And Conan should have a ??? accent?

[kenobi65]

He should have a Scottish Highland accent.

Y'know, like Christopher Lambert.

Damn you, Claudio! I just shot Diet Coke out my nose!

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Umm, Cimmerian?



Do I win a prize?

Hasta,
Flynn

BTW, seriously, having grown up on Schwarzenegger's Conan, I'd say Austrian.

QFT

 

[trancejeremy]

It doesn't make a difference to me, as the Hyborian Age is, what, over 10,000 years ago? I doubt any accent from that long ago would sound like anything we know today. So just about any accent would work.

Well, the thing is, Howard deliberately made the Hyborian Age a mish-mash of historical settings simply renamed, so he could actually write historical fiction in the guise of sword & sorcery (which he could sell better than his actual historical stuff). And in his Hyborian world, the Cimmerians were basically the Scots. The physical descriptions of Cimmeria are much more like Scotland (or at least part of it - the Highlands) than Ireland (or Wales).

 

[ssampier]

It doesn't make a difference to me, as the Hyborian Age is, what, over 10,000 years ago? I doubt any accent from that long ago would sound like anything we know today. So just about any accent would work. Trying to affect an accent for an age that long ago would be silly, even sillier than those movies about World War II with the Germans speaking English - but in a thick German accent...

So he speaks a Proto-Indo-European language?

 

[Emirikol]

Conan would kick arse in a kilt!

"ARRG!...ooops, sorry about the shark there...'


Bagpipes playing: "If you want my body, and you think I'm sexy, come on baby let me know!!!" ~ So I married an Axe Murderer

jh

 

[Ranger REG]

Ebonic.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Dwarven or Warcraft Orc.

 

[joeandsteve]

Austrian

 

[Ranger REG]

I would say Welsh. I have an easier time imagine the mighty-thewed, panther-like Conan speaking with a Welsh lilt than I can a Scottish brogue. I think Welsh is more musical.

Conan The Musical. Hmm. It's doable.

 

[Sound of Azure]

Australian.

Rowdy, loud, and loveable. Isn't that the image modern Australians convey? Sure, Conan was supposed to be dour and brooding from time to time, but most of the time he was a hard-partying alcohol-loving jock.

/everybody loves the Australians, right?
//except Kiwis, maybe.

crikey!