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Post by StyxD on Jun 25, 2017 7:09:46 GMT
So, my impressions when all's done: I could understand everyone fine… except for Hark, who was just too English for me to discern words at times. Sometimes I was silent because I couldn't follow the conversation. Canuovea has a really clear voice and can change it surprisingly well… man, you should screw your current job and start a Total War LP channel. Did I have a heavy eastern-European accent?
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 25, 2017 9:09:21 GMT
Why thank ye kindly.
Hark is very English, but I think the mic was part of the problem sometimes. It is funny though, England is closer to Poland than America is, but strangely we colonials set the standard for recognizable English? Ah well, a credit to America's ubiquity. As that one song says "We're All Living In America". Wunderbar.
Your accent was clearly present but it did not obscure meaning for me. Seemed pretty good. Though I suppose we didn't really talk too much about Harkovast names for things... or did you notice us saying Harkovast words differently?
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 25, 2017 16:32:38 GMT
I live in Yorkshire, where no one has spoken English correctly for hundreds of years. Fortunately I was mainly talking crap so you didnt miss anything!
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Post by StyxD on Jun 25, 2017 17:50:13 GMT
The mic was certainly a problem in general, but there were uninterrupted parts that I couldn't get a word of, while no one else seemed to have a problem. In particular when Hark was listing off races. Though now that I think of it, it's not necessarily British vs Colonial English. Maybe Hark just naturally speaks very fast, like Can when he faked a Newfoundland accent. I think it's less America's ubiquity and more the fact that computers come from USA - and you use them for everything nowadays. They actually teach British English in schools in Europe, but combined with English sites we encounter on the net (which are mostly from USA), we end up using an inconsistent mix. As for Harkovast names, you might have noticed that I avoided saying them before you've said them (I called the Tendu "frog ones"). That's because I usually can tell what name you are saying, but you might not be able to when I pronounce some syllables in an odd way. With made up words I tend to mix pronunciations from different languages within one word. Out of curiosity, was my accent stereotypically Slavic, or something different? I know most stereotypes are based on Russian. Or maybe I sounded Scottish? Hark's listing of playable races gave me a thought, but I'm gonna start a more appropriate thread for it.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 25, 2017 19:04:27 GMT
I normally refer to the various races by what they look like, even when I know how to pronounce the name of theri race. Except the Golta, oddly enough.
You sounded Polish to me, of course I've worked with several Poles for the past few years so maybe that makes it easier for me to notice the difference between a Polish accent and a not-Polish Slavic accent?
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Post by StyxD on Jun 25, 2017 19:30:08 GMT
Yeah, it could be it.
If I had a weird accent that no one could place, I imagine I'd truly have mastered the language.
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 25, 2017 20:05:20 GMT
If you'd have sounded Scottish it wouldn't be too great a surprise, apparently the Scots did a bunch of business with the Poles at one point in history.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 25, 2017 21:40:49 GMT
You sounded very polish to me, but I could understand what you were saying. I talk very quickly, which I think was the most likely problem rather than the version of English being used. There isn't realy a correct or worng pronunciation for Harkovast names in my view.
Canuovea said Gyo sort of like "Gee-yo" while I was saying "Guy-o" As long as people know which one you mean, thats all that matters. People in Harkovast would have some outrageous fantasy accent, so they say them all differently to us.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 25, 2017 22:03:49 GMT
I woulda been there but I had a wedding to attend.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 26, 2017 17:52:10 GMT
Dont worry, we will do another one in a few weeks or so probably. I just don't want to over do it and run out of stupid shit to talk about!
This one involved me rambling lots of really in depth rpg philosophy, and telling some realy stupid RPG anecdotes.
The best bit was when people started debating is the Galdrasai or the Levengroust were better in a fight (well that bit made my day anyway!)
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Post by StyxD on Jun 26, 2017 20:15:32 GMT
Man, I missed out the cool RPG stuff, then.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 26, 2017 20:31:00 GMT
No I think you heard some of it. I went into my whole philsophy of it a bit, and why changing characters to fit the plot is realy important because to me its all about the collective story creation.
Don't worry, if you want to hear me being pretentious and talking shit, you are bound to get more of that next time.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Jun 26, 2017 21:00:03 GMT
Wait a minute. That's not right. Characters don't need to fit the plot, characters drive the plot. If you're altering characters on the fly just the serve the story that's really sloppy.
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Post by StyxD on Jun 26, 2017 22:13:10 GMT
In Hark's defense (crazy, I know), as the storyteller you don't really make characters in an RPG, so you need the plot to keep the group cohesive. It's really easy to go all the way in the other direction and end up with a bunch of unrelated people who have no reason to cooperate, much less care about each other.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 26, 2017 23:46:29 GMT
No I mean creating characters in advance that fit the story thats going to be told. Like Not doing characters that are repeats of things we just saw in previous campaigns, that kinda thing. Honestly you are hearing what was a big drawn out talk compressed into a few lines of text here! It makes more sense when I say it!
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