Accents in Roleplay

[Sankis]

I don't mind.

Though a huge pet peeve of mine is people who use their accents in written text on the forums. Accents don't work like that!

Also keep in mind that if it oocly takes me five minutes to parse what you say my PC is probably not going to be responding very often.

[Abandoned-1]

I just want to point out that I do often use  eh in both written and spoken language. Accent can totally translate into written.

[WriterX]

Accents are fine, as long as they are not overdone or done wrongly. By overdone I mean, as an example, accents that make no sense.

I also offer kudos to people who have speech impediments and they manage to pull them off, such as the lack of a nose, brain damage, etc.

[Unholy_Master]

spanish is actually a language in forgotten realms.  I just don't remember what it's called.. So is french.. Once again I don't know what it is called.  They are regional human languages so if you know it and have a high enough intelligent score you can use them.  I think the spanish one is (Sembian) and the french is (Calishan) or something.. Also accents are awesome.  I use them all the time depending on where my characters are from, I also use different typing styles depending on my character whether they speaking haltlingly, despite poor grammar.

[A Mystery Clock]

Absolutely ok with accents. It's about as hard for players to understand them as it is to -type- them. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, and onomatopoeias are absolutely legitimate when dealing with hissing, growling, barking characters. Dialects are perfectly fine as well. Even though the characters are all supposed to speak common/undercommon they would be influenced by the accent of the various regions, have personal idiolects, use slang and so on. It is also rather realistic.

Edit:

people who use their accents in written text on the forums. Accents don't work like that!

This, however.

[Letsplayforfun]

I tend to avoid pcs with accents that just "sound" like french, spanish, german, etc. It's way to RL stuff for me and just ruins the UD feeling. I understand it's how people try to personnalize their pcs, but it's just not my thing. Like, really not.

[Pup]

As long as someone types his or her dialog as if I was reading a book or play, I'm happy.  When it fails is when someone tries to represent an accent but doesn't know how to use apostrophes.  Apostrophes are key in representing missing letters in literature.  If I have to read a statement twice, you're going to lose me and I probably will avoid interaction.

On the other side, many players do a very readable accent.  Groa's thick dwarven accent is readable because Diz-e generally types in a literary way.  As if she was putting words to print.

Type as if you are writing a book or a play.  If you lack the grammatical skill to represent an accent, avoid them.