Eichmann2 Posted December 6, 1999 Share Posted December 6, 1999 We are all mates on this forum, (I think!) But one thing caused me to wake in the middle of last night in a cold sweat; the forthcoming British voice wavs. Please, BTS,please, don't give us quasi- Dick Van Dyke 'cockney' rip offs, or Basil Rathbone ' English Gent' types! As a cousin from 'across the pond', that would be as unbearably unrealistic as a MP44 successfully destroying a squadron of Fireflies! Please leave the generic stereotypical English accents to Hollywood. I know you will understand my anxieties and I trust I am flapping needlessly? Best wishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullethead Posted December 6, 1999 Share Posted December 6, 1999 LOL, the accents are just the tip of the iceberg here . Think about us poor guys on the left side of the pond trying to figure out the VOCABULARY of HM's troops. If BTS did that right, everybody here would have to have a copy of Fraser's "McAuslan" series and its glossary to know what at least _some_ of the Scots soldiers were talking about . So maybe Dick Van Dyke would be a better solution { , D, RLH } -Bullethead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted December 7, 1999 Share Posted December 7, 1999 LOL, Eichmann2, 'Shtep in time, Merry Porppins!' I think your nervous anxiety (which I share)can be traced back to a certain 'other' game in your past that has become buried in your subconscious. Do the words: 'Pick up your weapon!', mean anything to you? If so just have a nice cup of tea, old chap, and everything will be fine... Mike 'Freud' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted December 7, 1999 Share Posted December 7, 1999 No, what does it for me are "Ahr enjinns are fhrozhen!" DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted December 7, 1999 Share Posted December 7, 1999 You've heard the Germans right? Well, all the other nation's voices are done the same as that.. Not, Americans trying to fake German accents badly ------------------ ___________ Fionn Kelly Manager of Historical Research, The Gamers Net - Gaming for Gamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper Posted December 7, 1999 Share Posted December 7, 1999 Every time I hear that 'pick up your weapon' from CC2, I always think it's Michael Cane.. A nice touch would be the odd Scot or Irish accent, depending on the regiment used in the battle.. Are the Canadians involved? (Under the Brits..) Ram Kanagaroos would be nice. Actually, I'm not so keen on some of the American voices, but maybe that's just me. By the way, what's wrong with a cup of tea at the battlefield? Great way to keep warm, and that's just how 7th Armored celebrated the cease-fire in the Gulf. DWH Manic Moran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Captain Foobar Posted December 8, 1999 Share Posted December 8, 1999 I think I'll code in my own wave files of Col. Klink, Cheesy voices are hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted December 8, 1999 Share Posted December 8, 1999 "SCHULTZ!!! How did this picture of Charlie Chaplin imitating der Fuhrer get on my wall?" "I know NUZZINK!" DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard III Posted December 8, 1999 Share Posted December 8, 1999 Well, I couldn't find a reference for British soldier's speech in WWII, but I did find a newspaper article featuring authentic British speech patterns in WWI. From The Onion, February 19, 1915: <h1>'Jolly Good' Brit Boys Die 'Cheerio, Can-do' Deaths</h1> <HR> <h2>GOOD SPORTS PERISH WITH DIGNITY, MANNERS</h2> <hr> With the British Armies in France --At 5 o'clock in the evening, the horizon of the Western Front glows a dull red, silhouetting Private Donald Derby, age 17, as he peers of the tops of sandbags into no-man's land. "It's over the tops for us tonight, mate," he says, sipping a hot cup of tea. "There's nothing quite like a spot of trench warfare to get your tucker up. Biscuit?" he asks, proffering a crispy shortbread.</p> Private Derby is a typical British fighting man. It's all "Right-O, old boy!" and "Can do, sir!" for these plucky doughboys. Although they emerge as barely audible squeaks, Derby still forces the words, "It was a pleasure sir, Cheerio!" as he chokes on a cloud of mustard gas later that evening.</p> Now the 7th Royal Welsh Guards are enjoying a refreshing tea, swapping merry trench tales before tonight's assault on the German position near Cambrai. "Remember the row we had last month, mates, in the woods near Grenonville? Now, that was a scrap," says one soldier. "Aye, " pipes up Private Willy Boggins, a cheeky Cockney lad of 19. "Old Brewster 'ad both 'is arms shot clean off, but 'ee kept a-runnin' right with us over the barbed wire. 'Take more than two bullets to put me down, mates!,' 'ee shouted, until 'ee took one more in the noggin. Daft old dodger, that one!"</p> [boggins is killed by a mortar fragment.]</p> The soldiers share a concerned look, then lift their tea cups to their fallen comrade. A fellow with lieutenant's shoulder-pips pops his head out of an underground bunker. "Let's tidy up the trench before a bit before we go off, boys," he says. "So much nicer to come back to, eh?" </p> I hope tea cups will be featured in CM. [This message has been edited by Richard III (edited 12-08-99).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trooper Posted December 8, 1999 Share Posted December 8, 1999 LOL... You should have a look at 'Blackadder Goes Forth' Rowan Atkinson in the WWI trenches. Be warned however, Americans don't find it funny... (Strange sense of humour they have) Manic Moran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted December 9, 1999 Share Posted December 9, 1999 The "Blackadder" series was a smashing hit here in Norway. It's only natural I guess. You Brits are mostly decendants of the vikings, so you inherited the humour from us... But I do look forward to hear Sgt. Jenkins' "Yessah! Right on, Sah!" Oh, this game is going to be so **** (if you'll pardon my french) good!!! Hawk ------------------ Our's is not to reason "why", our's is but to do and die! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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