[ SECRET POST #2085 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2085 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The standard General American accent is actually closer to most medieval English dialects than British Recieved Pronunciation (what many Americans tend to call a 'british accent'.)

I've read that before possibly on TVTropes, which is why it baffles me that RP is the default fantasy dialect, when you could really have a mix British, American, and many other accents and it would make just as much sense. I've also heard that in regards to historical dramas (which is a different genre, the phenomenon seems somewhat related), the RP accent has to do with the influence of Shakespeare and his Roman tragedies. So maybe that influenced fantasy as well?

I get annoyed when people in fantasy setting use RP English. If they're going to have everybody fake accents, then at least use Tidewater or Yorkshire or East Anglian or Ozark or something that at least vaguely resembles what some knights and ladies really spoke.

Game of Thrones tends to use more Northern accents for characters from the north of Westeros and more RP accents for the characters from the southern regions, so there's at least a little bit of variety.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, the Ozarks are a well-known hilly/mountainous region in southwestern Missouri, and those accents in a fantasy setting would sound really off to the OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Roman Tragedies = if you really want Fun With Fantasy Dialect, read an early-20th-century British translation of classical Athenian comedy. For some reason it was customary for translators to give all the Spartans a strong Scots dialect. (this kind of makes sense because the original Greek emphasized the spartan vs. athenian dialect differences, but Spartan=Scots kind of wrinkles my brain.)

[cloudsinvenice]

Oh wow, thanks for that. It's the sort of thing I would be unlikely to have found out for myself, but now I have an urge to dig those translations up. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Tolkien. Tolkien is why. Standard fantasy setting is based entirely on Tolkien's alternative medieval fantasy England.

[st_jane_ambulance]

It's a mythic-historical not-that-Medieval proto-England, really.