What are some languages and accents you'd like to see in game?

[ghostymudy]

aid luv tuh see thuh en zud aksunt un gaem

nuthun karaktuhraizus betuh thun ledjubal aksuntz

Yis, I virry gid iccint.

[Marauder Moe]

What if someone wanted to play a character that was actually unintelligible?

[Patuk]

What if someone wanted to play a character that was actually unintelligible?

>em produces a series of unintelligible sounds.

Profit.

[Marauder Moe]

Well not absolutely unintelligible, but like less-than-optimally-intelligible?  Like, say, Boomhower from King of the Hill, Ozzy Osborne, or anyone from Glasgow.

[Patuk]

Well not absolutely unintelligible, but like less-than-optimally-intelligible?  Like, say, Boomhower from King of the Hill, Ozzy Osborne, or anyone from Glasgow.

Daintily holding his long clay mug by the handle and taking a sip from it while spewing forth words in a nigh-unintelligible northen drawl, the northie in the Gaj says, in northern-accented sirihish,
       "I thought I'd asked directions to find the local tavern, not the rathole."

[Morrolan]

What if someone wanted to play a character that was actually unintelligible?

My previous post (suggesting that part of language comprehension be coded for accent) Plus the ability to >change accentthickness 1-10.

[FantasyWriter]

What if someone wanted to play a character that was actually unintelligible?

I spec apped a PC once that had some physical mutations that made speech very hard for him.
Nessalin (I think he was the one who set me up) couldn't make him not have a coded accent even when he lowered my accent skill to zero. I just threw in some random letters to try and make it look like someone speaking a language you barely understand.... with a northern accent.

[Tuannon]

I have cheated on Arm recently to try another mud. They let you set your own accent on it so like you could always 'gruffly intones', or whatnot thought it was a cool feature.

A douche-bag says, in a subsonic rumbling bass-like tone, "Hi this was an actual voice string from an actual srs RPI mud that wolfsong saw and raged at lol."

Oh well, there goes my idea for apping a templar that talks like Soundwave.

[Lizzie]

How to Present Unintelligible Speech, by Teh Lizzeh:

1. Spend some time going over logs of you listening to other characters speaking in their native languages, which your characters didn't understand yet.
1a. If you don't have logs, or if you've never encountered this phenomenon, start doing so. Each language has certain attributes that are recognizeable to those who don't understand. A *hypothetical* example: Mirrukim uses lots of g's and k's. Allundean uses a lot of t's and s's (I do NOT know which letters are most commonly used, I have it in a log somewhere and I don't feel like looking it up. But certain attributes do exist).

2. Start thinking of examples of the sounds you want to make, based on 1 and 1a.

3. Make sure those examples are pronounceable, even if unintelligible. For instance:

"Mgkhftch" is not a pronounceable jumble of letters. However...

"Migakhefitch" is.

4. Come up with letter combinations that you can use consistently. Such as "m'lechi" to represent your version of "this guy," "that person," or any variety thereof.

5. Make sure that -your- character knows what he's saying, even if no one else does. You can use thinks to express that knowledge.