History Main / FunetikAksent

** Dwarves have thick Scottish accents and vocabulary because OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' was the first and most noticeable example, but later re-releases and their given translations for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' would give the underground dwarves similar dialogue (The original Super Nintendo translation was pretty cut and dry.)
** The Bangaas from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2''.
** The Cockatrices' heavy accents in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''.
** The Italian translators of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' did a great job of giving many {{Non Player Character}}s different Italian dialects or foreign accents that fit the character's personality. Baku (Tantalus' The Boss) has a Sicilian accent, Cinna a Roman one, Marcus speaks with a thick German accent and so on.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** The DS remake of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' added this to the new English translation. For example, in the first town, the people speak with thick Scottish accents.
** This has been the case with all localizations since ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII''.
* In ''VideoGame/UrbanDead'', the zombies are limited to only a handful of letters, meaning the language invented by creative players is entirely phonetic. For example, "zombie" is spelled "zambah" and human is spelled "harman".

** O' Chunks from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' talks like this, as do the people with French and German accents. Even better is the female chef at ''Hot Fraun'', who speaks with a very heavy German accent.
** Several instances in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', such as Antasma's VampireVords, Broque Monsieur and Broque Madame's GratuitousFrench (which returns from the previous game) and the Massif Bros' Russian accents.

* The German Lieselotte Achenbach of ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' uses this together with the occasional GratuitousGerman when she speaks.
* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'', Tink's French accent is rendered phonetically.

* Salvatore, the owner of the "Sinking Ships" minigame on Windfall Island in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', speaks with a mix of German and French, accent replacing all W's with V's and laughing like "honh honh honh".
* In ''VideoGame/{{Deathsmiles}}'', Casper (a German) and Follett (a Frenchwoman) and their {{familiar}}s have their dialogue written with accents and [[GratuitousGerman occasional]] [[GratuitousFrench foreign words]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has Bebe, a foreign exchange student who speaks with a French accent. He also throws in GratuitousJapanese, which makes for very confusing dialogue.
* The accented English used by the advisers and announcer in ''VideoGame/TotalWarShogun2'' can come across as this (a noteworthy example being "[[MemeticMutation OUR MEN ARR RANNING FROM ZA BATTELFIELD! SHAMFUR DISPRAY!]]"), although units themselves speak entirely in Japanese. By the ''Fall of the Samurai'' expansion DLC, however, ''everyone'' is given this treatment with the exception of the Foreign Veterans.
* For ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', one student at Thors Military Academy, Becky, has her dialogue written down like this to show off a Scottish accent. Pablo, a character who appears in the third and fourth game, also has his dialogue written like this.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' does this with the dwarves (Scottish, [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame of course]]) with very few exceptions. For draenei (Eastern European) and trolls (Jamaican), though, whether their accents are written or not seems to change on a case-by-case basis.
* In ''VideoGame/Mother3'', you meet a pair of mice with atrociously thick cockney accents. Good luck understanding more than two words of their dialogue.
* Erutus Profiteur from ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' speaks with a French accent.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' parodies this with the Gnomes. Many of them replace every instance of "N" with "GN" (such as "Hello agaign, Advegnturer") which looks strange but, if read out loud, [[SubvertedTrope does not change the pronunciation at all]] (because the "G" in "GN" is silent).
* ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsTrioOfTowns'' has this in spades. Westown residents have a very thick Texas drawl with stereotypical words and phrases thrown about, but some Tsuyukusa residents like Ginjiro also have a milder version as a localization choice. The result is that Westown sounds like [[TheThemeParkVersion Hollywood Texas]], but Tsuyukusa sounds like ''actual'' Texas.
* In ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', members of the Plinkman family have an OopNorth accent, rendered phonetically. Likewise, the Irish accent of the spectral OfficerOHara character Officer Ghouley.
* In ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'', the Bard encounters a man named [=MacRath=] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTRz8L6hco a nigh indecipherable Scottish accent,]] in a game already filled with characters that have fairly thick regional British accents. [=MacRath's=] subtitles retain the phonetic spelling of his words, while everyone elses' are spelled out properly.
-->'''The Bard:''' You've got to help me here. I can't understand a bleedin' word he's saying. Is this even [=MacRath=]?\\
'''Dugan:''' What do you mean? Of course that's [=MacRath=].\\
'''The Bard:''' Ask him a question.\\
'''Dugan:''' Hello there, old friend. How are you gettin' along with this young scamp?\\
'''[=MacRath=]:''' Och braw, Dugan, braw tae see ye an aw. Thes bonnie lad haur saved mah hide frae tha nuckelavee 'at some trosk released.[[note]]Oh, good, Dugan, good to see you and all. This fine young lad rescued me from the [[HellishHorse Nuckelavee]] that some fool released.[[/note]]

