I have never heard anyone say 'howdy partner' The only three accents are ,none, nordic, and british, and do know how much programming is put in a system where npcs get pregnant, sick and age?

Agh, I hate when people say this.
Americans DO have a friggin' accent, it's called American English. So why do you all say you have none?
And I wouldn't call Nordic an accent. There is Scandinavian, Germannic and other European ones I guess that you mean. Like the guards, they're not "Nordic", they sound like Americans told to sound like Arnold.


And by the way OP, dumb joke. I can't imagine who would say something like that in the game.

The accent of the language you are speaking is always the one that is considered neutral in that language. ie french accent would be nuetral if we were talking in French. What makes American English the 'default' accent for English is that it is generally considered to be the easiest to understand. I mean, if a newscaster only reports in England, it is okay for him to talk in an English accent, but if he does world news, he has to overcome his regional dialect.

Also, when I said Nordic, I meant that general area of the world, not specifically Norway. Sorry if I didn't clarify on that.

Me neither. I said Scandinavia, if you had read my post throughoug. And Scandinavia is usually the Nordic countries.

Oh, and Iceland. Gotta remember our neighbours in the west.

American English isn't the 'default' accent for English outside of America. Both British and American newscasters use artificial neutral accents called "Received Pronunciation" and "General American", respectively. These accents aren't actually spoken by more than a small percent of the population.

Also, something to point out is that English is from England. If anything was the "neutral accent in English" it would be British. Then we can start discussing dialects, but that's for another time.
Just like the people of Oslo, Norways capital often insist they got no accent or dialect at all, just Norwegian.

Flemish native speakers have no accent.

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He's being sarcastic, people.....jeez. Some NPCs sound like lame "western" cliches. If you speak to the maids in DragonsReach you'll see.

"Ain't no one high an mighty in these parts exceptin' the jarl" or something to that effect....with a full-on American "Western" accent. It's pretty jarring.

I think some Brits might heavily object to being put away as 'regional'.

Before they get you however Id like to point out that since it is the English language, the people in England should be considered to speak with a 'neutral' accent, following your rules.

I would also like to point out that England has many English accents, as does France French.

Indeed. I'm frankly astonished that someone would describe the accent of the country of origin of a language as a "regional dialect".