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{{trope}}
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A '''Funetik Aksent''' (Phonetic Accent) is dialogue spelled phonetically, so that it looks the way the character sounds to someone with another accent.
[[Accent Tropes|Accents]] are one of the major ways of [[Characterization Tropes|providing characterization]]. This creates a challenge for writers, since it's not just a matter of word choice and grammar. The same word can be pronounced very differently in different regional accents, let alone ethnic and foreign accents. Authors can get past that limitation with a phonetically spelled accent,
However, a
The
Also, since standard English is not spelled phonetically, a
Conversely, some readers will read such implications into texts written in a form of
This trope exists in Japanese language manga as well. Thick accents will probably rendered phonetically in one of the Japanese syllabaries or "kana" (most of the time, in katakana) instead of the standard "mixed script" with is made up by using Kanji (ideographic characters and Kana. Native accents may be spelled in standard scripts and bear "furigana" (small kana over kanji) in phonetic spelling. Foreign accents will be rendered with lot of katakana and only few kanji, to give a sense of illiteracy.
Interestingly, some instances of Funetik Aksent have preserved accents that became extinct before the invention of sound recording. A well-known example is the character of Sam Weller in Dickens's ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''; Weller's "Cockney" accent is nothing like a 20th century Cockney accent, but without Dickens, nobody would have known.
Littering [[Punctuation Shaker|the text with apostrophes]] is optional. See also [[Speech Bubbles]], for alternative ways of conveying information about the characters' voices, and [[Psmith Psyndrome]], in which characters insist that someone else is using the ''wrong'' Funetik Aksent. And to read this article in a Funetik Aksent itself, see [[Funetik Aksent/Self Demonstrating|here]], exactly as that poor sod was trying to do a few minutes ago, and now I'm off to the bar...
To some more phonetic-savvy people, the accent might not be phonetic at all. "Funetik", using default phonetic rules, would be pronounced "few-nitt-ick".
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the English language translations of the ''[[Hellsing]]'' manga, Father Anderson speaks with an immensely thick brogue, which is especially funny seeing that he speaks completely normal Japanese in the original (along with the Germans and other characters who were given accents in the English adaptation) - as normal as a character voiced by Norio Wakamoto can be.
** Also funnier yet if you know the sound of a real Glasgow accent well, and Anderson's voice is most definitely not one. What it is, in fact, is a poorly-guessed imitation by someone who's never met a Glaswegian.
* In the
* The English translation of the
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Until well into the Silver Age, this was pretty standard for foreign or immigrant characters of any kind - yes, even if they were ''heroes''! Take Mademoiselle Marie, a [[La Résistance|French Resistance fighter]] in a series of [[World War II]] adventures put out by DC in the 1950s. Marie was an [[Action Girl]] and looked every bit the part with her tight skirt, [[Sweater Girl|even tighter sweater]], [[Nice Hat|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.
* A buttload in ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', such as Gambit and Rogue, courtesy of [[Chris Claremont]].
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** As well as Morrison himself as written by [[Brian Azzarello]] in Tales of the Unexpected.
* In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', a character with an absurdly thick Scottish accent shows up. [[Alan Moore]] renders the accent funetikally.
* This concept was parodied in an ''Inferior Five'' story where the villain was the Masked Swastika, who naturally [[Those Wacky Nazis| was a former Nazi]]. While he ''can'' speak perfect English if he wants to, he speaks with a ridiculously exaggerated German accent, because it's "an unwritten law" for Nazi villains.
* ''[[Platinum Grit]]'' uses phonetic accents for just about every character who isn't Australian, including a talking cupboard from Jamaica, a ridiculously German cafe owner, and a plethora of Scottish characters with accents so authentically thick and indecipherable that fans have actually asked for translations (see above image). And a different set of phonetic spelling for characters who aren't Scottish putting on bad fake Scots accents.
* Used extensively in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]''. Mainly for the Texan/Southern accents most of the cast possesses, but also a thick Irish one for Cassidy, and the gibberish of the facially-maimed Arseface, which somehow comes out ''actually readable'' if you sound it out.
* ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'' was the ''master'' of this, with everything from [[Marx Brothers|Chico Marx]]'s fake Italian accent to Cerebus's cold to [[Alan Moore]]'s Britishisms.
