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Post by jonnyboy11 on Dec 31, 2004 16:14:57 GMT -5
I know this is pretty stupid but when Olaf was disguised as Gunther did he actually speak with an accent?  'Cause he just said please over and over. He probably picked it up from Lulu as a disguise, but if he wanted to fool everyone, rather than just say please like a maniac, he could have disguised his actual voice  I mean, I know it's Olaf and all, he's not exactly the brightest star in the universe  but just a thought |
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Post by PeepMaster on Dec 31, 2004 20:06:50 GMT -5
Good point. I never thought about that.
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Post by RockSunner on Dec 31, 2004 20:25:41 GMT -5
He definitely faked an accent, too. It doesn't say so in TEE, but in TCC, p. 26:
...answered a woman in an accent the children recognized.... Olaf had disguised himself as a person who did not speak English well, and as part of his disguise, had had spoken in an accent very similar to the one they were hearing now.
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Post by Faci Moonscar on Jan 2, 2005 1:38:58 GMT -5
I've always imagined Gunther's accent to be similar to Dana Carvey's in his movie "The Master of Disguise", that, or good ol' Indian. Of course, since "Gunther" is Germanic in origin, the accent might be German.
I think it's for the reader to decide what Olaf's accent was, you know, to amuse himself (the reader, I mean).
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Post by odh on Jan 5, 2005 12:41:02 GMT -5
I hate to type-cast the country but I imagine his accent as Bulgarian, with a hint of Indian.
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Post by Uni-Brow on Jan 6, 2005 22:58:19 GMT -5
I always interpreted gunthers accent as more of a swedish one. lol, im not sure why.
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Post by Alchemist on Jan 7, 2005 4:52:26 GMT -5
I always imagined Gunther's accent to be German.
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Post by klausfan2008 on Mar 16, 2005 14:57:47 GMT -5
I figured it wuz like swedish or norwegian-ish(  ) |
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Post by Ennui on Mar 16, 2005 15:27:02 GMT -5
Geman was my vision of it. But Norse would be interesting...
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Post by Violet on Mar 16, 2005 17:16:13 GMT -5
I always imagined it to be something like Stephano in the movie.
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Post by Dian on Mar 16, 2005 21:28:25 GMT -5
I imagined it to be a German accent.
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Post by PJ on Mar 17, 2005 4:33:19 GMT -5
Geman was my vision of it. But Norse would be interesting... What he said. |
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Post by Ennui on Mar 17, 2005 9:29:42 GMT -5
If it was Norse, it would perhaps be Olaf's "native" accent...
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Post by Antenora on Mar 17, 2005 15:20:13 GMT -5
German would make sense, since "Gunther" is a German name. Derived from the Germanic elements gund "war" and heri "army, warrior". In the Germanic legend the 'Nibelungenlied', Günther was a Burgundian king and the husband of the Icelandic queen Brunhild.Source. |
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Post by PJ on Mar 17, 2005 17:26:46 GMT -5
German would make sense, since "Gunther" is a German name. Derived from the Germanic elements gund "war" and heri "army, warrior". In the Germanic legend the 'Nibelungenlied', Günther was a Burgundian king and the husband of the Icelandic queen Brunhild.Source.As far as I know...Gund doesn't mean anythign in german. heri could mean heer which means host, as in vast host of orcs maurading across the battle field. |
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'Cause he just said please over and over. He probably picked it up from Lulu as a disguise, but if he wanted to fool everyone, rather than just say please like a maniac, he could have disguised his actual voice 
I mean, I know it's Olaf and all, he's not exactly the brightest star in the universe 
but just a thought
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