Go to Shetland or the Western Isles. There are more versions of our accent than Glasgow and Edinburgh.
People should watch Rab C Nesbitt to see how much they can understand.
Culture is one thing, accent is another.
Are blood elves American then? Or British? Do British people ride rainbow chicken in rainbow woods?
I know Draenei have some Indian elements in their culture, but the accent is not Indian.
Anyway, each wow race have more than one cultural inspiration. To give an example some of the night elf architecture are classical Greek, while others are Japanese lodges.
But accent on the other hand tends to be very specific.
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It was a very obvious connection for everyone back in Burning Crusade though. The whole Burning Crusade theme originally brought a lot of Oriental / Indian ambient to the game. It’s in the Draenei music, the traditional Oriental bazar concept and architecture for many locations across Outlands. The six armed Shivarra (name taken from Indian god Shiva most likely) first introduced. Crystals and incense sticks as a major feature of Draenei culture, which in real life are one of the most expensive goods often coming from India / the Orient. And let’s not forget… the infamous harem theme of Black Temple…
Their German accent definitely is. The English one sounds at least Balkan / Oriental to me.
I associated them more with oriental/arabic, but not specifically with Indian culture… But granted, the Makarena-Dance should have given it away.
Edit: But thanks for the heads-up on that. Now I at least know what culture I can take reference from when creating Draenei-related 3D stuff.
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I know.
I’m from Glasgow, I don’t live there…
But none of the real Scottish accent sound like anything in the game.
Listen to the way they say “aye”
It’s dragged out with extra vowels. And they put a syllable in it.
“Eiiuiie”
No one speaks like that anywhere in the world, never mind in Scotland.
That one’s a common impersonator trait, not just WoW voice actors.
Always the first thing I listen for when I hear a Scottish accent on screen.
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Imagine that, 2 diferent people can have 2 diferent experiences.
Imagine that one of them who isn’t me is wrong
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How much will you pay for said imagination?
The “ch” sound in Loch is very common in Arabic.
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Yeah but she might mean other Anglophones with the “non-Scots” comment. Try asking an Australian to pronounce the word and they might choke.
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It’s almost universally pronounced Lock by English, Aussies, yanks etc
And given a lot of non native English speakers pick up a good chunk of the language from tv etc, the tend to go with the American pronunciation over anything else.
That said I’ll never criticise a non native English speaker for something like that.
They bother to learn the language.
We’re lazy bastards who, for the most part, don’t learn any.
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The Niffen accent is from northern Minnesota/Wisconsin, an area of the United States that has both strong Canadian influences and a lot of Scandinavian immigration, both in the nineteenth century and following World War 2.
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Yeah, fair enough. I should have read between the lines.
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Imagine waking up after a snoring off a session drinking the peatiest smokiest whisky whilst singing Proclaimers songs by a turf fire for several hours.
The first sound you make comes close to the “ch” sound in Loch.
Imagine not being a horrible stereotype
Scotland makes some of the finest Gin in the world (Harris, Botanist… even the awful but popular Hendricks is made about 15 mins from my house) and the Proclaimers are dreadful
It wasn’t trying to be.
I love Whisky (although nae no much on the peaty smokey brands).
I know they make some rum here too (I do live in Scotland).
I also like the Proclaimers but I was aiming for a Scottish band that most people know.
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