** Creator Dave Sim is a big fan of this trope, to the point that after a while, practically every new character he introduces has either a phonetic accent, or a major verbal tic. They're never hard to understand, though, and perhaps most impressively, he never uses the same accent twice.
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* In ''[[Strontium Dog]]'', Middenface, and occasionally other Scottish characters, speaks with an accent so thick it is sometimes incomprehensible. Wulf has a Norwegian accent, which is much easier to follow. Welsh and Irish accents also turn up occasionally, but those are mostly implied by the characters' vocabulary.
* [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Whah? Aw, why didnja mention the Thing yet? It's Clobberin' Time!]]
* In the ''[[The Simpsons (Comic Book)|Radioactive Man]]'' comics, Dr. Crab is supposed to be a hideously mutated Russian, but his accent looks like a wild mixture of Russian and German sounds. This is finally explained in Radioactive Man's last adventure, where it's revealed that {{spoiler|the Germans had forced the (communist) Crab to conduct experiments for them during the Nazi era}}.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanwork, many authors will utterly butcher Applejack's Ozark accent.
* This is often done to characters who speak with strange accents in nonwritten mediums, and usually not well. In the ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' fandom Blitzwing gets the short end of the stick, with half his consonants reduced to 'v' and 'z'.
** It's somewhat [[Justified Trope|justified]] as most people [[Viewers are Morons|are used to hearing it like that and just get confused if they see 'w's in a sentence instead of the phonetic 'v'.]]
** With another nod to ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Transformers G1]]'', accents and dialects are usually used; from Jazz's "black talk", to Ironhide's country.
* Shinji Ikari speaks Japanese just fine in ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K]]''; however, he speaks ''English'' with an <s>Cockney</s> Ork accent.
* ''[[My Immortal]]'', the infamous ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic, sometimes ''looks'' like this is what it's going for, though with the general [[Rouge Angles of Satin|schizophrenic spelling]] it can be awfully hard to tell.
** Speaking of ''Harry Potter'', it's often noted or joked that the reason Hagrid doesn't seem to appear much in fan fiction is probably because fanfic writers find writing his accent (as [[J. K. Rowling]] does) to be difficult.
*** The author of ''[[Deserving]]'' specifically cited this as the reason Hagrid didn't say much in his scenes. This didn't stop everyone else [[We All Live in America|talking like they were from another country]].
* In the fanfics by [[Cori Falls]] Meowth talks with one.
* Pippin Took had a distinct Scottish lilt in Peter Jackson's ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies, which some fans try to replicate in fic, with varying levels of success. ''[[Bag Enders]]'' manages it fairly well most of the time and parodies it on one occasion, when Pippin starts speaking in a Glaswegian dialect to annoy the others;
{{quote|Pippin, now wearing a string vest for no good reason, said to the world in general, "Tha'ala'ti'mrsh'weebasser."
There was a moment of complete confusion.
"What did he say? Was that English?" asked Legolas.
"Glaswegian. Haven't you heard the story?"
"Ah'm'invennnorglasweginansoaham."
"Yeeees..." said Aragorn, "He's not exactly the inventor. Perpetrator possibly. Centuries ago he tried to teach the old South Farthing dialect to some guys in a pub in south west Scotland..."
"That's nothing like South Farthing dialect," argued Sam.
"I did say this was in the pub." }}
* In recent memory, the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfic [[Grand Tour Series|''Grand Tour'']]. Ranma speaks (or is written as speaking) a more standard English. Writer Drunkengronard took it to abrupt and ridiculous levels in subsequent stories. In ''Walkabout'':
{{quote|"I see I ain't t' only one lookin' fer info. I'm guessin' ya got some Ju Jutsu an' one'r two schools of Karate?"}}
** He admits to purposely writing Ranma in that manner though Ranma speaks nowhere this badly in the manga.
* In a lot of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' fan fiction, Monterey Jack's ''[[Crocodile Hunter]]''-style (yet preceding ''[[Crocodile Hunter]]'') Australian accent, as heard by Americans, is written almost phonetically, sometimes appearing to be exaggerated. It often goes something like this:
{{quote|'''Monterey Jack''': Croikey, Gadget-luv! Remoinds me o' th' toime when...}}
* The author of ''[[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies]]'' has chosen to write out Joey's accent whenever he is speaking or when any of the other characters are imitating him.
