> FWIW, I don't think Heortlander *sounds* anything like English.
Nor do I.
Over on the other list, I was only suggesting that regional accents (e.g. Yorkshire vs. Mummerset) were IMO a more fruitful analogy for the differences between the Theyalan "languages" (e.g. Tarshite vs. Sartarite) than (say) distinctly different languages from the same family (e.g. Spanish vs. French; more extremely, English vs. German).
*Especially* given HeroQuest's narrative drive to downplay linguistic difficulties.
(Note too that I was talking about accents rather than dialects).
> (Nick - any ideas?).
None whatsoever. That's not my specialism.
> As a West Coast American, none of those accents do it for me.
> Yorkshire, Lancashire or other Northern English dialects mean
> very little to me, other than they are pretty much unintelligible
> and inexplicable.
Yeah, you'd need your own local equivalents (if you were going to do anything serious with this), and I can't help with those.
This is partly about emotive associations, after all. "Trollpak" (1st ed.) had a brief discussion of accents GMs could use for Uz NPCs -- Chicago Gangsters or Germans were suggested, IIRC (in the "Into Uzdom" book). Don't read too much into it.
Cheers, Nick
PS: complete agreement re: the Volsaxi droopy moustaches!
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