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

From: Paul Anderson <carlalef_at_...>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:43:43 -0400

There's a nice red-rose myth sketched out by Fr, Rolfe (who wrote Hadrian VII) which links the bloody rose of Lancashire with the Lancashire mills. I forget the details.

Paul MacLean Anderson
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> > 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.
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>I'd happily believe you, but I'm sorry, any Kallyr stories I write will
>not have any Lancashire accents, because I simply can't write one in a
>convincing manner (or even in an unconvincing manner). I'll see if I can
>get some red roses into Kheldon legends for you, if that would help.
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