G'Day, Mate.

There are strong differences in Austrian and German vocabulary, but as far as an actual Austrian accent, its hard to say. In Germany itself there are at least 30 different sub-accents, and Austrian German has 3 or 4 major groupings of dialects with several more under that.

To put it simply, though, in Vienna the accent spoken is a little bit more nasal, and there is what you might call a "Drawl", in which vowels are extended with a diphthong, and certain vowels (especially i's and e's) are transformed into o's and ah's.

Its really hard to describe without a basic knowledge of German, but you can think of the Viennese accent as similar to the Southern U.S. dialect (which I speak) in that the pronunciation is a little more relaxed than High German, and in that there are non-german influences (obviously such as Hungarian and Czech).

So, be german, but more nasally?

Wow, belay that. You HAVE to use an Australian accent when playing Austria. That would be the best thing ever. +1 ab.

Thanks, I'll try to use it.

Too bad I had to give up who I am in an anon game, but, whatever.

Crocodoyle Dundee

lol.

i love that shit.

yeah in all seriousness though it just sounds like a german accent. which is unfortunate cause germany is also on the board.

I don't know too much about Germany/the German speaking nations, re language, but IIRC a southern German accent is different to a northern German accent, which supposedly is close to standard German.

Kingdroid, not really keeping the anonymity thing going, are you? :P

Surely it would be more a stereotypical dialects rather than stereotypical accents game, given that it is over text?

We're not actually speaking German/Italian/French/Russian/Turkish in game though. It's all english, with what the stereotypical accents would sound like written out.

I am Ahnuld Schvortzeneyggeh, und I vant to feex Caleeforneeya...

;)

man, the goofier the better. play with syntax, like the order words come in. get really phonetic with it so people hear it differently in their head. i was austria in the last game that didn't quite get going. you can see my austrian here:

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yeah, i kinda went with a weird amalgamation of russian and german, adding y's before vowels after consonants (byaltic not baltic) even when it doesn't make sense (tyrolyia)

+1 abe

If you use a Australian accent instead and say "Mate throw another shrimp on the barbie" every aussie here will gut you

Yeah I know Bob G, but I think having a halfway decent accent is more in spirit than giving up only my own anonymity.

At least, I hope so.

Also, thanks for the advice, and for the example obiwan, hopefully my accent will get more fun as the game goes on.

I speak a good amount of German and have a fairly good accent, I am told. FOB, could you tell me about the Austrian accent? I find linguistics interesting.

and there are ethnic Germans in Texas who still speak German, but they do so with a Southern accent. Litterally, a American Southern accent!

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Just to say, if this was all just a way to throw people as to your identity, well played.

yeah, i am kind of curious if there are folks making a separate peace via pm