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Date Posted: 20:35:22 10/23/02 Wed
Author: Lauren
Subject: Ah, but which accent?
In reply to: Mikeal(waiting for the negative flames) 's message, "Accents and charcters..." on 09:15:23 10/15/02 Tue

You know, I'd far rather hear someone speaking their own accent with the appropriate words thrown in than someone trying to fake an accent. Why is it that the lady in Elizabethan gown is almost universally speaking like a gutter-bred Dublinner, and her consort sounds like he just came down from the highlands? In period, even were they actually from these places, they'd die rather than admit it to the Court.
Forget the stupid accent, get the WORDS right. The difference between thee and thou and you, for starters. Where to add "st" and "th" to the ends of verbs. If you're being polite in Elizabethan-speak, 'you' IS the proper term of address!
It's not hard to add in the occasional touch to make things feel right without going overboard. My husband greets his patrons and does his hawking in his own accent plus several key words. Our patrons are "Saiid" for a man and "Saiida" for a woman. We greet people with Salaam Aleikum. Each cup of coffee is served with "Mashru Bil'hana", or drink with Happiness. Shukran is thank you. If we start off in a slighly different accent (and Arabic is hard to keep from turning into Russian!) and keep up the key words, we usually create a good experience without confusing anyone or gettiong stuff wrong.
I thought about developing more of an accent, and I will be working on it, but I think there are other things more important to keeping the atmosphere going.
Lauren
Qamar Franji Eastern Arts
Henna art and Turkish Coffee

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