Fun fact: You can toggle between Russian and English in Metro 2033. Why? Because all the Russian voice actors recorded their dialouge in both languages.SilentCom said:On a different note, this is how the Russian language should sound in a video game:
I didn't skip over the "R"s because of my own accent, haha, then I realised, lol. I'm the same with my Berlitz Swedish booklet. It tells you how to pronounce the words but I end up confusing myself a bit when I go to say it then listen to it on the tape and I sit there wondering for a moment where the "R"s disappeared to, haha.y1fella said:"Hulloh? Caann yehr hier meh!"
If somebody tries to do a Northern Irish accent at me, it's either because they're mocking my dialect or I'm doing it incredibly broadly with a friend to take the piss out of ourselves It's horrible! Irish accents are lovely but when people try and fail at them it's embarrassing enough, lmao!TheRightToArmBears said:As an Irishman, I can just say you're getting it easy.SammiYin said:As an Englishman, I can just say you're getting it easy.
I live in England too, so everyone I meet seems to try an Irish accent 'for a laugh'. It is always awful.
Yeah, well... Queensland has the highest concentration of 'broad Australian' accent. Once you're outside the larger coastal towns it's rare to hear anything other than the broad Australian accent (unless you're in tribal lands in which case you get tribal language influenced accents instead).AngloDoom said:OT: I'll be honest, half my family is Australian and they pretty much all sound like that. I went to visit them once in Quuensland
Yeah I guess I jumped the gun with the whole ignorant yanks thing but that being said I believe I have a point and if you can't tell one Australian accent from another then that does not mean they are the same. Mind you it's easily possible w=you were playing with people with an accent like the one in the trailer.Ghengis John said:I played world of warcraft with 3 Australians in our late-night guild 2-3 nights a week for two years. And one of them sounded exactly like this guy. So, seriously. This is less an example of "ignorant yanks" as it is a matter of "nitpicky aussie". So the guy's from Queensland? So you wish he had your accent instead? Big whoop. This is tantamount to a southerner hearing a Boston accent and getting upset because "americans do not sound like that". Some do. I don't know if we think they all sound like that, but I know I don't.y1fella said:snip
Somebody else pointed out something so I'm just going to quote him and say I agree with everything he just said.FallenTraveler said:So, what you're saying is that you don't like that the characters in this game ARE those kinds of australians? How do you know that isn't exactly what the dev's wanted to do? Or are you saying you don't like steve irwin?y1fella said:People Like Steve Irwin were the exception. There are people from Australia who sound like that but they are very few and very very far between.
RhombusHatesYou said:Which is really kind of strange because, if memory serves, that face tatt is a Samoan design... and seeing as the guy speaking also looks somewhat Polynesian I'd have expected a more Samoan sounding accent not a Mt Isa cattlefucker accent.y1fella said:For those of you who haven't been following dead island they released a new trailer in which a life guard with a tattooed face speaks a few words in an "Australian" accent.
Fair enough then, my view of Australia is pretty much limited to that one experience and Steve Urwin so I'm not exactly an expert.RhombusHatesYou said:Yeah, well... Queensland has the highest concentration of 'broad Australian' accent. Once you're outside the larger coastal towns it's rare to hear anything other than the broad Australian accent (unless you're in tribal lands in which case you get tribal language influenced accents instead).AngloDoom said:OT: I'll be honest, half my family is Australian and they pretty much all sound like that. I went to visit them once in Quuensland
It's not so much that they get the accent 'wrong' (although that happens most of the time as it is) its that they always, ALWAYS, use the accent that's looked down on here as the accent of dipshit racist hicks... and Queenslanders... but seeing as that's how most other Australians regard Queenslanders, it's somewhat redundant to mention them seperately.
Or to put it another way... Imagine if the rest of the world seemed intent on regarding Dick van Dyke's attempt at Cockney as the One and Only True English Accent.
Hey man, as someone who has lived in Queensland for 16 years, I can tell you we do not sound like that. A few bogans from Ipswich, maybe. But don't lump all Queenslanders in with those types.BanicRhys said:Well actually, as an Australian I can say that most of those accents sounded realistic, they might be pretty broad but there are people who talk like that *cough* Queensland *cough* in this country.
