History Main / InventedLinguisticDistinction

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In RealLife, even when people from different places technically speak the same basic language, they don't always all talk the same. People from different regions, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic strata have different pronunciations, rhythms, slang terms, and idioms. In some works of fiction, this isn't true; they adhere to the PlanetOfHats linguistically. On the other hand, there's this trope, where a work creator has created variety within the languages used in TheVerse, typically as a means of WorldBuilding.

** Other works generally reconcile this (along with Obi-Wan's accent) as having a refined British accent as being the local pronunciation for the elite of Coruscant and those seeking to emulate them (such as Padme): [[TheQueensLatin a mark of prestige]].

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' takes it a step further than VIII by giving each city a consistent national accent: Spanish for Puerto Valor, Italian for Gondolia, Scandinavian fir Sniffleheim, etc. It actually works for foreshadowing - you can figure out parts of several characters backstories before the relevant reveals from their accents, although at least one tries (with middling success) to hide his accent for just such reason.

* A minor RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' is that, despite the [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield non-specific]] American setting, everyone uses an exaggerated Canadian pronunciation for the word "sorry".

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}''
** The English dub of the first game has two examples. Though all of the characters sport accents from across southern England, most of them are distributed based on character rather than nationality (despite living together for most of their lives, siblings Fiora and Dunban speak in Estuary and Received Pronunciation accents, respectively, for example). The first exception and example of this trope is the High Entia race, who all speak in Upper Received Pronunciation accents and are the sole users of it. As a very long lived and somewhat isolationist society of High Elfish people, the language difference checks out. The other example is the Nopon race, who aren't so different accent-wise, but speak in their own unique dialect full of broken English and strange terminologies.
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' implies that the various alien races encountered on the planet Mira have their own languages, but an [[HandWave unexplained phenomenon on the planet translates them all]], so we mostly end up getting everyone speaking the same language in the same way. Some quirks still manage to make their way through though, such as the Ma-Non tendencies to repeat conjunctions or phrase sentences as questions, or the many oddities of the ever present Nopon dialect.
** The English dub of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' kicks things up a notch by giving every one of the fictional nations of Alrest their own set of dialects taken from the real world. The Ardainians all sound Scottish, the Urayans are all Australian, the Gormotti are all Welsh, and so on. The Nopon return yet again sporting working class southern English accents, presumed to be the native dialect of the Nopon founded MerchantCity of Argentum, as well as their unique broken speech patterns and terminologies.

* In the ''{{Literature/Foundation}}'' series, the planets of the Galaxy have different dialects, sometimes barely intelligible to one another. Magnifico, for example, speaks with the accent of the galactic core, conveniently rendered as FloweryElizabethanEnglish.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': In ''[[Literature/XWingSeries X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar]]'', the eponymous LostColony speaks a dialect of Galactic Basic with slightly different pronunciation: "Rad Flat" is heard in an early scene, referring to Wedge Antilles's Red Flight. Later, he greets another officer, who responds with an accent described in Wedge's InternalMonologue as "clipped, precise, ''Imperial''", and Wedge recognizes him as being from the Imperial Remnant. (The latter references the ''Film/StarWars'' films' use of EvilBrit.)

In RealLife, even when people from different places technically speak the same basic language, they don't always all talk the same. People from different regions, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic strata have different pronunciations, rhythms, and slang terms and idioms. In some works of fiction, this isn't true; they adhere to the PlanetOfHats linguistically. On the other hand, there's this trope, where a work creator has created variety within the languages used in TheVerse, typically as a means of WorldBuilding.

* In ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar]]'', the eponymous LostColony speaks a dialect of Galactic Basic with slightly different pronunciation: "Rad Flat" is heard in an early scene, referring to Wedge Antilles's Red Flight. Later, he greets another officer, who responds with an accent described in Wedge's InternalMonologue as "clipped, precise, ''Imperial''", and Wedge recognizes him as being from the Imperial Remnant. (The latter references the ''Film/StarWars'' films' use of EvilBrit.)
* In the ''{{Literature/Foundation}}'' series, the planets of the Galaxy have different dialects, sometimes barely intelligible to one another. Magnifico, for example, speaks with the accent of the galactic core, conveniently rendered as FloweryElizabethanEnglish.

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* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' features many accents to liven up the various regions of the world, most European in origin. The most common one is the standard British accent used for King Trode, Jessica, Angelo and many NPC's. Other examples include the people of the snowy Orkustk region having Russian accents, Morrie having an Italian accent, people from Pickham such as Yangus and Red having Cockney accents, Ascanthan natives having a Yorkshire bent to them, People from Baccarat having American accents, and [[spoiler:Dragovians having a Chinese accent to emphasize the distance their land has from the rest of the world]] among other accents held by notable NPC's.

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* In ''Series/{{Krypton}}'', all the Kryptonians have British (or in one case Irish) accents. While English Kryptonians have appeared before (Susannah York's Lara; Terrance Stamp's Zod; David Warner's Jor-El, Terrance Stamp's Jor-El...), the consistent use here appears to be at least partly to distinguish them from the one Earth character, Adam Strange, who is American.

* A minor RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' is that, despite the [[WhereInTheHellIsSpringfield non-specific]] American setting, everyone uses an exaggerated Canadian pronunciation for the word "sorry".

** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' features many accents to liven up the various regions of the world, most European in origin. The most common one is the standard British accent used for King Trode, Jessica, Angelo and many NPC's. Other examples include the people of the snowy Orkustk region having Russian accents, Morrie having an Italian accent, people from Pickham such as Yangus and Red having Cockney accents, Ascanthan natives having a Yorkshire bent to them, People from Baccarat having American accents, and [[spoiler:Dragovians having a Chinese accent to emphasize the distance their land has from the rest of the world]] among other accents held by notable NPC's.

** ''XenobladeChroniclesX'' implies that the various alien races encountered on the planet Mira have their own languages, but an [[HandWave unexplained phenomenon on the planet translates them all]], so we mostly end up getting everyone speaking the same language in the same way. Some quirks still manage to make their way through though, such as the Ma-Non tendencies to repeat conjunctions or phrase sentences as questions, or the many oddities of the ever present Nopon dialect.

** XenobladeChroniclesX implies that the various alien races encountered on the planet Mira have their own languages, but an [[HandWave unexplained phenomenon on the planet translates them all]], so we mostly end up getting everyone speaking the same language in the same way. Some quirks still manage to make their way through though, such as the Ma-Non tendencies to repeat conjunctions or phrase sentences as questions, or the many oddities of the ever present Nopon dialect.

** XenobladeChroniclesX implies that the various alien races encountered on the planet Mira have their own languages, but an [[HandWave unexplained phenomenon on the planet translates them all]], so we mostly end up getting everyone speaking the same language in the same way. Some quirks still manage to make their way through though, such as the Ma-non tendencies to repeat conjunctions or phrase sentences as questions, or the many oddities of the ever present Nopon dialect.