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Arethinn says:
ya, listening to a sample of Yorkshire speech, i think i have got to go along with the fanon idea that Snape, if from that area (people like to set Spinner's End in northern industrial England) must have done some dialect lessons or something, a la My Fair Lady...
because sorry, that accent just doesn't go with the way his lines are written, and i can't imagine anything that "country" coming out of his mouth.
Oolon Colluphid says:
hmmm.. does muggle world accents match the magic world ones?
Arethinn says:
i suppose there's also an argument that they might not
i saw a fic which had some throwback vocabulary on the idea that wizarding language doesn't change as fast as muggle language, and what with all the latin incantations, might have retained more archaic, more latin forms of some english words
but then, that also kind of depends on your ancestry
and in the case under consideration, tobias snape was a muggle
but yeah, i've always imagined that they were just like muggle accents, since she seems to have made everything else relatively matching the modern world
also, it is lulzariffic to picture snape as undergoing the eliza doolittle treatment (even though cockney is totally not yorkshire)
alternatively, "The rain in Spain is mainly something Longbottom couldn't brew if you sent him out in a downpour with a cauldron ten feet across."
ya, listening to a sample of Yorkshire speech, i think i have got to go along with the fanon idea that Snape, if from that area (people like to set Spinner's End in northern industrial England) must have done some dialect lessons or something, a la My Fair Lady...
because sorry, that accent just doesn't go with the way his lines are written, and i can't imagine anything that "country" coming out of his mouth.
Oolon Colluphid says:
hmmm.. does muggle world accents match the magic world ones?
Arethinn says:
i suppose there's also an argument that they might not
i saw a fic which had some throwback vocabulary on the idea that wizarding language doesn't change as fast as muggle language, and what with all the latin incantations, might have retained more archaic, more latin forms of some english words
but then, that also kind of depends on your ancestry
and in the case under consideration, tobias snape was a muggle
but yeah, i've always imagined that they were just like muggle accents, since she seems to have made everything else relatively matching the modern world
also, it is lulzariffic to picture snape as undergoing the eliza doolittle treatment (even though cockney is totally not yorkshire)
alternatively, "The rain in Spain is mainly something Longbottom couldn't brew if you sent him out in a downpour with a cauldron ten feet across."