deltarune
it is good characterization that rouxls speaks in nonsense early modern english, to really drive the point home that he’s a complete poser. but god did it make me hate him when he was introduced lmao
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re: deltarune
@aescling Can you yourself speak and write early modern English, or only read it?
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re: deltarune
@vaporeon_ my accent would be terrible, i only kind of know the phonology, and i don’t know how the meanings of words have changed well enough that i would purrobably say something anachronistic or nonsensical given the meaning of the words at the time. but, like, the basics of the grammar, i can do
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@vaporeon_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English#Grammar really you just need to learn how pronouns and verbs inflect and then you’re 80% of the way there. the rest is knowing how vocabulary has changed
(and if you’re a real nerd, how the phonology (that is, what the sounds is the language sound like) have changed. though as a shorthand the vowels and diphthongs are fairly close to IPA; it might come off as stereotypically Irish or Scottish, if you’re familiar with those accents. Hollywood pirate speak is not that far off)