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Dialects and accents
Posted By: protexts <protexts@cs.com>	Date: 4/6/02 12:55 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human... (NthDegree256) : Ah, but the grunts don't seem to speak with an accent. Most translators don't : attribute accents to voices, yet GS has that C3PO-British thing going : on... Grunt dialect is some American version. In phrases like "Bad cyborg" the vowel position of the /ae/ in bad is farther back like an American /ae/. Same with the /r/ in, "Their everywhere!" For some reason the battle suit translator gives the Grunts an accent that is a cross between an American and a chipmunk. As for GS, based on his use of suprasegmentals (intonational patterns across phonemic segments as opposed to phonetic patterns), I'd say his dialect is upper class American, though highly affected. Maybe old money.

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Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	fAllen	4/6/02 12:08 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	foo	4/6/02 12:39 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	NthDegree256	4/6/02 12:49 a.m.
Dialects and accents	protexts	4/6/02 12:55 p.m.
::falls over laughing::	vector40	4/6/02 4:41 p.m.
Re: ::falls over laughing::	Uriel	4/6/02 7:24 p.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	fAllen	4/6/02 12:50 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	bonk	4/6/02 1:16 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	vector40	4/6/02 1:47 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	Physalis	4/6/02 2:17 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	•Mimer	4/6/02 8:53 a.m.
Spoilers	Tarrsk	4/6/02 9:43 a.m.
Re: Spoilers	vector40	4/6/02 4:40 p.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	Surrepticius	4/6/02 3:07 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	Djoey.154	4/6/02 8:18 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	Reckless Angel	4/6/02 8:28 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	Tarrsk	4/6/02 9:38 a.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	vector40	4/6/02 4:37 p.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	Uriel	4/6/02 7:24 p.m.
Re: Of coarse the Forunner were Human...	HALOMASTER	4/6/02 9:07 p.m.
Re: Umm...	SpudBoy	4/7/02 1:18 p.m.