How to Roleplay Without Accents
How to Roleplay Without Accents
Can't do an accent? Join the club. Here's how I roleplay without them.
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I appreciate the idea behind this blog, but I think this post would have benefited from audio or video examples, because I don't find the text descriptions particularly helpful. Like, what does this even mean?
Loose voices tremble, gravel, and let words crash into each other. Tight voices keep thing neat and clipped, from chipper to brutish.
I can imagine what the author might mean by those things, but the key word there is imagine.
Didn’t think I’d ever see an article that should have been a video instead of the other way around!
totally! like it's the kind of writing that works fine for fiction because it just has to be evocative. But here, I need to know what you actually mean in terms of performance!
I don't know, I this phrasing seems quite evocative to me. Tremble means to waver in tone or power, gravel means to hoarse or growling in a low energy fashion, and words colliding means for words to flow into one another in a fluid and informal way. This all makes speech sound less confident, and less educated. Meanwhile, neat speech is formal, and clipped speech has clear start and end points to words, and so clear distinctions between neighbouring words.