Do you accent?

[Cobaltblu]

I do when it comes easy to me.

I mainly try to phrase sentences a little out of the normal to sound different than modern english.

You always convey your meaning better and faster doing what comes natural to you...and conveyance is much more important than accent.

Regards,

CB

[Master James]

Yes I use an accent while at faire but it depends on who I am as to which accent I use.  I am a Baron most of the time so I speak with a noble class accent.  Being on cast at VARF, its a requirement.  When I put on my garb I just drop into it.  I almost can't help it.    I also use a pirate accent although pretty light one when dressed as a pirate.  If I dress in M'Crack garb I'll sometimes try an Irish accent but it winds up sounding more Scottish (and bad Scottish at that) so I usually give up.  I'll keep working on it though.

[Trillium]

I don't bother beyond basic greetings.  I'm horrible at it and spend most of my time chasing my 5 y.o. pirate anyway.  Luckily, be fae most of the time, an accent is not really expected!

[Luciana]

Just basic old english, even that not too much. But my native accent is so thick that sounds exotic anyway.

[Captain Cornelius Howard Duckman]

Generally, i pick up whatever accent is being used near me.

[knarlyknot]

I do too, sealclubber!  I find that whatever accent is in the tent at the time I pick up, whether it's Scottish, Old English, Pirate or Gypsy.  Other than that I just try my best not to sound like I'm from Texas!

[Dayna]

Yes, always when in garb.  I have an advantage in having been raised for the first few years of my life by my Welsh grandparents, and having been given over 2 years of speech therapy once I started school, in order to teach me how to talk like an American mid-westerner.

I also have an ear for accents, so I tend to fall into the patterns of those around me, which means when I run into a Brit, it mutates rather quickly.

Dayna

[Var Greyshadow]

As a kid, I learned how to do a pretty good English accent from watching too much PBS and Dr. Who.  I've managed to keep it some.  I actually fooled some people at Dickens once, but at faire, I tend to lay it on a little too thick.  I do try and will keep trying. 

Lawrence does a good Scottish accent and has an excellent English one, if his persona ever allows.

[Welsh Wench]

No, but I giggle in French.

And Scotsman, I've heard that accent. When you were talking to Mad Jack. 

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

I try to do a very proper English accent, but I can do Cockney very easily. Once had a guy from England tell me I did a damn good English accent with a twinge of Scottish thrown in. He was quite impressed. I'd love to do a French Accent but HAY forget that idea... me French? Yeah right

[Noble Dreg]

No -my accent sounds forced and unnatural.

Me too!

To be truthful, no slam to the general performing populations, I find most ren-actors speak with a forced accent.  I find the "fair" accent DB spoke of much more "real".  When I hear a bad accent it takes me away from the "play" and I find myself thinking "What does this guy do in his day job?".  But if the costume is there, and the actor has a "playful mood", I find a "fair" accent does nothing to detract from the experience.

[Sonata]

I can do a passable rendition of a few different accents ('generic' british, My-Fair-Lady Cockney, 'hollywood Irish'), but I can't hold one for long without really concentrating. Usually I find that just being careful with my diction, trying to lessen the Texas drawl, and using slightly more formal 'King James version' language is sufficient.

[Lady Neysa]

I've never been able to speak with a faire accent.  I always sound like a dork when I try, so I gave up years ago. 

[Katie Bookwench]

I started in my early teens catching late night Monty Python... so when I started working at fair, I was already armed with a BFA.

Fast forward 20 years, and I can fool some Brits, but not every one of them. At this point, I don't even have to concentrate on whether I'm in accent or not.

But in the past couple of years I've been trying to incorporate a Northern Irish accent into my BFA - I fell in love with the dipthongs and a lot of the vowel sounds of the Northern (or, Ulster, if you will) dialect.

So it's repeated watchings of 'Divorcing Jack' and listening really close to Barry Fitzgerald from Ghost Hunters International for me (BTW, if you've never seen Divorcing Jack, give it a shot... it's a bit like Boondock Saints, dirty and gritty, and not very nice, but a good story).

It's coming along... I can do pretty much all the four letter words quite well. 

[Jack Daw at Work]

I don't bother...everytime I have tried accent, it ends up sounding a little bit Scottish with a Texas twang...to funny to be authentic, so I gave up 

Like, "Hout mon, ya'll"?  This would me, too, I think.