* In the bizarre 1990s-vintage ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfic ''[http://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Ranma/Narrabundah/ Narrabundah 1/2]'' by Erac "Ratbat" Sigma you will find a vast amount of Scots and Welsh accents transcribed phonetically, on top of [[Egregious]]ly [[Gratuitous Japanese]], obscure Anzac slang, and some just outright bizarre character speech patterns.
== [[Film]] ==
* Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the [[World War II]]-themed comedy ''Under the Rainbow'', in which a Japanese agent's [[Japanese Ranguage|inability to properly pronounce]] "The pearl is in the liver" actually sets the whole plot in motion!
== [[Literature]] ==
* Anthony Burgess plays with this at some length in ''[[A Clockwork Orange]]'' in which the central protagonist, Alex, speaks a heavily Russian-influenced patois in which individual words are Anglicised ( "horrorshow", meaning "excellent" or "very good", is derived from a Russian word normally transliterated as Hara-sho, for example
* Jumps in and out for Scotty in differing books of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise fiction, depending on the author. Sometimes his accent is spelled phonetically, other times its presence is just noted in the prose. The same goes for Chekov. (William Shatner in particular favors "vw" for Chekov's 'nuclear wessels' accent, which is somewhat difficult to read.)
* The original novel of ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' is written in Forrest's Southern dialect.
* George Bernard Shaw lampshades this in his play
* [[Manly Wade Wellman]] slips in some of this in his ''[[Silver John]]'' stories, all set in the (very) backwoods of Appalachia.
* ''[[Redwall]]''. The mice, otters, etc. tend to speak normally (apart from the random Scottish characters here and there). However, rats have a sort of broken cockney-slash-pirate speak, the shrews seem to lisp, and moles? The mole-speech is almost incomprehensible. Moles speak with accents from [[The West Country]] - the same as Hagrid, but written even ''more'' phonetically. The Hares have a [[Verbal Tic]] modeled after the stereotypical 19th/early 20th century British military officer, ending most sentences with "wot".
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** Most of the vermin don't have a recognisable regional accent, just generic poor grammar with a dash of [[Talk Like a Pirate]], except for two in ''Salamandastron'' who are inexplicably [[The Midlands|Brummie]].
* One character in a ''[[Xanth]]'' novel speaks with a lisp; all the "s"s in his speech are replaced with the letter "v", except when he says the word "island" (in which the "s" is silent). [[Lampshade Hanging|One of the other characters]] asks if it should have been "ivland", to which the lisping character responds, "Whatever for?" Interestingly, when the narrator momentarily changes focus to the lisping character, his speech is normal and the other characters have extra "s"s in their speech, as though they were hissing.
* Any American novel that involves soldiers from the UK and a Lieutenant. Whenever one of the British say that officer's rank, it's always 'Leftenant'. Tom Clancy is extremely fond of this, and ''[[Call of Duty]]'' had Price say this once (subtitles say 'Leftenant').
** ''[[The Goon Show]]'' had an American character called "Lootenant Hern-Hern"; he may have appeared in just one episode, but it was printed.
* Vaska Denisov in ''[[War and Peace]]'' is said to swallow his R's when talking, which the translators decided to replicate by putting "gh" in front of any R's in any words he says. It takes some getting used to.
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* ''Horrible Science'' magazine once showed an American and a Russian trying to launch rockets in a comic strip. Both failed. The American said "Rats!", the Russian said "Ratz!" Interestingly enough, "Ratz" in Russian would still be pronounced as "Rats" due to pronunciation rules.
* John Kennedy Toole took great care to transcribe the accents of his New Orleans characters as perfectly as possible in ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]''. Ooo-wee!
* [[Discworld|Terry Pratchett]] does it a lot, too - the Nac Mac Feegle are a whole race of tiny [[Violent Glaswegian]]s, Granny Weatherwax's warning sign for when she's out "borrowing" reads ''I aten't dead'' (admittedly that's more because spelling's optional in most parts of the Disc), and Death even speaks in {{
** Igorth lithp, even in wordth where it would be unneceththeththary. And are apparently doing it on purpose. The more modern ones occasionally forget, and will on occasion forgo it when they need to explain something really complicated, like in ''[[
** Pronouncing words with correct phonetics is also sometimes used in these when a character is obviously repeating the word from hearing it but not properly learning it, such as Nanny Ogg saying "swarray" in ''[[Maskerade]]'', or Granny Weatherwax's "Jograffy."
