MU Peeves Thread
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@Pavel Right. The reason that, for example, Auld Lang Syne has so many strange words in it that it’s not in English. It’s in Scots.
And well, a Scottish person jabbering away in Scots is going to be virtually unintelligible to most people. So you might as well just write <Scots intensifies>, or at least outright emit that <you probably wouldn’t understand but a word being said here> so people don’t feel the need to try to parse it.
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Y’all got me. It’s not that I hate typed out dialect, it’s that I hate Scots and I’m an unread bumpkin.
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@Polk There’s also the consideration that some folks can parse it rather easily, either natively or through exposure; therefore they simply don’t know that others can’t. So it’s not intended to be annoying, it’s just how they or people around them use language. So tell them.
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@Pavel Absolutely right. Assume the best, and you often get just that.
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@Snackness Naw, you hate typed out dialect. You’re allowed.
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@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:
(At fifteen I was convinced only 100% strict “proper” English was correct. At fifteen I was an asshole.)
Did you have a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” with the panda stickers in the back to put on typos? I had a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” with the panda stickers in the back to put on typos.
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@GF said in MU Peeves Thread:
@Cobalt said in MU Peeves Thread:
(At fifteen I was convinced only 100% strict “proper” English was correct. At fifteen I was an asshole.)
Did you have a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” with the panda stickers in the back to put on typos? I had a copy of “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” with the panda stickers in the back to put on typos.
I had a copy of the book, and my parents still make comments and jokes about my grammar strictness, in the way that parents do when they don’t know you’ve outgrown a part of your childhood because you now understand the classist and racist nature of strict grammar adherence wait where are you going I’m not done with explaining–
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@Roz Your wording of your post made me notice that no one in this thread has said “grammar Nazi” and that makes me very happy.
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@GF Yeah, I also grew out of that one years back.
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I doubt anyone who types out dialect is doing it because they intend to be annoying, they’re just succeeding at being annoying.
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When people type ‘viscous’ when they mean ‘vicious’ I find it interferes with my immersion.
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@Gashlycrumb But it’s much easier to immerse yourself in something viscous than something vicious.
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@Roadspike This is the problem with the viscous attacks. I’m immersed, in the wrong way.
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@Pavel So my wife told me about her worst day at work ever, when a young kid came into the ER with constipation, and the doc ordered a milk and molasses enema.
Apparently it was like that scene from Daddy Daycare. You know the one.
And yes, I created an account just to make this comment.
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While this probably is meant for the RL peeves thread. I can only hope she was not the one that had to clean up.
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@Pavel said in MU Peeves Thread:
I will say that lots of what people are picking out as accents, like cannae and dinnae etc aren’t actually just accents, they’re elements of Scots. A language (or dialect, depending on your definition) all its own.
Agreed. But that kind of supports the point - we’re RPing in English. I neither speak nor understand written Scots. Just as no one should start writing all of their dialogue in Italian.
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@farfalla People do look at me funny when my Danish character starts ranting to himself in Danish.
But then, I don’t expect them to understand it and respond to it, either.
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@Gashlycrumb That person is such a rouge.
Because every MU* char is a type of makeup rather than a rogue.
(Since you brought up things that mess with immersion.)
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@farfalla We have a word for this: Oirish.
And it’s terrible in text, but you also get bad accents in voice acting, and my spouse and I use it for that as well.
“What sort of accent is she supposed to be doing here?”
“Uh, I think French? It’s Oirish-French.”