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xeeki
Old 01.16.2012 , 12:19 AM | #51
Quote: Originally Posted by anairien View Post
it is a kind of generic "posh" (almost but not quite received pronunciation) accent. the contraction of, for example "you will" as "you'll" sounds somewhat forced-if you listen carefully it sounds more like "youwul", rather than the more common "yool" sound, and the lengthened "a" sound (i think it is called "rhotic"-for example, "bath" in my own local accent is pronounced "baff", but in rp/posh/certain southern dialects it is pronounced "barth") is pretty stereotypically an upper crust thing in england.

but yeah-you come across all the standard national accents amongst the UK nations-ive encountered a scot, a welshman, one very soft spoken irish and a lot of toffs.

not one mancunian mind. just me :P
Thanks, that is probably my favourite English (as in the whole language not just England) accent of all I've heard. I wish I sounded like that TBH. But I am Swedish, our English accents sound so ugly. Personally I've practiced that ugliness away, I sound American enough to fool at least drunk Americans, but other than that I wouldn't know.
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BlackLotus
Old 01.16.2012 , 12:32 AM | #52
I'm french Canadian and I rather like the Empire speaking British english, I'm just glad I haven't heard any of that fake french english accent yet. I mean Grand Moff Kilran, Watcher One :3 are my favorite so far and Aristocra <3
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Old 01.16.2012 , 01:14 AM | #53
Quote: Originally Posted by xeeki View Post
I don't speak English natively (though I am very good at it for a teenager that uses it strictly as a second language) so I am asking you Brits, is the male Sith Warrior a real british voice actor, or one of those Americans faking the accent? (Because I like how he sounds)
Well, according to IMDB the sith warrior is voiced by Mark Bazeley who is from Oxfordshire, the very place where the English RP originates. I suspect that any apparent 'strain' in his accent is due to him playing up the evilness.

EDIT - there is a video of clips of some of his Film and TV work on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INKHWmqEkdQ

Hmm the sith warrior is played by the actor who played Alistair Campbell in "The Queen". Type casting?
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anairien
Old 01.16.2012 , 01:18 AM | #54
i coulda saved myself some effort if i had just done what Crito did

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Chanez
Old 01.16.2012 , 01:07 PM | #55
As a trooper one of your companions was once an imperial and speaks in that accent, your current companion at the time points it out

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RabidDutchman
Old 01.17.2012 , 06:46 PM | #56
Quote: Originally Posted by Chanez View Post
As a trooper one of your companions was once an imperial and speaks in that accent, your current companion at the time points it out
Garza points out that her (the new companion) accent is "Pure Dromund Kass". Makes sense that imperials would have a distinct accent, considering they've been isolated from the rest of the galaxy for a few thousand years

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Darth_Romana
Old 01.17.2012 , 07:09 PM | #57
Quote: Originally Posted by JawaJedi View Post
I pretty sure there were several British Accents during the movies, at least the OT. Because, you know, British People are evil.
Why does Hollywood always cast English actors as villians? Read newspaper article about that here.

It's because villains are harder to play, and to be that tallented you have to be British


Quote: Originally Posted by Allyhoo View Post
If we ever get a third faction maybe they will have an Australlian accent...I would love to listen to that all day
Australians and New Zeelanders have often been cast as Mandalorians.

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JawaJedi
Old 01.17.2012 , 07:14 PM | #58
Quote: Originally Posted by Darth_Romana View Post
Why does Hollywood always cast English actors as villians? Read newspaper article about that here.

It's because villains are harder to play, and to be that tallented you have to be British




Australians and New Zeelanders have often been cast as Mandalorians.
Actually that reminds me..two actors, I forget who...one of them was playing the bad guy, with a British accent. He was an American actor.
Another, a good guy, with an American accent...Britsih actor.
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I haven't understood anything anyone has said in this thread so far. That's common on these forums though.

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Darth_Romana
Old 01.17.2012 , 07:18 PM | #59
Quote: Originally Posted by Crito View Post
As a British person myself I can tell you that the Imperials in this game speak American English with a British Accent. It's almost as if an American wrote their dialogue for them
I know right, it sounds so wrong have a British person pronouncing a word such as 'lieutenant' the american way: 'loo-ten-ant' rather than the British: 'lef-ten-ant'. Their are far better examples than that, but I can't bring them to mind right away.

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Valyxa
Old 01.17.2012 , 07:22 PM | #60
Someone mind telling me what the female Jedi Consular accent is and if it's authentic?

I'm German and have a hard time telling american accents apart from english ones. But I did notice that she sounded somewhat strange, at least compared to the flat-out american english of the bounty hunter or the shakespeare in love english of the keeper.

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