*** Or, as with Tiffany's vocabulary, if they'd learned the word from a dictionary that didn't include
* The book ''[[Good Omens]]'', coauthored by Pratchett and [[Neil Gaiman]], uses and parodies this with Shadwell, whose accent is described as an arbitrary and inconsistent mixture of British regional dialects.
* Used quite a bit - and much mocked in fandom - in ''[[The Baby Sitters Club]]'', from the Australian family the Hobarts, to Jessie's French ballet teacher, to Logan's Kentucky accent, to his brother's "allergy dialect".
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** This makes sense in a way, since—though they are both descended from Anglo-Saxon, and thus close linguistic relatives—Scots and English are, in fact, different languages.
** Certain German and Irish characters will also have written accents, but only when they are speaking English; at all other times the [[Translation Convention]] is in effect.
* In ''The Age of the Pussyfoot'', ''de man out to kill de protagonist speaks like dis''. Assumed to be German, but revealed to be Martian instead. The thin atmosphere caused the Martians to lose the higher frequencies.
* ''[[Trainspotting]]'' (and everything else by Irvine Welsh) uses this trope so extensively it take most people several chapters before they can fully understand anything. While there are a few chapters narrated in standard English (from a third person omniscient perspective), most are from a various first person points of view and written in that character's particular brand of thick Edinburgh Scottish.
** It helps if the reader says the words out loud as they are written - what comes out is the word or phrase, but in a Scottish accent.
* Amalia Ivanovna/Ludwigovna from ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' had one.
* In ''[[Push (novel)|Push]]'' by Sapphire, the whole story is like this, but it is implied in the story that she is writing this herself. Precious is an illiterate (possibly mentally retarded) girl, so it makes sense.
* Neatly averted in ''[[Les Misérables]]'': only once or twice does Hugo render Toussaint's speech difficulty phonetically. Then he changes to standard orthography, with the parenthetical comment, "We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us."
** However played straight with the transcription of Joly's words when he has a cold and blocked nose. Translators differ as to whether they reproduce this in other languages.
* Neil Munro's ''Tales of Para Handy'' often makes use of this trope, although with a lot of care given to properly depicting accents appropriate to the background of the characters. The narrator and Para Handy's middle-class employer are written as Standard Scottish English, while working class characters are written in colloquial Glaswegian and those from the Highlands and Isles, particularly Para Handy himself, have a notably distinct, Gaelicised accent.
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** "Meester" to imitate a Mexican accent in ''The Soft Machine.''
* [[Riddley Walker]] by Russell Hoban is written entirely in Riddley's dialect. It gets easier to read after you've been reading it for a while.
* Alex Kilgour from the ''[[Sten]]'' series comes from a world [[Violent Glaswegian|colonized by Highland Scots]] and has a thick accent represented this way. Lampshaded when Sten gets a letter he's startled to realize is from Alex, but then faces the fact that even Kilgour wouldn't '''write''' with an accent.
* In Aristophanes' play ''[[Lysistrata]]'', the Athenians speak normally, but the Spartans have their Doric Greek accent spelled out phonetically. Modern translators may render the Doric (a Greek redneck accent) as Irish, Scottish, or Southern, or may omit it.
* Malakai Makaisson of ''[[Gotrek and Felix]]'', a dwarf, speaks in this way. Dwarves in that setting generally speak as humans do or at least very close, but Makaisson is said to be using an uncommon regional dialect.
* In ''Dear Enemy'', the sequel to ''[[Daddy Long Legs]]'', Sallie McBride does this in a few of her letters to her friend Judy. This is actually [[Justified]]—what she's describing is conversations that the Irish Sallie has with the Scottish Dr. Robin MacRae, in which they both playfully use their ancestral accents. She writes out the dialogue phonetically so Judy (and the reader) can see what she means.
