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[Cespinarve]

I suggest that a global moratorium be establish forum wide that no one is allowed to post dialogue written like some Scottish people talk- it's an abuse of the poor, long suffering apostrophe, and it just makes it hard to read.

I don't think of Dwarves as Scottish, I think of them as selfish assholes, and that's a trait that belongs to all nations.

[EmperorJon]

I wouldn't say Dwarves are Scottish... they seem to sound a bit Welsh sometimes. I suppose they just sound like anyone who lives in a hilly area? Meh, they all sound like that when they talk in my head anyway.

What...?

Oh sh- er...

[loose nut]

I decree that from this point forward all dwarves talk in hard Boston accents.

[Cthulhu]

My dorfs don't talk.  Talking interferes with their drudgery and makes them think their lives might be worth something.

[tolkafox]

My dwarves don't have Scottish accents, they're just missing too many teeth.

Urist1: "B'udy gobbo 'unched mah eeth oot, eh id!"
Urist2: "...What did he say?"
Urist3: "He ay he ait ot is eeth!"
Urist2: "I'm glad I chose bookkeeping as my profession..."

[zombat]

Dwarves had their origin in Scandinavia so it's always baffled me that most people choose to RP them with a a scottish accent.

I blame Tolkien.

[Starver]

Being most familiar with the South Yorkshire coalfields (of times past, THAAAAATTTTCCCHHHHHHHEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!) one of the (many[1]) places where people regularly used to go underground and dig tunnels, I suppose I tend to put a Barnsley accent on them, personally.


[1] Durham, South Wales, the area around Coalbrookdale (surprisingly!) are others in the UK, with Pittsburgh entering my consciousness as the most obvious Left Pondian example, and beyond coal there's the like of the eponymouslt known Kimberley deposits in ZA, and I suspect Chile (as a whole, because, to be honest, I have very little subregional knowledge of that country) has been very recently associated with miners, also, but I bet any attempt to try a Chilean accent would be as close to Mexican as anywhere else...

[612DwarfAvenue]

Dragon Age has them with American accents.

[Cespinarve]

Dwarves had their origin in Scandinavia so it's always baffled me that most people choose to RP them with a a scottish accent.

I blame Tolkien.

Tolkien didn't make them remotely Scottish. The Hobbit? They're not terribly Scottish. LOTR? Not really Scottish? Silmarillion, Book of Lost Tales and so on? When they do appear... not very Scottish. I mean, for one thing, their kings don't seem to have an obsession with killing each other or their predecessors.

[Lord Vetinari]

I blame Tolkien.

Who gave them a semitic language, which means that they should sound Jewish or Arab.

Still, I don't understand the point of the topic. The scottish accent is a meme, that's all.

[Fidna]

Tolkien didn't give them a Semitic language, so much as he used the concept of a Semitic language for them. The idea was that they were given a unique language by their creator, Aule. Conceptually the idea was to give them a sense of otherness since they were relatively so isolated from other societies (and so possessed a language isolate).

[Jake]

Exaggerated and probably laughably inaccurate Scandanavian accents would scarcely be an improvement. I recommend a moratorium on giving dwarves any distinctive regional accent unless the poster either speaks with it themselves or lives there.

Although there is much unexploited comedy gold in Welsh dwarves and Scouse elves.

[Dutchling]

If only Dwarves would talk Afrikaans
Afrikaans is basically Dutch without any grammar or spelling...

[Cespinarve]

I blame Tolkien.

Who gave them a semitic language, which means that they should sound Jewish or Arab.

Still, I don't understand the point of the topic. The scottish accent is a meme, that's all.

The point of the topic is the suggestion that horrible, syntax butchering nightmares of sentences like "As th' year comes t' an en' " and words like "cannae" and " 'elp'd " be halted forthwith, in order to save us tender souls who weeps an the sight of cruel raped apostrophes and misused Saxon genitives.

[dwarfhoplite]

Dwarves had their origin in Scandinavia so it's always baffled me that most people choose to RP them with a a scottish accent.

I blame Tolkien.

Yeah, we dont speak scottish or welsh that much in everyday life, at least not here in Finland