Speaking in "faux old English" [Poll]

[GrumpyOldMan]

No, never. I find it silly, especially when someone says "aye" instead of yes.

Haddaway man, Ah've nivvor hord owt sa daft. Rund ower way most folk aalwaz use aye and na.

 

[Templetroll]

in a PBem campaign I once had a cleric facing undead present his holy symbol to them and exclaim, "Avaunt thee to Hell and Perdition!" The DM replied, "I guess that means you are turning them. yep, I checked dictionary.com. Cool."

That's about the only times I use that.

So, since everyone is down on archaic English, how do you feel about Pirate Speech?

 

[Piratecat]

--Ye Olde Olde Tyme Poutey & Peddantic Buttercuppe, verily and forsooth!

Fixed that for you.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Thank you. My inner pedant was rattling the bars of its cage over this one.

Old English is what Beowulf was written in.
Middle English is the language of Chaucer.
Shakespeare is actually considered modern English.

But to answer the question, no. I don't sprinkle my in-game conversation with goofy-ass psuedo archaic language.

--Pouty & Pedantic Buttercup

Completely agreed!

Although admittedly, I've had one notable exception in a game where a Roman spirit tried to talk to a PC in Old English (the real Old English, not Elizabethan English), asking "Do you speak English", and the PC couldn't make out any of it at all.

 

[diaglo]

Thank you. My inner pedant was rattling the bars of its cage over this one.

Old English is what Beowulf was written in.
Middle English is the language of Chaucer.
Shakespeare is actually considered modern English.

But to answer the question, no. I don't sprinkle my in-game conversation with goofy-ass psuedo archaic language.

--Pouty & Pedantic Buttercup

qft.


i sometimes speak about apples & pears .... (translation = stairs). but that's Modern English (no, not the Mesh and Lace album) too. just with a cockney accent. cah. blimey.

 

[librarius_arcana]

qft.

i sometimes speak about apples & pears .... (translation = stairs). but that's Modern English (no, not the Mesh and Lace album) too. just with a cockney accent. cah. blimey.

That's Cockney Rhyming Slang, (used originally used as code so the police couldn't understand what was being said,)

 

[diaglo]

That's Cockney Rhyming Slang, (used originally used as code so the police couldn't understand what was being said,)

i know what it is. but it is also a form of Modern English.

diaglo "spent his youth in Engerland" Ooi

edit: my Danish is too rusty and accented to do justice to faux Old English

 

[Plane Sailing]

I actually prefer modern anarchronistic english for my gaming

I rather like this conflation of anarchy with chronistic! Anachronistic might mean chronologically misplaced, anarchronistic could then mean all over the shop!

 

[Plane Sailing]

Haddaway man, Ah've nivvor hord owt sa daft. Rund ower way most folk aalwaz use aye and na.

Very credible geordie, I must say (and no, nothing to do with star trek to those as don't understand!)

 

[edbonny]

Voted "other". Guess why.

Gez,

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