Since some folks have had some difficulties in catching onto the Dialects younger drekir tend to speak in the dragonscape I decided to start making a sort of informational matter to consolidate information on the Owyhee Dialect. I have chosen the Owyhee Dialect due to where Oli is in the comic as this dialect is the common, mostly shared dialect between the various peoples of the Northern Owyhee Plains, Deserts, Canyonlands and Steppes.
This of course doesn't cover all of the vocab and in many cases in the comic parts of these words have been thrown out or dumbed down to ensure the audience can read the comic without necessarily needing to have a good understanding of Owyhee talk. There are likewise shifts region to region and sometimes within a culture that create very mild variations. So some words you may not be familiar with here, some words that you may of read in the comic may not be here as I figured they were straightforward enough (Tomar as an example) and whatnot.
Next one will cover The main shift in grammar rules in this dialect, the huge application and expansion of Suffixes
Raiyi, don'yer whiff the morls, but do whiff the fols. Eye yer Hikers hikin roundyern lik the purl longtail, ferwel er do gud.
This of course doesn't cover all of the vocab and in many cases in the comic parts of these words have been thrown out or dumbed down to ensure the audience can read the comic without necessarily needing to have a good understanding of Owyhee talk. There are likewise shifts region to region and sometimes within a culture that create very mild variations. So some words you may not be familiar with here, some words that you may of read in the comic may not be here as I figured they were straightforward enough (Tomar as an example) and whatnot.
Next one will cover The main shift in grammar rules in this dialect, the huge application and expansion of Suffixes
Raiyi, don'yer whiff the morls, but do whiff the fols. Eye yer Hikers hikin roundyern lik the purl longtail, ferwel er do gud.
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...Having lived several areas of the American South and American Midwest I'm a little boggled at the fact that I do understand a fair bit of this. It helps a lot if you read it out loud under your breath.
"Af" (which I don't see here) was the thing that threw me the hardest. Sometimes it was used like 'of,' other times...Yeah.
"Af" (which I don't see here) was the thing that threw me the hardest. Sometimes it was used like 'of,' other times...Yeah.
This particular accent is mostly inspired from the rural deserts of the Pacific Northwest (Where I grew up! southern Idaho, eastern Oregon, southeastern Washington) Though especially the rural PNW accent tends to sound a lot like those found in Montana, Utah and Wyoming as there is a bit less English dialect variety in the West than the East generally speaking (not to say there isn't some weird dialects here in the West).
I do always tell people to read it out loud, seems to help a lot for those struggling to read through it.
Af can mean a couple of things yeah, can be "Of" or "To" or "From", and can also just be a filler word (like yeah or yaknow). It's one of those words like Pués or Po that I've heard a lot in spanish or "Right" or "yeah" in English, does a lot of stuff
I do always tell people to read it out loud, seems to help a lot for those struggling to read through it.
Af can mean a couple of things yeah, can be "Of" or "To" or "From", and can also just be a filler word (like yeah or yaknow). It's one of those words like Pués or Po that I've heard a lot in spanish or "Right" or "yeah" in English, does a lot of stuff
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