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I've made a dwarven fighter and am going to start playing him on Friday. I'm trying to get the accent down but besides a few phrases from Warcraft and OotS I don't really know how to make "normal" sentences sound dwarvish.
With that I mean, I don't know how things sound that I haven't heard before in I don't exactly know how to go about asking this, so I figured if people wrote down phrases phonetically sp , I could practice them and learn how same sounding words are spoken. So, if you could, please share your knowledge of drunk and drunkest dwarvish. Nifft Penguin Herder. Two drink minimum? Stormborn Explorer. Doug McCrae Legend. Try to use the words 'och', 'dinnae', 'ken' and 'muckle' as often as possible.
Ideally say nothing else. It's okay, dwarves are taciturn. If pressed then try one of the following: Dinnae fash yersel' It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht, the nicht Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose. This one can raise Scottishness to dangerous levels. For more information, watch this and this.
If you attempt to mix irish and scottish accents and blend in the kind of accent you hear in a bad pirate movie you'll come pretty close to talking like a dwarf. Another wonderful resource for dwarves is a download at Daigon Scott's Web Page Dwarven Dictionary.
I seem to recall this was a case in a PC game called Enclave which was produced by a Swedish gaming studio where the goblins spoke Swedish. All tough I think it was more funny for me then for a non Swedish speaking person. Since the content of the conversation from the hungover goblin was pretty funny. Posted - 09 Jan : The thing that I just can't seem to get past is the use of surnames like Battlehammer for a race that speaks its own language.
Why would a native speaker of dwarven have a surname that has meaning in the common tongue? When I say 'Battlehammer' to a speaker of english, it has immediate meaning and is recognized as english words. Would a Russian or Nigerian or Laotian have "Toasteroven" as a surname? My name is Vladimir Pyotrevich Loungechair. Pleased to meet you! Edited by - Brother Ezra on 09 Jan Lina Senior Scribe Australia Posts.
In some of the novels I have come across the Dwarven Surname reflects the family trade. Buried in the flow of time. In thy great name. I pledge myself to darkness. All the fools who stand in our way shall be destroyed…by the power you and I possess! Ah, such an ugly word That's always bothered me, too, unless we assume that they are translated into common for the benefit of non-dwarves.
I don't see why they'd bother, actually, but But then, we also have a Matron Malice, which is equally wtfish. Deverien Valandil Seeker 73 Posts. Hm, good point. I certainly can't speak for R. Salvatore's reasoning behind the name, but I can give my own thoughts on common-tongue surnames. In a fic I'm currently writing, I have an elven character whose last name is 'Shademoor', a compound of two common-tongue words. Naturally, that is not a proper name for an elf. So why does she have that name?
My reasoning is that because she lives in a predominantly human city Baldur's Gate and follows a deity Tyr predominantly associated with humans, she would take on an easy-to-say common-tongue name so that her human colleagues wouldn't be stumbling over their tongues saying 'Illytharialatanablahblahblah Time for the resident dwarf to speak up. Dwarves, as a whole, are a dour, stoic lot. They express themselves rarely, but when they do they go all out.
Dwarven craftsmanship is second to none in the Realms. The beard of a dwarf is long, lustrous, and sacred with nary a whisker to rival them. In war, the worst place to be is on the wrong side of a dwarven war formation.
In speech, ah yes speech, dwarves go for the gusto. Rolling, gutteral, like grinding stones, with hard sounds and short words, dwarven speech is forceful and varied. In the North, the variety of Delzoun clans, many hidden for centuries, developed widely in to various patterns.
So, if your dwarf sounds like a Northman of old, with Norse connotations, then so be it. Or, maybe, he is a bit more refined, and sounds like a Scotsman. Celtish, go for it. Maybe he hails from Citadel Felbarr, where we now have a melting pot of Delzoun dwarves from Adbar, Sundabar, Mithril Hall, and all points between. It is a place, as is much of the North, where the various dialects come together. In the South, dwarven speech is a bit more polished. All of the prim and proper gold dwarves conform more to the standards of speech established by the elves and humans.
Still, being dwarves, their speech is deliberate and distinct from that of humans, elves, halflings, and gnomes.
Now, as to names, lets just say translation. Dwarves, as have elves and other demi-humans, gave up long ago expecting humans to correctly pronounce the names and words of the dwarven people. Battlehammer is, as you have guessed, not a dwarven name, per se. The clan name in dwarven translates to Battlehammer in common. Most clan names have been adopted into common and are widely known to this day. Dwarves don' speak wi' Scottish accents, ya wee man!
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