak it the same
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Compared to a bastard half-whatever orphan raised by adoptive parents outside their race, honestly, someone wanting their character to have an accent is really the easiest thing for me to swallow readily regarding one's background story...not sure it would ever bother me to run into one.
But do we know what the regional dialects are?
I mean, it's not a bad idea, but here's the scenario I've run into in the past with roleplayers using that explanation for a unique accent: They end up being from a region that my character is from, but I'm not representing any sort of regional accent in my roleplay and/or I and my character don't recognize the accent from interactions with other PCs/NPCs from that region.
So the issue, really, is establishing a standard. Are there any in FFXIV?
(I mean, aside from Limsa's "pirate" accent, anyway...)
