Re: [DL] new hinderance

[frempath2@netscape.net]

Its probably a good idea. I'm kinda suprised its not already there.

We often fail to take into consideration that we live in a post television, linguistically homogonized country.  Anymore you can maybe tell what region of the country the person is from, maybe, but thats about it.  There was a time, prior to widespread radiophoinic communication, when your dialect would indicate region, state, county, and in large cities neighborhood of your home. 

As a side to this, you should try reading the letters of some of the soldiers of the American Civil War.  They wrote very phoneticly and some of the dialects can really show up.  It can take a while to realize that something spelled HAWRA is HERE or SOGA is SOLDIER.

G'day
Kevin Jameson 

Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote:

>On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:08:13PM -0400, bruce boragine said:
>> 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?
>
> Well, most of it is already covered - a foreign person who grew up with
> a different language (there's your Spanish and Chinese accents taken
> care of) could take English at only 1 skill level, rather than the 2 that
> native English speakers start with.  That's how I've handled it.
>
> Asides from that, if you wanted to do somebody with a real thick hillbilly
> accent or something, maybe you could fuse the Squeaky and Tinhorn
> hindrances together somehow?
>
> Wishkah
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