As for accents, the Sphinxian accent is said to be crisper ... than Manticore III 1900 PD-contemporary English (which we don't know how soft & mealy-mouthed is, so that is a comparison with an unknown standard
)
The following comparisons seem "standard":
Manticore III: The Queen's English (as opposed to US same)
Aristocrats (Manti III & elsewhere): "Drawling" (US/UK examples?)
Sphinx: Crisper ... maybe US Bronx Accent-ish vs Manti III Queens English? (Sphinx' US Queens vs M III's
the Queens might be taking the joke too far
)
... albeit with both Harrington & White Haven being located in Wales, maybe a mirror-reversed Welsh accent, with the stretched bits being chipped and etc., would be more the ticket (and maybe as funny too
).
Gryphon: Scots has been suggested a number of times ... Irish might also be a possibility.
Haven (the system, not the whole polity) is going to be talking English with a francophone accent. Peeps from other places in the PRC could have other accents ... or if schools on their homeworld teach Native + French + English, with a somewhat non-French francophone note.
Similarly Andies from New Berlin would speak English with a (sometimes heavy) German note ... except that would be a German that has itself been heavily accented with the original Cantonese of the original colonists.
The lower decks would probably be very Cantonese-influenced, while the aristocratic officer corps would be far more Prussian-influenced (so a New Berlin mustang would be recognizable by accent alone)
... the schools of other Andermani Empire worlds likely teach Native + English + German (or + German + English), for a similar-but-different effect as for the PRH above.
Dca wrote:Did Lester mis-read Locke's rank, or did the costumer mess up? Both RMN crew were referred to as Lt Commander, but Locke had 2 pips while Grace had 3. Minor detail in a nice rendering, although I hope you'll use human actors for the movie.
I'm more interested in the accents. I like Tourville's French, although I can't get "dirty English knnnnn-igts" out of my mind. I had always imagined Manticore having a London accent in general, although the slow aristocratic version might be more like Charles Emerson Winchester III. (Better than a Southern accent!) Locke had a pretty ordinary American accent though, which I found jarring.
Will the Gryphons have Scottish accents? I hope so, unless you want to make up totally new accents. And what is a Sphinx accent? Irish? South African? Please not Australian! And I hope the Graysons have another distinctive accent. Texas, maybe, given their C&W preference.
and, Mangy Fur the Smart Alick Spacecat.