* In ''Whisky Galore'' by Compton Mackenzie, the heavily Gaelic-inspired accent of the Hebrides is written phonetically, with normally voiced consonants changing to voiceless: "beer" becomes "peer". When the characters actually speak Gaelic, it's written using standard Gaelic spelling.
* In [[David Eddings
* [[Heralds of Valdemar|''It Takes
* An example of Funetik Aksent spelling by a native speaker of a dialect - the beginning of the most well-know poem in Lancashire dialect, by cotton-worker Samuel Laycock (1826-1893). Note for instance the three different "thou"s in the first stanza and the two spellings of "come", reflecting different pronunciations according to stress and context:
{{quote|Th'art welcome, little bonny brid,
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And neaw it's hard wark pooin' throo--
But aw munno fear thee,--iv aw do|Tha'll go back.<ref>You're welcome, little bonny bird, But shouldn't have come just when you did, Times are bad. We're short of money for our Joe, But that, of course, you didn't know, Did you lad? I've often heard my father tell That when I came into the world myself Trade was slack; And now it's hard work pulling through--But I mustn't fear you, if I do You'll go back.</ref>}}
* [[Harry Stephen Keeler]] does this a lot. A lot.
* Used for nearly all dialogue in Christopher Brookmyre's novels.
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** Go [http://rephrase.net/box/hagridizer/ here] to translate anything into Hagrid speak.
** Professor Quirrell's stutter: ''"P-P-Potter," stammered Professor Quirrell, grasping Harry's hand, "c-can't t-tell you how p-pleased I am to meet you."'' In fact, any time a character stutters, it's written out thus.
* Agatha Christie: her representations of the "uneducated
* The Grand High Witch in ''[[The Witches]]'' had a similar accent, but it was supposed to be Norwegian.
* ''[[Jane Eyre]]''
** Also Joseph (and practically everyone else in Heathcliff's household, but the main offender is Joseph) of ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]''.
* [[Stephen King]] often does this with New England characters.
* ''[[The Sound and
* The Uncle Remus stories are incredibly difficult on the first reading. Reading them out loud may help. A little. "Br'er" is "Brother", ok, but what's "bimeby"?.<ref>By and by -- via "by'n'by"</ref> However, this is as another example of a fairly accurate representation of an archaic accent; in this case, the mid-1800's Deep South
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] loved to do this; most notably in ''[[The Dunwich Horror]]'' and ''The Shadow over Innsmouth''.
** Brilliantly parodied by [[Neil Gaiman]] in his short story "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" in ''Smoke and Mirrors''.
* ''The Bridge'' by [[Iain Banks]] has a Scots warrior speaking in broad Scottish.
** ''Feersum Endjinn'' by the same author (with an M. in his name this time) has a viewpoint character, Bascule, whose entire sections are written in a funetik aksent. It takes a while to register that the character is actually very intelligent despite this: his sections are essentially a diary, in which he explains that the thought-interpreter he's using doesn't agree with his unusual brain pattern. It doesn't help that the computer pulls out oddities like spelling "have" as "1/2" and the overall inconsistency in the spelling.
* Almost all the characters in Steinbeck's ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' speak in some variant of a rural-American accent: the Joads' eldest daughter's name is given as "Rose of Sharon" in narrative, but always rendered as "Rosasharn" when spoken. Steinbeck even hangs a lampshade on his characters' awareness of their own, and others', speech:
{{quote|"I knowed you wasn't Oklahomy folks. You talk queer kinda--that ain't no blame, you understan'."
"Ever'body says words different," said Ivy. "Arkansas folks says 'em different, and Oklahomy folks says 'em different. And we seen a lady from Massachusetts, an' she said 'em differentest of all. Couldn' hardly make out what she was sayin'." }}
* [[P. G.
* [[James Herriot]]'s tales of life as a vet in the pre-WWII Yorkshire Dales—starting with ''All Creatures Great and Small'' are thickly seasoned with this trope. Interestingly, as with the Dickens example above, there's evidence that the Herriot stories may have helped to preserve records of a dialect that's very different today.
* The title character in [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''[[Freckles]]'' speaks with the author's idea of an Irish accent. This is particularly interesting since he was born in Chicago and grew up in a Chicago orphanage. Not only does he have an inherited accent, he has an inherited ''upper-class'' accent: "Somewhere before accident and poverty there had been an ancestor who used cultivated English, even with an accent."
