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Nonstandard spelling to evoke mispronunciation, etc.
Huck Finn was written by Mark Twain (yes, that's a pen name, but that's got nothing to do with this) using nonstandard grammar consistently throughout, to evoke more clearly the first-person image of an undereducated writer, the teen title character. The book got a LOT of negative criticism in its time for this.
Today, we have 'standard nonstandard' usages, including but not limited to the Scottish accent preferred by @Faur, the dentalised lisp I keep getting into trouble for (Some words, dey hard to say wif my mouf.)* and of course, things like Jaeger-speak.
Here's a recent panel of a webcomic that illustrates that one:
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I'm tired of relying on people telling me privately, 'This is good!' or 'This is bad, we don't want it here.' Both of those are valid views, my problem is that I don't know which one speaks for most of us.
This poll is anonymous.
*I keep getting pressured into not using it. Sometimes I cave.
Today, we have 'standard nonstandard' usages, including but not limited to the Scottish accent preferred by @Faur, the dentalised lisp I keep getting into trouble for (Some words, dey hard to say wif my mouf.)* and of course, things like Jaeger-speak.
Here's a recent panel of a webcomic that illustrates that one:
.I'm tired of relying on people telling me privately, 'This is good!' or 'This is bad, we don't want it here.' Both of those are valid views, my problem is that I don't know which one speaks for most of us.
This poll is anonymous.
*I keep getting pressured into not using it. Sometimes I cave.
Some words, dey hard to say wif my mouf.
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And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
"I just wanted to see how everyone else voted."
Channels are telepathic. What are you, having a stroke?
I literally want to strangle those people.
And you won't understand the cause of your grief...
...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
If you just want to talk about accents, though, I have a twofold issue with them.
The first is that accents are a perfectly acceptable way to convey these changes without spelling everything out phonetically. Obviously it gets a bit tricky, because you can't just set your accent to 'Cockney,' but there's enough leeway to make it a useful tool.
The other issue I have is consistency. Accents audible over telepathic channels are odd, and people definitely drop the accent in high stress situations and such. Not that it's a huge deal, but nothing builds character like consistency; if you slip in and out of the phonetic style writing, then you just come off as wanting attention, for the most part. An accent does not an interesting person make.
Physical problems like lisps and stuttering might be weird, though.
'Some words, dey hard to say wif my mouf': Fine, whatever.
'Y'guild willnae support y'actions lest y'slip an' find y'self suddenly in over y'head.' : Fuck you, get out.
90% of the time, type how you want to sound.
The other 10% becomes an issue when I have trouble, as a player, comprehending what you're trying to say because you're using SO MUCH nonstandard stuff. Nazihk hit on this a bit a couple posts above me, but if it is practically illegible to me as a player, I'm going to be a bit annoyed.
Also with Krypton; people who stutter over market / tells / HT etc, I want to kill them over and over again.
Even more annoying are the ones who can't actually consistently do whatever they're supposedly RPing, and jump between having an accent, and suddenly talking normally.
On behalf of anyone using screenreaders or text to speech in Achaea, kindly fuck off with this nonsense. Kthxbai.
But yeah, it's getting old.
You say with, "*a *dentalised *lisp hmm."
Meanwhile, I saw a newbie channel comment about city accents, and how while SET ACCENT MHALDORIAN is not only possible, but done, there's no real communication of what that sounds like. This is easy to fix. All we need is something like HELP CITYACCENTS to give some general guidelines. It's about the same importance as having scrolls on the various races as guidelines for people to use when creating their personal descriptions, and we have those.
There's been forum discussions on that, and that's not really the topic of this post, but it's sort of relevant, so thank you for making me think of it.
Your statement would be completely true if SET LISP were a thing, even as an alternative to voice or accent. A way to have a voice or accent *and* a lisp, would be ideal. But I figure it's less work for them to make it an option alongside voice and accent, than something independent of that.
EDIT: Sibilant might not be exactly what youre looking for, but comes close. A lisping voice isnt the best flow for it, but works to get fhe point across.
EDIT2: Could have LISP as a speech command alongside all the rest.