* Some of the characters in ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' have this: Most notably, the Hermit and Fred the Troll in the first game (the former 'aving all of 'is initial h's replaced with apostrophes, and the latter having a distinct pronunciation of "hide and go seek" that you have to mimic to convince him to move away from the entrance to his lair), and the castle guards in the fourth game (who, for example, pronounce "other side of the castle" as "odder side o' da castle.")
* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': Via Lyt, one of the Lords that Eryk can ally with. She's so liberal with her pronounciation that the large majority of the peasants that come through the throne room are more articulate than she is. And even among the peasants, the only one who comes anywhere close to Via Lyt is a man who shows up drunk.

[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] refers to Funetik Aksents as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_respelling#Literary_dialect "literary dialects."]]

* A minor scandal emerged in 2020 when it was revealed over 20,000 articles of Scots Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} was just written in English with a stereotypically Scottish accent by a teenager [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer who had almost no knowledge of the language]].

Not to be confused with XtremeKoolLetterz, which is about deliberately switching letters to make a word fancy.

* Similarly, the Music/IronButterfly classic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (supposedly the "stoner" pronunciation of "In the Garden of Eden").

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* One player on the Champions Online presents all his posts in capital letters and phonetic spelling in the manner of, say, the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk as said poster is more or less always acting in character (or presenting said persona). It manages to be both a good example of why it's the trope can be good and bad. It's good because it is certainly very character-forming. It's bad because otherwise intelligent and sensible points can be lost when it takes 15 minutes to translate a short paragraph.

* Some tropes on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki are this, such as VampireVords and TheAhnold.

* Until well into UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, this was pretty standard for foreign or immigrant characters of any kind, even if they were heroes. Take Mademoiselle Marie, a [[LaResistance French Resistance fighter]] in a series of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII adventures put out by DC in the 1950s. Marie was an ActionGirl and looked every bit the part with her tight skirt, [[SweaterGirl even tighter sweater]], [[NiceHat bright red beret]], and Sten gun - but all this was undercut somewhat because the letterer insisted on writing ''all'' of her lines as if they were being spoken by Pepe Le Pew.

* ''Webcomic/{{EVIL}}'' does this with Kahn's cockney accent, as well as Professor Murderstein's German accent.

* In Yen Press's English translation of the ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' manga, Osaka's KansaiRegionalDialect is [[AccentAdaptation adapted]] as a Southern accent written this way. Most obviously, she uses "Ah" and "mah" rather than "I" and "my".

* In the English translation of the ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' manga, Osaka's Southern dialect is clearly visible when she speaks. Most notably, her use of "Ah" rather than "I".

** Music/PaulMcCartney's thick Scouse accent is taken to UpToEleven:

-->'''Monterey Jack''': Croikey, Gadget-luv! Remoinds me o' th' toime when...

** ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Jaeger's German accent is spelled out on the page to make it clear he's not a Gotham native even before any of his background is disclosed.

* For ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'', one student at Thors Military Academy, Becky, has her dialogue written down like this to show off a Scottish accent.

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** Trolls, whether because [[AllTrollsAreDifferent their rock bodies can't finesse the letters]] or because they're not very intelligent as a rule, are usually depicted with an inability to pronounce "th" sounds, usually replacing them with "d" (e.g. saying "der", "dis" and "dat" instead of "the", "this" and "that".)

* In ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'', [[HerrDoktor Doctor Sigma]]'s dialogue writes out his comedy Austrian accent, with Vs standing in for Ws, Ds for THs, and so on.
* John Buchan in his Richard Hannay novels depicts Scottish accents phonetically, and with sufficient faithfulness that several different accents can be distinguished between the various characters Hannay meets on his Scottish adventure in ''Literature/MrStandfast''. Lampshaded and averted with Jack Godstow in ''Literature/TheIslandOfSheep''; Hannay-the-narrator says he's not going to attempt to represent Jack's Cotswold accent, and paraphrases everything he says instead of reporting it as direct speech.