* S.M. Stirling does this frequently. In the ''Domination'' series, parsing [[The Draka|Draka]] speech patterns (a sort of mutated 18th-century American Southern, influenced by Afrikaans and filled with loanwords from languages of the peoples they've enslaved over the centuries) takes some getting used to. In one of the books, a character describes the accent as "a German trying to sound like Scarlet O'Hara."
* When a battle in ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' goes horribly wrong, the commanders broadcast ''[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sauve%20qui%20peut sauve qui peut]'' ("let him save himself who can")--that is, the only objective is to get yourself and any living buddies back to an escape ship and get off the planet. Later on, a character (smart enough, but without much formal education) refers to the "sove-ki-poo".
* In ''[[The Idiot]]'', [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] renders Lebedev's speech phonetically to indicate when he's mispronouncing French words.
* Frances Hodgson Burnett's ''[[The Secret Garden]]'' has Dickon, whose broad Yorkshire dialect is rendered so faithfully as to be incomprehensible at times.
== [[Music]] ==
* Oddly enough, [[Led Zeppelin]]'s name is an example of this - the misspelling is to emphasize that the word is pronounced like the metal lead, and not like the verb "lead".
** Their 1973 reggae song "D'yer Maker ("joor-maker")," which represents the lower-class British English pronunciation of "Jamaica," but probably had many Americans wondering why the song was named for someone who made dyes.
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* Similarly, the [[Iron Butterfly]] classic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (supposedly the "stoner" pronunciation of "In the Garden of Eden").
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* This was once very common in [[Newspaper Comics]]. ''[[Li'l Abner]]'', ''[[The Katzenjammer Kids]]'', ''[[Krazy Kat]]'', and ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'' are some of the best known examples (indeed, ''The Katzenjammer Kids'' remains the archetypal example of a bad, broken German accent in the English-speaking world, and comparisons to it are made by those who have never seen the original). As time went on and dialect humor fell out of favor, most mainstream comics have stuck to proper English.
* In the Scottish newspaper comic ''[[The Broons]]'' ("The Browns") every single character speaks like this- in a thick Scottish accent.
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* Invoked in a series of ''[[Dilbert]]'' strips in which Dogbert temporarily becomes a [[Animal Wrongs Group|militant animal-rights activist]]. He protests in front of a store with a "Fur Sale" sign, until the owner informs him that he's not selling fur; the entire store is "fur sale" (for sale). Dogbert retorts that incorrect spelling offends him just as much.
==
* The book and lyrics to ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' are rendered this way, including the song titles ("I Cain't Say No," "Pore Jud is Daid," etc.).
** Oscar Hammerstein loves this trope. See ''[[Carousel]]'', ''[[South Pacific]]'', ''[[Flower Drum Song]]'', et al.
** Similarly, ''[[Seven Brides
* In ''[[Pygmalion]]'', Eliza's dialogue is at first spelled phonetically. Shaw got sick of writing it that way and, with an explanatory note, switched to standard spelling partway through:
{{quote|'''THE MOTHER:''' How do you know that my son's name is Freddy, pray?
'''THE FLOWER GIRL:''' Ow, eez ye-ooa san, is e? Wal, fewd dan y' de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awy athaht pyin. Will ye-oo py me f'them? ''[Here, with apologies, this desperate attempt to represent her dialect without a phonetic alphabet must be abandoned as unintelligible outside London.]'' }}
* Alfred Jarry's "Ubu" plays have Ubu and his wife's peculiar accent written into the dialogue - an accent made up by the author. This has made translation of the texts tricky, to say nothing of placing the accent. The most famous example is that of "Ubu Roi"'s first word, 'merdre,' which is the French word for 'shit' with an added extra R.
* ''The Dark of the Moon'' by Howard Richardson does this, too. Because it assumes that the actors are not from Appalachia, everything is done in phonetics. What's ''really'' annoying is that the lyrics in the script are written phonetically, while the unaccented words are written under the notes in the sheet music. Also, the "he" in "you ain't got no man to make you he bride" should probably be pronounced like "heh," but the way it is written, it should be pronounced "hee." Rednecks have terrible grammar as well as atrocious accents, apparently.
