The only diffrence I’ve noticed is that alot of the Zandalari voice actors have a more distinct, stereotypical african accent, while the Darkspear is more Jamacian. But they still use the same troll words like mon and other things.
Darkspear sounds like they straight out of a pirates of the carribean movie, while the Zandalari is Who killed captain Alex, mixed in with Black Panther.
Zandalari more combine mon with things than using it alone, like Fishermon, Richmon, etc.
Perhaps things like elfmon, priestmon, axemon and other things with it
AND I AM WOLFMON!
I think this might be indicative of a change overall for trolls that blizzard are trying to get away from. Maybe I’m mis-reading it myself, but in the old soldier cinematic it feels like the accent there is closer to the zandalari ones. Similarly to how the new nelf voices with Delaryn in the pre-release for BFA and Shandris’ voice lines seem to be more English sounding than previous NPCs.
So either with BFA they’re trying to re-design the voices of established races, or they’re just adding some variation. Hard to tell which it actually is.
Like you say, could be either way, but if it is a honest choice for variation, it is a quite neat one. Since the Zandalari are the “pure/true” trolls, to have them have a more african accents, and then have things like the darkspear/jungle trolls a more Jamacian variation, it shows how there are smilliarities, yet diffrences between the race which has developed over the years.
But it can also be what you say and just an attempt at retcon. Im hoping its not.
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FALSE TRIGGER ALERT
Just clicked on the first random Zandalari NPC in front of me (Nokali the Scarred, next to the Flight Master @Horde docks). A few clicks later:
‘Ello mon’
Another theory debunked.
Well rip then.
ZANDALAR FOREVAH
But who killed Captain Alex!?!? serious shocked stare
So, the Kul Tiran don’t want vengeance for Daelin against horde? Like Rexxar, Rokhan and chen, with Carine being dead
Where’d you get that idea? The only reason they hadn’t done it before is because they lacked the manpower.
No no, I mean right now, not before
That now do they want to pursue them, and i mostly mean Chen who is nowhere
In the Horde war campaign you fight a dude in a tank who’s gunning for rexxar for this exact reason???
That’s fair 
I didn’t know
Though i am still thinking about Chen
The fact that most threads that arent recruitment threads dissolve into bickering between the same number of individuals who can’t seem to control themselves with little to know regard of the thread in question 
Ah, but its so fun to sit back and watch!
To me it kinda kills any interest I had in the thread. To each their own but ![:man_shrugging:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/man_shrugging.png?v=6" ":man_shrugging:")
Well for me, it helps maintain my trust level 3 as well as being mildly amusing to read between dungeon spam.
But being fair, this thread in particular has had all its answers already.
The lower class a Zandalari is, the less refined their speech is. Hence why Talanji and Rastakhan spoke essentially perfectly aside from their Troll affectations (dey etc), but lower caste trolls in the docks are lazier with their speech.
Gameplay peeve; starting playing Bloodborne again has made me realise, 1) how much I love customising characters in an RPG, 2) how WoW is barely worthy of being called an RPG.
Leaving aside the whole other kettle of fish that is appearances (mog restrictions, overly busy armour design, MASSIVE issue with lack of model customisation, STILL) there’s no meaningful mechanical difference between a Human Paladin and a Tauren Paladin, a mace user and a sword user, two of X spec are identical bar a handful of talents…
It’s boring. It’s dull. It’s unrewarding. It’s also entirely possible to have a different system in an MMO. But, of course, bland homogenisation is ‘easier’, so we get stuck with that. Forever and ever and ever…
Shouldn’t be, but spells should DEFINATELY look a lot different, also no shoehorning.
I’d be fine with all races can be all classes if they looked extremely different, have gnome/goblin druids use mechs instead of shapeshift, tinkers!