“Och! ay’ dannae wah’ che’ boot! laddie! Och’!”
A lhazy axxent addon zat uzed lethther zubzituthion ahlgorithhms tu ahrifiziahlhly ckherenge yur tekherxt.
Same with how some now insist trolls pronounce “little” as likkle.
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Is it alien I can understand about 86% if this?
Aboot’ five o’clook in tha’ afternoon lass! 
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“Speaks in a dwarven accent”
In my TRP profile.
Use -dialect- words, not insane word clipping.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/960623429344690233/979153897111302194/unknown.png
Avoid this.
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My little play on the subject is I’ve always tried to separate the ‘Common’ with the ‘Dwarvish’ as best I could, as in when speaking Dwarvish I’d try to loose the accent and speak regularly as it’s their mother tongue (failing miserably sometimes as it’s just too darn fun to use the ‘ let’s be honest haha) Whereas if I’m speaking with more than just Dwarves I implemented the accent in Common.
But you do you, like what’s been said a lot here - it’s down to you and what you think fits your character!
Always good to see folks role a stunty.
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Thats a terrible accent, I can understand what they are saying, defeats the purpose 
Despite the noteriety of my Dread-Pirate-forsaken-captain (hello, Yorold here 
), I always struggled with using or attempting pirate accents, and got confused when other pirates used london slum accents.
I tended to just draw on my own sailor experience and leaned into nautical slang heavily. Especially when cursing or insulting. That way the words eluded to an accent.
“by Neptulons barnacled buttocks!! Your a fathom short of a puddle, ain’t you shipmate?”
Still never felt like I got it right though.
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My personal preference?
To write in regular English, and emote out 'Speaks with a accent (If they speak in Common).
First not everyone is a native English speaker.
To complicate things for them by eating letters, adding twists and turns to the writing for the sake of emulating via writing the sounds can potentially make it harder for the not too proficient in English roleplayer to … interact with you.
Some RL cities were mentioned, tbh I’d not even know what’s the difference between the accent of this or that place, if they belong to a foreign country.
On the other hand I may have my own idea of how Westfall accent is, or Stormwind accent is.
I’d just not seek to match a real location to an in-game ‘accent’.
The most I’ll probably do with my dwarf’s accent is leave off a few g’s and use words like ‘aye’ and so on without making things incomprehensible. My troll speaks Orcish and Common without a thick accent since she has had to lead a diverse group of soldiers into battle and took pains to make herself easy to understand by everyone in the Horde.
I think people assume Trolls speak with a thick Jamaican patois and will toss in all sorts of mangled terms and phrases that are never used in-game to sound… authentic? It comes across as very cheesy and half the time sounds more like a minstrel show than anything realistic.
I say go nuts with accents -as long as it is understandable-. I s2g. I absolutely cannot stand the tongues addon warping Draenei accents. It’s hard to read and dumb.
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With all that out of the way, the real question is, where did “Och” for dwarves come from anyway?
I was gonna suggest it comes from the Scottish trope(?), since most Dwarves have something close to that accent. Then I remembered one of the click-responses for the Dwarven unit in WC2 is “Och!?”.
Admittedly that’s probably still a Scottish trope(?), but it also confirms that to be a thing some Dwarves say?
RPing accents comes down to the individual.
Personally I type out words fully with my TRP stating my accent, I’d rather not risk someone having zero clue what i just typed out.
But, if you’d rather type it out. I’d suggest maybe just saying the sentences out loud with the accent you want.
It’s exactly what you’d expect; Scottish argot that can mean general disapproval, frustration, or sometimes agreement (“och aye”).
Anyway this is my favourite Scottish accent breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQafwx3h7A
Vhat duu yuu mean Vaxirr? Du yuu nut like this vuice?
I used to like you
That genuinely hurt both my eyes and my mind trying to suss out what was being said.
However, I agree entirely with using dialect words rather than typing out an entire accent! It adds flavour and can be a lot more fun than having people try to decipher what it is your saying. Nothing hurts my soul more than watching people, especially Worgen roleplayers type in that god-awful “cockney” londoner accent because Blizzard believes that’s how all english folk and londoners speak - and I can tell you it’s not! It’s painful to read out loud and listen too.
I had a character once who spoke with a Yorkshire accent as that’s where I originate, this was me simply using dialect words from the area that people might not be familiar with, but at least they could -read- what I was saying and it wasn’t complete rubbish. All it took was a lil’ IC explanation. It’s all about imagination and flavour without it coming across as ineligible.
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My roleplay character comes from Northshire, but talks the “southern” accent Westfall because of her parents that come from Westfall talking with that “southern” accent. So, it can the accents can be because of the envoirment they grew up in, maybe Eberardus grew up where people spoke different than what the usual dwarf speaks.
Just an idea.
But I don’t know your character.
Maybe influenced by the people around him that made him hit a different tone of accent when he grew up?
Many of the npcs in Westfall talks with that southern farmer accent anyway if you’ve seen that.
I dare OP to use doric.