* ''Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'' is written mostly with exceptionally thick Scottish accents built in.
* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s '
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Orcs and Orks in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', with a Cockney-like Accent.
** Also, and more obviously, whenever the ''Warhammer 40000'' Orks are quoted in writing, virtually every word is misspelled. Boyz, Deffkoptas, Meks, etc. even ORC.
** For added amusement, note that the way it's written works equally well as a [[Deep South]] or Redneck accent. (Except for the part where they call you a "[[Football Hooligans|daft git]]".)
* Cultist-chan: "Hwee are captooring waffles fhor khay-oss."
** Her accent is shared by the Cultists in ''[[Dawn of War]]'', all of which have incredibly silly ways of talking.
* ''[[Deadlands]]'' uses this throughout, including in rule-text. Skills are named shootin' and ridin', the reader is addressed as "pardner", and so on.
* Similarly, the ''[[Serenity]]'' RPG has everything in cowboy-speak. If possible, assets and flaws are named after actual lines from ''[[Firefly]]''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Most of the characters in ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' have accents in the English translation, in order to add variety to what would otherwise be interchangeable snippets of dialogue spoken by whatever characters you happened to have in your party at the time. This was an attempt [[Translation Convention|to come up with an English equivalent]] to different ways of speaking Japanese.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', this may account for Ultimecia's bizarre "Kursed SeeDs! You will not stop me from achieving Time Kompression!" speech patterns. May be a somewhat dubious way of making her sound [[Lzherusskie|"Russian"]]. Or may be just [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]].
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* ''[[Persona 3]]'' has Bebe, a foriegn exchance student who speaks with a French accent. He also throws in [[Gratuitous Japanese]], which makes for very confusing dialogue.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has the Jägermonsters ([[Super Soldier]]s transformed by Mad Science) with silly "Germanic"-sounding phonetic accents. Even more bizarre given that, although the comic itself is written in English, the main characters are [[Translation Convention|actually speaking in German and Romanian]] (as confirmed by the Foglios on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719132919/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/girlgenius/ the Yahoo Group fanforum]) and the only British character speaks ''without'' any phonetical accent.
** It probably IS [[Fang Thpeak|the pointy teeth]]. It is very difficult to speak properly when one cannot close one's mouth without fangs poking out, as anyone who's ever been a vampire for Halloween can attest. Though it seems the Jäger accent is [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030326 infectious] and have spread around: even in Mechanicsburg it's not common, but Higgs (sometimes) and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081029 a local woman] talk like this despite having normal human teeth.
*** Amusingly enough, the Jägers actually ''write'' in their Aksent, as is seen with Gil's [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080514 ''Schmott Guy''] hat and Mama Gkika's [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111230 ''Dollink''].
** The Foglios have described the Jaegermonsters as "The Mongol Horde, staffed by the Katzenjammer Kids".
*** Mostly ''[[Rule of Funny]]'', though; the Jagers started out as generic monsters, segued quite quickly into violent slapstick on the Tom-and-Jerry level (see the "clenk gun" business in their first appearance) and took on a life of their own with their hat fixation, ludicrous cod-Napoleonic uniforms, gallows humour, the whole Mechanicsburg/Mama Gkika's bar/"fake" Jager bar-girls thing and under it all, being genuinely dangerous - they DO kill people on quite a few occasions.
** The Boyz are hundreds of years old. They're speaking with an accent of their era.
** Interestingly, some Martians in ''[[XXXenophile]] use the same accent as the monsters. Is this [[Author Appeal]]?
** One could argue Wooster's simply especially good at being fluent. While he does once and awhile flaunt his Britishness to people he knows and likes and/or who are already in the know (like Gil), having an obvious accent would somewhat put a dent in his spy capabilities should the moment arise.
***
** And then Gil [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190508 tries to sound more British].
{{quote|'''Trelawney Thorpe''': ([[Face Palm]]) Never, ''ever'' talk like that again. }}
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', Durkon has a Scots-like accent; this is lampshaded on more than one occasion ([http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0130.html "He can pronounce 'stratosphere' but not 'the'?"]).
** At one point [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0305.html he writes a letter] in the same manner. When told he didn't have to transcribe his accent, he responds "Transcribe my what now?"
