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ok.. here is a hinderance, that i think ties in
well with the game..
call it, accent/speech impedament. 1-3.
at 1 the person has an accent that's different and therefore tough to
understand. lack of foramlized education, or just from a different area. to have
accent at 3, you'd have ta be a ferener. like a bad cockney accent[naut
bloddy' likly'], hard oriental, or spanish acent, of cajun' to a westerner or
notherner. especially where the speaker isn't fluent the the spoken
language. picture 'boomhower' from king of the hill, jackie chan, from
rush hour, [do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth]..we all
know the jokes about people and their pronouncation of different
words. would be tunn under stress to understand him saying
run, there's a horde of zombies in the other room, and not hun, theres a whore
from sompy in the other room.
speaking from personal experience, as a yankee, who
moved to the south, at a young age.. i had trouble with understanding some
people, and being understood also.. it would lend well in deadlands to being
ridiculed, and have negative modifiers to persusaion and overawe.
also speech impediments.. like stuttering. 'what he
say?" like mel tillis or jim nabors [gomer pyle] i went to school
with a guy who had to put his hand in front of his mouth to speak, to block the
spittle and 'pull the words out' of his mouth. my wife knew a guy in
college who could only speak understandably with a pen or pencil in the corner
of his mouth..
i can't see how these weren't in the game.. or did
the u big guys think there were enough or too many already? between the
cell phone comericials, and playing on daoc and spekkin' lik a trollie, these
hinderances just occured to me.
thx.
MARSHALL KT
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