I thought the accents in finding Nemo were pretty good, especially Nemo and his Dad. Weren't the sharks meant to be satires of the stereotypical accent?Halberd said:That is an Australian accent but it is a slightly stereotypical one though, a lot of people have the misconception that all Australians have that sort of Queensland/Brisbane/Sydney'ish accent.
Kind of reminds me of the Australian accents in the Finding Nemo movie.
But yeah, its not that fake of an Australian accent but to be honest probably only a quarter or less of Australians even sound like that...
As a Welshman I can say that people in glass houses shouldn't 'do' accents when they're talking to a foreign friend or find out someone has any nationality other than English or they're liable to need a good window replacement service.SammiYin said:As an Englishman, I can just say you're getting it easy.
If by people, you mean Americans then yes. but that's only due to poor education system and little knowledge of the world around them...AngloDoom said:Fair enough then, my view of Australia is pretty much limited to that one experience and Steve Urwin so I'm not exactly an expert.RhombusHatesYou said:Yeah, well... Queensland has the highest concentration of 'broad Australian' accent. Once you're outside the larger coastal towns it's rare to hear anything other than the broad Australian accent (unless you're in tribal lands in which case you get tribal language influenced accents instead).AngloDoom said:OT: I'll be honest, half my family is Australian and they pretty much all sound like that. I went to visit them once in Quuensland
It's not so much that they get the accent 'wrong' (although that happens most of the time as it is) its that they always, ALWAYS, use the accent that's looked down on here as the accent of dipshit racist hicks... and Queenslanders... but seeing as that's how most other Australians regard Queenslanders, it's somewhat redundant to mention them seperately.
Or to put it another way... Imagine if the rest of the world seemed intent on regarding Dick van Dyke's attempt at Cockney as the One and Only True English Accent.
That said, I think the only reason anything other than cockney is show as a stereotype when presenting the English in the media is so they can have the Queen's English, tea-sipping, scone-farting individual with a monocle. At least we have some variance, but I can't help but feel it's only for the shake of presenting the English 'class-system'.
Stereotypes will always take the most exaggerate voices because they're the hardest to to 'wrong'. If I tried to speak with a slight Scottish accent, people could mistake it. If I yell about haggis and bagpipes in a voice like a bull-mastif people, well then people go "Ah! A Scottish!"
Being that most of the 'people' I talk to are English, that's actually not what I mean.seagoon said:If by people, you mean Americans then yes. but that's only due to poor education system and little knowledge of the world around them...AngloDoom said:Fair enough then, my view of Australia is pretty much limited to that one experience and Steve Urwin so I'm not exactly an expert.RhombusHatesYou said:Yeah, well... Queensland has the highest concentration of 'broad Australian' accent. Once you're outside the larger coastal towns it's rare to hear anything other than the broad Australian accent (unless you're in tribal lands in which case you get tribal language influenced accents instead).AngloDoom said:OT: I'll be honest, half my family is Australian and they pretty much all sound like that. I went to visit them once in Quuensland
It's not so much that they get the accent 'wrong' (although that happens most of the time as it is) its that they always, ALWAYS, use the accent that's looked down on here as the accent of dipshit racist hicks... and Queenslanders... but seeing as that's how most other Australians regard Queenslanders, it's somewhat redundant to mention them seperately.
Or to put it another way... Imagine if the rest of the world seemed intent on regarding Dick van Dyke's attempt at Cockney as the One and Only True English Accent.
That said, I think the only reason anything other than cockney is show as a stereotype when presenting the English in the media is so they can have the Queen's English, tea-sipping, scone-farting individual with a monocle. At least we have some variance, but I can't help but feel it's only for the shake of presenting the English 'class-system'.
Stereotypes will always take the most exaggerate voices because they're the hardest to to 'wrong'. If I tried to speak with a slight Scottish accent, people could mistake it. If I yell about haggis and bagpipes in a voice like a bull-mastif people, well then people go "Ah! A Scottish!"