Should D&D be more American?

[Ravellion]

Er... I am Dutch, but I don't get the reference why Trolls should speak Dutch. Besides, you couldn't do the glottal G anyway. At least not throughout the day without getting a sore throat that is.

And on the American - medieval thing: I had never heard of anything even like a renfest or Society of Creative Anachronism until I went to the US for a couple of weeks.

So yes, I do think that a number of Americans long for somthing they never had i their own history. Which is silly, because it prety much sucked for everyone except for wealthy merchants and nobles. Even in the rennaissance.

Rav

 

[Tom Cashel]

Gnomes - All Gnomes speak like Canadians. Why? 'Cause they're annoying and you sometimes forget they're there, of course!

I think gnomes should have French accents.

But for the same reason, of course.

 

[hong]

Er... I am Dutch, but I don't get the reference why Trolls should speak Dutch.

Indeed. Everyone knows that trolls should speak Belgian.


Hong "if not Austrian" Ooi

 

[Gez]

Well, French is not a "hard" language as German, but sometimes I'm quite confused about the accents (hope the spelling is correct)

What I like in German (and miss in English) is that, when I see a word, unless it is a foreign word, I can pronounce it (although I may have to take a deep breath before, for some of the longest compound words).

In English... Well, written english and spoken english are too different languages altogether.

How do the French pronounce "half-drow / half ixixachitl heucuva"?

I don't know the german word for heucuva (LEO doesn't too), but the rest is: Halb-Dunkelelf / Halb-Ixixachitl...quite simple Speak it as it is written (this is an heir from Latin)...

That would be "demi-drow/demi-ixixachitl heucuva".

Written "demi-drô/demi-ichichakitl heucuva" in French phonetics.

(I don't translate drow. However, dark elf would become "elfe noir". Litteraly, "elfe sombre" or "elfe ténébreux", but people always use "black elf".)

But, in English, as I have found out, everything is pronounced "fnord" (and written "ghoti", to rhyme with "fish").

 

[KnowTheToe]

here.. let us compromise..

Speak Australian-English.. it is a wonderful combination of both E/E and A/E... Plus we have Koalas.

How can you refute logic like that????

May I say, I have never met such a wise man. But, being half idiot myself I propose everything in pig latin? Do not Americans have pig latin?

 

[officeronin]

Well, just be glad Webster didn't get all the changes he wanted, otherwise we'd be spelling "group" as "groop" and "tounge" as "tung." By comparison the absence or presence of U's is small. Besides, we don't pronounce them anyway.

I always thought Webster was just trying to cheat at scrabble.

OfficeRonin

 

[officeronin]

The fact that American's were to ignorant to tell the difference between a chip and a french fry, could be why they are so overweight, or it could be due to their invention of another famous potato product, the couch potato.

Brits don't seem to have the problem with being overweight -- perhaps because of their teeth?

Smile for the camera -- on second thought, don't...

OfficeRonin

 

[Tom Cashel]

Indeed. Everyone knows that trolls should speak Belgian.

Hmm. If that's the case then what's Lucius Foxhound's excuse?

 

[Tsyr]

Actually I alway thought that Subway was were you get grinders, soda-pop and chips.

But then again, I'm half Newfie so what do I know.

Around here anyhow, "grinders" refer specificly to fried sandwichs... at subways, you get a "sub", of course.

And they aren't "soda pops" or "cokes" or any of this nonsense, they are "sodies" or "pops", darnit.

Every time I hear a foreigner pronounce Slough sluff, I want to give them a good slapping.

I've always said "sloo", but I'm probably wrong.

Where the (numerous explatives, each more horrific than the last, deleted here) can I find solid rules on how to pronounce words like that? The laws seem to change from word to word... at least when you get into the really strange stuff... the Slaine book gives me migrane headaches to try to figure out.

 

[Tsyr]

May I say, I have never met such a wise man. But, being half idiot myself I propose everything in pig latin? Do not Americans have pig latin?

ortofsay... ifferingday ialectsday oday appenhay, oughtay...

Maybe... I havn't even tried to use it since fourth grade