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Fakey Teaches
Topic Started: Aug 7 2013, 04:20 AM (198 Views)
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So I was commenting on a friends NSFW story, and did a SFW review. I thought I would share with you guys on how to write accents. I'll probably use this topic whenever I find something new to go on about in detail.

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Amber wine. Anything at all?

AMBER. WINE. Anything!?

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I have to say, this makes me want an AU romance story out of you. I can see this story going places, but it'd need to be longer, and made PG-13. Also what Jub said about making Blueblood more of a jerkass. This is the kind of story that deserves multiple chapters of character development.

I should also mention that about halfway through my reading, everything got weird. The voice I use in my head when reading Blueblood's dialogue had some wires frayed or something 'cause his voice turned into Nick Cage's voice.

"OH NO NOT THE MAGICKS! MY EYES! MY EYES! AAHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHH!"

Speaking of THE MAGICKS, you really need to tone down the whole Funetick Aksent thing. Lower it down to one or two key words. For example, when I write for the Apples, I use the speech I picked up from my time in Southern Kentucky.

Posted Image Ya know, fer when I write as Big Macintosh talking tah Applebloom. The reader knows who's talkin' so they don't need no special accentin' 'cause ya understand exactly how ya should be hearin' it with yer mind's ear. It's pretty durn easy to pick up on an accent jus' by readin' it. Ya don't need to spell 'I' as 'Ah': fer one, it's a big ol distraction and can take 'way from any seriousness ya had buildin' up. Also, if you say it out loud in their accent, you can hear that it's 'Aye', not 'Ah'.
'Ah' is th' sound that Jelly Goldspoon used in the movie Jurassic Park. 'Ah Uh Oh, Uhm'ing all over th' place.
Also important to know is where to accent. Best example I' can think of is 'Ya' and 'You'. See, ya is used when flowin' into a long vowel sound. Ya understand? You use 'you' when flowin' into a short vowel sound, and most consonants. You get it? Or will I have to tell you again? It may change, and in cases where you're unsure, just say it out loud and go with the one that sounds best.

As fer German accents, it's important to study the sound of the accent, and then strip it bare. Don't just replace the letters in a word with the stereotype, but actually try to get a grasp of the language. Listen to German people speak, and apply what you've gotten from the language to your writing.

I suppose I should give you a brief lesson, considering my past with the language(Studied it for two semesters in order to get a grasp on how it sounds).

First, it should be known that in German, you capitalize all nouns. Not just proper ones, but all of them. So to demonstrate such a point, well give an example.
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"I love this Dress. I believe it brings out The Magicks!"

Nice and simple. She doesn't shout it out, but she puts some oomph behind it.

Now, onto words that are commonly accented. The(Ze), have(haff), anything with 'w', 'v', 'f', 'c' or 'k', and native German words.

Ven your karachter talks like zis all off ze time, people vill get fed up wery fast.

People should not have to slow down just so they can understand her. Using some German words where you would normally use the English is acceptable though, because sometimes it's hard to drop some of the first words you learn. Here's a short guide of good sounding alternatives that aren't hard to read.
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Yeah, Yes, Yep = Ja
No, Nope, Nay = Nein
Meh, Okay, So-So = So la-la
Counting. Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn. I'd recommend learning the entire counting system, but this works for one through ten, if you can't tell from the obvious name similarities.
Color words are always great, because English and German have very similar words for them. Weiss is white, Blau is blue, et cetera
Same applies to nouns with English equivalents that sound almost the same. Apple becomes Appfel, cake becomes Kuchen, beer becomes Bier.


Those are all I can come up with on my own, but I'm sure you'll find other similar words. Making up silly, blocky sentences like 'Kom offer here ven you want' can be done away with when you've got some more words in your vocab to make it seem less absurd. German actually flows through the ears in a way that I can only compare to the feeling of dragging your tongue through mashed potatoes. Yeah. German sounds like how mashed taters feel.

I learned most over what I did from movies(Vier Minuten is one you should definitely watch in the native language. Amazing.) and music videos, some of which I'll post here for you to study.


Has the English lyrics for you to match from. I'd be wary, because there's some French too.


This one has the lyrics in English and German. It's a duet, and I'm fairly sure they're repeating each other.


Because I like things in sets of three.


Heck, you can learn how to write any accent as long as you familiarize yourself with the sound of both languages.

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