I need a man! (A Dunwich man)

[JulieH]

I stand corrected...

[Bob Lovecraft]

Yeah, but those were all Yankees. Those people really can't be trusted to have good taste.

Bob

[osyrisdiamond]

I guess it's impossible to say since we don't know where Henry Armitage grew up, but I always thought of him as an Arkham rather than a Dunwich man.

[JulieH]

Good call! 

Definitely Arkham.  "Dunwich" in the subject line gets more attention, though.

[Bob Lovecraft]

You know, JulieH, I had a thought about your accent problem this morning on the way to the office. I'm from south Louisiana IRL, and most people I meet are amazed by that, as I have little to no accent at all. This is something I've worked on my whole life so as not to sound like a semi-retarded, inbred, bayou moron. This is not saying your typical Louisianian IS a semi-retarded, inbred, bayou moron, just what the perception is when you hear a thick regional accent from that area. That having been said, it occurred to me that Armitage, being an old academic type, may very well have spent years canceling out his accent, even if just subconsciously, in order to be taken more serious by his academic peers. Look at the perception of the time and tell me that someone with a thick regional dialect of any sort would have made any headway in academia in the late 19th/early 20th century. I don't think you can. Therefore, I don't think you need to focus so much on the accent when casting Armitage, but more on the sophisticated, educated tone of voice. If your voice actor is able to slip a little accent in from time to time, particularly when Armitage is stressed out (as that tends to be when people revert back to early speech patterns), then all the better.

Just something to think about, perhaps.

Bob

[Genus Unknown]

I guess it's impossible to say since we don't know where Henry Armitage grew up, but I always thought of him as an Arkham rather than a Dunwich man.

Plot twist! Armitage was actually a Whateley all along. While initially horrified by the discovery, he comes to accept his ancestry as he starts having vivid dreams of summoning Yog-Sothoth...

[JulieH]

Bob - Not a bad idea, but for variation in voices and proper representation of an HPL character, I really want the accent.  If someone showed up who could sound 73 years old,though, and was nuanced enough to bring the accent in and out - I would run with it.

As it stands, Morgan has very plain american accent, and Rice a slightly continental one (Warren from the Lovecraft 5), so I really want Armitage to round out the group with a proper accent. 

I'm stubborn as hell, too.

But I might have a nibble.  So keep your fingers crossed.

[Bob Lovecraft]

Well kick ass, JulieH. I hope the nibble pans out. I can't wait to hear this production.

Bob

[TheMediocreYoungishOne -Tom-]

Armitage might have a Boston Brahman accent as well (the hoity-toity sounding accent of the "upper class" Bostonians of yesteryear).

[fishy]

I'm from south Louisiana IRL, and most people I meet are amazed by that, as I have little to no accent at all. This is something I've worked on my whole life so as not to sound like a semi-retarded, inbred, bayou moron.

You shold be proud of your accent, and embrace it.

I myself speak with a VERY local accent/dialect, and i do so with pride. It is part of my heritage, thus a part of me.

But, to each his own....

[TheMediocreYoungishOne -Tom-]

You shold be proud of your accent, and embrace it.

I myself speak with a VERY local accent/dialect, and i do so with pride. It is part of my heritage, thus a part of me.

\m/

[JulieH]

Up here in seattle, we don't have any accent.  i know everyone thinks their own accent is "no accent" but there was as reason why, for years, many newscasters come from the pacific northwest - we just sound so damn neutral.

[osyrisdiamond]

Up here in seattle, we don't have any accent.  i know everyone thinks their own accent is "no accent" but there was as reason why, for years, many newscasters come from the pacific northwest - we just sound so damn neutral.

This is true, as someone who lives between Seattle and Tacoma. In fact, I grew up in San Diego and frankly I can't tell the difference between most of the west coast. Now, my mom is from here originally so that may have something to do with it, but on the whole this side of the continent is rather homogenous in terms of vocals.

[Bob Lovecraft]

I'm from south Louisiana IRL, and most people I meet are amazed by that, as I have little to no accent at all. This is something I've worked on my whole life so as not to sound like a semi-retarded, inbred, bayou moron.

You shold be proud of your accent, and embrace it.

I myself speak with a VERY local accent/dialect, and i do so with pride. It is part of my heritage, thus a part of me.

But, to each his own....

Trust me, when you come from an area where your average citizen sees no problem with a 16 year old dating (ie. sleeping with) her father's 30 year old buddy, with her parents' permission of course, then it might cast things in a bit of a different light, and distancing yourself from those kinds of associations is a good thing. And let's not put too fine a point on this, south Louisiana is, in many, many respects, the armpit of the nation. People who celebrate ignorance and deify jingoism are, to me at least, not worth immulting.

Bob

[JulieH]

And.....  We're back to Dunwich.
LOL
It's those "signs of wholesale regional decadence", in't it?