{"id":1603,"date":"2018-09-30T23:53:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T06:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2018-09-30T23:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T06:53:49","slug":"temporal-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Temporal Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious how intelligible my Sole Survivor in Fallout 4 would be to the people of the Commonwealth &#8211; considering that she has been frozen for ~200 years &#8211; so I looked up some of the earliest recordings of American voices I could find. Unfortunately, we do not have any recordings from ~1818, and so I had to make due with late 1800&#8217;s \/ early 1900&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Most prominently, I suppose, were recordings of Taft and Teddy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iEG0xT7fddw\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVNwLzUcPYk\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After listening to a bunch of the earliest stuff I could find, I came to the conclusion that the Sole Survivor would be perfectly intelligible to anybody in the Commonwealth, but that she would definitely have a temporal accent that people might find strange, as well as strange mannerisms that might be seen as idiosyncrasies.<\/p>\n<p>And then &#8211; in support of this &#8211; after I did all this research on Temporal accents, Jack Cabot was able to accurately guess the Sole Survivor&#8217;s age at ~200. He claims that he based this on her speech and manners. Since he&#8217;d lived through that era, it makes sense that he could hear the temporal accent and be able to make a rough guess. He&#8217;d also lived in the Boston area for I think his whole life, and that&#8217;s where the Sole Survivor was living, so that would definitely reduce any regional variations that might otherwise throw him off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious how intelligible my Sole Survivor in Fallout 4 would be to the people of the Commonwealth &#8211; considering that she has been frozen for ~200 years &#8211; so I looked up some of the earliest recordings of American voices I could find. Unfortunately, we do not have any recordings from ~1818, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temporal Accents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}