Do you accent?

[coleenr]

I'd like to use an accent and talk the way a rennie should, but I don't feel confident enough for that just yet.

[Charlotte Rowan]

I usually use a bit of a faire accent when hawking and kind of start out conversations in it, but a lot of times I slip out of it as a conversation progresses. I've kind of started to give up on it a bit the last couple of years, especially cause I am horrible at talking like a pirate.

[Serenity]

I'll second that.  My attempts at an accent are terrible, especially since the only time I get the guts to attempt it is when I've had too much to drink 

I may start with a nice "Good Morrow", but it quickly dissolves into regular speech.

[clark]

I usually use a bit of a faire accent when hawking and kind of start out conversations in it, but a lot of times I slip out of it as a conversation progresses. I've kind of started to give up on it a bit the last couple of years, especially cause I am horrible at talking like a pirate.

I have the opposite problem, I'll be going on with a conversation and suddenly find that I am speaking in an accent that can be passed off as English. Mind you this is in my regular life seeing as how it's very hard to do an accent when you are too shy to talk to anyone at faire.

[Khaalis]

I'm another that tends to start out using accent then slip into normal speech if its a drawn out conversation. Especially since I switch accesnts depending upon attire theme (Italian noble, Scottish, Gypsy (slavic), or Pirate [which is still mostly Scottish sounding]).

[DonaCatalina]

My Spanish accent puzzles a lot of people so I tend not to use it.
They don't understand why I don't sound like a Mexican.

[ArielCallista]

I've tried...and failed. I just can't keep it up...I'll come across something I want to say and just won't be able to figure out how it would work in an accent so i give up. I have discovered I speak differently tho...normally when I speak i'm loud obnoxious and don't sound very feminine at all...but I tend to kind of drift into this airy voice (think luna lovegood for you harry potter fans)...maybe thats just what I sound like when I'm happy....hrm

[fortryllelsestudios]

me=wallflower

I have a funny story about why I dont, for one thing Im from MinnesOOOOOta.  That combined with anything is just wrong, matter of fact its wrong on its own eh?

Anyhoo, I was attending a riding school north of london in Hertfordshire in the early 90's when I hurt my back really badly.  My friend David spent forever trying to make me sound british so I could take advantage of their free healthcare system.  I repeated the word Cornwall about a thousand times and "I can't Im smoking a fag"  Which is very silly in retrospect because had I tried to visit the doctor in cognito I doubt I would have occasion to use the word Cornwall, OR to mention that I was smoking a fag.  (which is not a derogatory term, it just means cigarrette across the pond in case someone didnt know that)

I also dont hawk.  I need someone who does that....

[kulrath Bane (Dragon Slayer AZ)]

I no,  As I am not able to pull off an accent I try not to.  I am a mercenary so I am loud and put  more gruffness in my voice insomuch that by the end of the day my voice is almost gone. 

[Rikki the Trickster]

I would love to use a proper accent at faire, but not only can't I decide on one... I've noticed that I tend to start mimicking (rather badly I'm afraid) the accent of whomever I'm talking to. Other than that, my excuse for lack of a proper accent? The speech classes I went through in school to talk like a normal Texan, not like a northerner. 

[Ken]

I used to use an English accent, which I developed as a youngster by watching countless hours of BBC television documentaries and old Tarzan movies.  Then, when I developed a French cavalier persona, I began using a light French accent, aided by the fact that I took two years of French language in school.  Now, I don't really use an accent so much as I simply articulate my words a little more precisely and speak more as though I were delivering lines on stage, which in a way I am.  Not stilted, but just...more from the diaphragm than I do in day-to-day speaking.

However...

I have been thinking that I would like to start developing an accent again and using it, at least at the beginning and towards the end of a conversation with faire patrons, if not also in the middle.  The one I'd like to develop, though, is more of an Scots and Irish accent.  Hmmm...I think that might merit a thread of it's own....

~Ken

[LadyFae]

My accent comes and goes!  Overall, no I don't, though.  It tends to depend on who I'm speaking with- if they speak in accent than I do as well, if they don't I tend not to either.  When I was pregnant with my second daughter I was asked what I was having quite often- I had a prepared speech about a soothesayer predicting another girl-child within my womb and blah blah blah, yeah, that got old really quickly!  Of course so did the "M'lady!  Didst you swallow a watermelon?"  "Oh no," I'd say, "Just merely the seed!"

[Seleyna Eirian]

I've noticed that I tend not to for the most part, when I do however, its almost a faint French accent... at least that's what I was told I sounded like at TRF. When I go to play, not so much, unless they are speaking to me in accent. I'm not too confident in it yet. I always have this feeling that it sounds forced and cruddy. Of course, living in a house full of rennies, there are nights when all of us slip into accent without meaning too... and it lasts for some time too

[Lady Rebecca]

I want to accent, but I can't decide which one I should use. I don't really have a "faire persona" yet - no name, or background or anything like that. And as soon as I get a sewing machine, I'll be making myself new garb, too. I think with my current garb, a Scottish accent would work best, but I don't feel confident in it yet. So then it's sort of between RP and cockney, but I'm middle class-ish.

And when I go with friends to the faire, I try to get them to accent with me, but then no one ever wants to, so I feel awkward.

So all in all, I'm just confused and undecided. Someone tell me what to do!

[tiberiusflynn]

I can do any British Isles accent (apparently when I worked at TRF my scottish was perfect enough to fool a Scottish lady). No matter what, if I'm in my pirate garb I accent in a Northern English/watered down scots. No middle english though.....but my pirates set in the 1750's...so it doesn't have to be too antiquated.