And Conan should have a ??? accent?

[rgard]

I had a D&D strategy meeting a few weeks ago in a seldom-used conference room. So I go in for my meeting and the room looks like a bloody armory. There must have been 25 swords in there including claymores, long swords, short swords, scimitars, and a few we could not identify. It struck me that at that moment there might be no other business meeting happening in the world in a room full of swords. It made me realize that at moment if a horde of barbarians attacked the building we'd be sitting pretty good in the sword dept.

The advertising creative team uses this room for concepting (AKA screwing off). They had been working on a M:TG photo shoot and a few days prior had posted a company wide email request looking for swords to use as props in the photo shoot. This was the room they were storing them in along with a 9-foot tall platinum angel statue.

"9-foot tall platinum angel statue"?

I've been on the wrong side of this business.

Thanks for sharing!

Rich

 

[rgard]

<pedant>Actually, the Indo-European group mostly consists of Asian languages. However, the languages of Europe are mostly Indo-European.</pedant>

Not sure what reference you are using, but a quick look in the back of my dictionary confirms that roughly 3/4 of the languages in the Indo-European language group are spoken in Europe with Russian being spoken in both Europe and Asia. And Russian is considered a European language.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Klaus]

He grew up in Cimmeria. He was never a slave in anything Howard wrote. Maybe a prisoner for a brief time, but never a slave. That's one of the many things that bugged me about the movie. According to Howard, Conan became a man in Cimmerian culture when he participated in the Cimmerian attack on an Acquilonian outpost, Venarium. He was about 15 or 16. He seems to have left Cimmeria soon after that, to wander on his various adventures.

Yeah. First time Conan left the hills of Cimmeria was in "The Frost Giant's Daughter", when he went north and joined the Aesir in a raid against the Vanir, and from there he eventually got to Hyperborea.

 

[Nyeshet]

Indo-European includes the languages of the Iran through to much of India. Considering how many peoples (and languages, for that matter) exist in that swath of area, I wouldn't be surprised if half or more of the IE languages turned out to be continental Asian rather than continental European. Certainly, excluding the expansions into the Americas, Australia, and South Africa, it seems that it is possible at least half of the modern IE speakers are from the Asian Continent (due to India's vast population).

These links were informative:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoeuropean_languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indo-European_languages

 

[Anti-Sean]

He grew up in Brookline, right? So a Bostonian accent, if anything.

 

[kenobi65]

He grew up in Brookline, right? So a Bostonian accent, if anything.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005277/

Wrong Conan.

 

[Huw]

Not sure what reference you are using, but a quick look in the back of my dictionary confirms that roughly 3/4 of the languages in the Indo-European language group are spoken in Europe with Russian being spoken in both Europe and Asia. And Russian is considered a European language.

Thanks,
Rich

www.ethnologue.com

Their numbers are bit on the high side, but consistently so. They treat the various Italian and German dialects as separate languages, for example. They list about 450 Indo-European languages, 300 of which are spoken outside of Europe.

Your dictionary probably lists the major languages, which will miss a whole bunch of languages spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, India, China, Russia and Tajikistan.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I grew up on Austrian and would like to see that continue. I would be willing to expand a little bit, and since I tend to associate barbarian in my own mind with Germanic any Germanic language would work (So the Swedfsh Chef would be ok as well).

 

[Frostmarrow]

In Red Nails the voice of Conan is Ron Pearlman. So my second guess would be a Hellish accent.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Some have suggested a Scottish accent and that will never feel right for me...just think of Tim the Enchanter or the skit where the aliens were turning everybody into Scots.

...because Conan intends to win Wimbledon!

/he does have a rather good two-handed backhand.