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[Number4]

Actually I'd rather be there because the country was neutral, but if I could get my hands on some gold I would not object

[Cespinarve]

Actually I'd rather be there because the country was neutral, but if I could get my hands on some gold I would not object

Give the provenance of some of that gold, I really wouldn't be too eager, if I was you.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Being most familiar with the South Yorkshire coalfields (of times past, THAAAAATTTTCCCHHHHHHHEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!) one of the (many[1]) places where people regularly used to go underground and dig tunnels, I suppose I tend to put a Barnsley accent on them, personally.


[1] Durham, South Wales, the area around Coalbrookdale (surprisingly!) are others in the UK, with Pittsburgh entering my consciousness as the most obvious Left Pondian example, and beyond coal there's the like of the eponymouslt known Kimberley deposits in ZA, and I suspect Chile (as a whole, because, to be honest, I have very little subregional knowledge of that country) has been very recently associated with miners, also, but I bet any attempt to try a Chilean accent would be as close to Mexican as anywhere else...

All my dwarves are from barnsley too!

[Number4]

Give the provenance of some of that gold, I really wouldn't be too eager, if I was you.

Well, it's not like I'm able to help the orginal owners - they're dead. And the other owners I'd happily steal from, but they are also dead or in hiding. So in this hypothetical situation it's me or the swiss banks and I'd prefer me then...

Hm, gives me a thought: Dwarven Bankers? We're kinda passionate about gold already. And the accent and everyone having a assault rifle silver warhammer below the pillow could also be dwarfy.

[Cespinarve]

Give the provenance of some of that gold, I really wouldn't be too eager, if I was you.

Well, it's not like I'm able to help the orginal owners - they're dead. And the other owners I'd happily steal from, but they are also dead or in hiding. So in this hypothetical situation it's me or the swiss banks and I'd prefer me then...

Hm, gives me a thought: Dwarven Bankers? We're kinda passionate about gold already. And the accent and everyone having a assault rifle silver warhammer below the pillow could also be dwarfy.

Scotish Accents -> The Implied Acceptance of Murdered Jews' Teeth Fillings -> Dwarven Bankers -> Dwarven Bankers Who Are Apparently Mobsters.

Oh Bay 12. Never change.

[Dent]

This is the first time I've ever heard anyone suggest that Southern California Accents create a good baseline for "neutral"

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Depends. Valley Girl is no joke and it's surprising how many people actually speak that way, but otherwise people don't have an accent. More accurately, they have a neutral way of speaking that's more of a void than an accent on its own. Unless they're dirty foreigners.

[Darkmere]

I thought the general non-accent accent was Iowa?

[sockless]

The non-accent accent is RP. Everyone has an accent, it's just that you get used to one or another. I don't think that New Zealanders have an accent, but when I compare them to Americans, they have one, but so do the Americans.

[Cespinarve]

We all have, in our own heads, a "baseline" accent- not just what you grew up hearing from locals, but a mixture of radio, TV, movies and other things. Plenty of people, reading, prefer the cultured tones of, say, Patrick Stewart, as opposed to whatever nasal twang they're surrounded with normally.