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Who is the guy with an English accent in the cell at Demonreach?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 04, 2018, 03:36:06 PM ---Well, because Dresden doesn't speak old welsh. ;)
More seriously in my admittedly twisted reasoning, it places his origin, the UK. He also uses the phrase, "Go away, boy." And if my mind hasn't completely failed me, Ebenezer uses similar syntax a couple of times. As in this example from Changes. And Ebenezer's diaries and those of the Master's in his line, begin with Merlin, don't they?
It's thin, and I'm open to other alternatives.Can you point me at any?I could have sworn that in my audible copy, James Marsters was reading. Who knew?
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it was recorded again with Masters when he was available again. There are two different recordings of Ghost Story in circulation.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 04, 2018, 10:54:28 AM ---The original merlin spoke old welsh, why would he have a english accent?
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For the same reason Rashid speaks English.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: groinkick on July 04, 2018, 06:02:29 PM ---For the same reason Rashid speaks English.
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Current welsh have a different accent when they speak english. And why would he take the effort of learning the accent? The language is usefull but...
To have an english accent that must mean that he was free until pretty, recently and spent some time with english speakers. He must have been locked up pretty recently because even english from a few centuries ago would have sounded differently.
Unless there is some magic at play here. He does not speak an understandable language at all and the translation magic chose the accent because it was fitting.
peregrine:
In much the same way that Harry is getting words from other monsters, threats, blandishments, etc... I'm pretty confident it's a magic translation thing.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 04, 2018, 06:42:27 PM ---Current welsh have a different accent when they speak english. And why would he take the effort of learning the accent? The language is usefull but...
To have an english accent that must mean that he was free until pretty, recently and spent some time with english speakers. He must have been locked up pretty recently because even english from a few centuries ago would have sounded differently.
Unless there is some magic at play here. He does not speak an understandable language at all and the translation magic chose the accent because it was fitting.
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Whoever spoke to Harry did so telepathically. Someone like that may simply have scanned Harry's mind, and just got the point across via thought, and Harry's mind decoded it into understandable words.
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