Accents (was [HeroQuest-RPG] Re: literacy)

From: Stewart Stansfield <stu_stansfield_at_...>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:18:58 -0000


> > Is there a hitherto unsuspected Volsaxi vs Durulz football
> > challenge waiting to be discovered somewhere in the lore?
>
> We'll have to pass the idea over to the Whitewall list and see what
> happens. (Ccing). We have Volsaxi, we have Durulz, we have a lot of
> bored people stuck in a city with not enough to keep them amused.

For some reason, IMG I've always personally imagined Volsaxi as having long moustaches (a bit like the Vercingetorixesque Broyan miniature from the Lance & Laser set).

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/archive/display.var.169615.0.bristl ing_with_talent.php

So big 'tached, shaggy haired Volsaxings called Barry playing footie and enjoying a half-time Super/Party-7 and flying magically home on an Elmalian (Talbot) Sunbeam in a grim, washed-out '70s vista suits me just fine. Just leave the Brotherhood of Man.

I'm thinking the ducks are more Socrates-era Brazil than Graeme Souness, meself. But your footie ducks may vary. Or perhaps Nobby Stiles, Gordon Strachan, Archie Gemmill and Peter Reid style 'small but nimble/psychotic and not afraid to put the flipper in' players. Used to wet pitches anyway... probably exponents of the long ball game, even though they're not so big up front. Italian centrebacks haven't a hope in matching them for shirt grabbing and jostling.

> I'd thought accent-placement shoud be determined by the phrase "In
> Oopland Marsh baht'at". But Volsaxi - Broyan, as played by Brian
> Blessed, but with a Yorkshire accent - you know, it works.

I just like to correct one slight error on the part of our dear Southern colleagues, with especial view to the common association of 'Northern' English accents to the more benighted and barbaric elements of Dragon Pass. There are other such accents than the Yorkshire lilt. And that's even before we get to 'Auf Wiedersehen, Kallyr'.

Only the cowering, occupied and collaborating Heortling peoples show any pretensions to Yorkshire accents. The free and brave peoples fighting the Moonie aggressors actually display a variety of thick Lancashire accents (apart from urban centres, which display various nasal inflections).

I mean, I know that we can't expect any better condescensions against the Northern Proletariat, but flipping 'eck, you'll be knocking the the way a bloke carries his pint, next...

Apop... Apahplek... Angry from Bolton.

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