** One of the prequel books reveals that the OOTS universe has a spell called "Comprehend Inconsistent Accents" specifically for dealing with such characters. It causes a translated speech bubble to appear alongside the character's regular one.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' renders some characters' accents this way: Surma's [[British Accents|Yorkshire accent]], Zimmy's (presumably) Birmingham accent, and Red's completely fictional accent. On the other hand, the main characters avert this: Antimony has a slight Yorkshire accent and Kat has a slight Scottish accent, but we only know this because [[Word of God]] says so.
** On [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=319 this page], you may notice how the orange-haired girl not only uses "dem" and "hain't" herself, but asks "a what-er what-iday?" - if you've ever talked to a scot, they have a hitch in their voice turning holiday to hool-iday. a british person would generally say 'holiDay' with emphasis on the day part.
** Paz. [[Word of God|Quoth Tom]] (about the page when she approached the cows), "[
* JD, the scientist Space Pirate from the webcomic ''Metroid: Third Derivative'' (named himself after "the greatest pirate in human history: [[Johnny Depp]]"), speaks with a German accent ("Just take ze damn veapon already."). At least, his W's are written as V's, and his S's are Z's. When he's alone, though, he sometimes drops the accent ("Thank God, now I can drop this stupid accent I used to impress the idiot.").
** And on one occasion: "And vhat is ze deal with my accent! It '''rages''' out of my control!"
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* In ''[[Misfile]]'' garage owner Harry has the most appalling Cockney/Welsh fusion accent. Thankfully his appearances are rare.
** That's because it's [[Just for Pun]]; his garage is called "Aries".
* ''[[Lackadaisy Cats
** "Now he got no lag room bag dare." Hee hee.
* Kroenen and Johann Krauss of ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'' both have phonetic German accents (and Krauss speaks in his own capslock font).
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* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0307.html has fun] [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0308.html with this]
* ''[[The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred]]'' - Driver and Galen both speak with very heavy accents (Deep South and Russian, respectively). In Driver's case it's shown in The Rescue arc (and [[Word of God]]) that she gets it from her father, who also has a noticeable southern accent.
* Angus of ''[[The Pig's Ear
* ''[[All Over the House]]'' played this for laughs in a news report about regional accents on street signs; which were apparently intended to enhance 'local identity'.
* The Martians in ''Triquetra Cats'': "'ul gonna da'z be ohhzen else Miss Ushiro?, Borrrd'n iz ha Starport 3B y'un da eur gran' trip!" "if yoo'll ho ye, ay wur hactually deal'n wi d'lydy in front hay yeur! Ohz tiribly soz 'but dat but ohz clap d' ammust flecht teur d'lunaaar colonoys, baint fe sex os sa yaeur wonnot be yabble ta..."
* In ''[[The KAMics]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130225071257/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/5042203/ Sven & Oli] speak in a Scandahoovian accent. Fortunately they don't show up much.
* Each of the trolls in ''[[Homestuck]]'' has a unique typing quirk that apparently mirrors how they actually speak: Kanaya Carefully Enunciates Every Word She Says; tAVROS, uHH, tENDS TO FALTER; Eridan has a kind of wwavy soundin accent; Vriska is very dramaaaaaaaatic; KARKAT IS ALWAYS RAGING AT SOMETHING; 2ollux 2peak2 with a lii2p; and so on.
* [http://cyantian.net/blog/2010/08/06/08062010/ Darrik] of ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'', when he's [[Translation Convention|speaking English]].
* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', Euryale's southern accent is rendered this way.
* In ''[[Bloody Urban]]'', Angelica speaks vvith a vvery thiick Яussian accent, vvhiich iis rendered like thiis.
* Rarely used in ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'', but when it was used (such as in [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=36 this strip]), it was used to great comic effect.
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* Keith Jackson and Maxie Dasai in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' both have their accents rendered in the dialogue itself. Notably, their accents are almost identical. Rein Bumgarner of v4 also has a notable German accent shown in his dialogue. Iris Landon of ''Evolution'' is also an example of this trope, speaking with a Southern accent that is always written out.
* A natural part of attempting to write an accent on ''[[The Gungan Council]]'', such as with Mao and Steph.
* Technical support scam baiters on YouTube often title their videos after pronunciations characteristic of an Indian accent, particularly "wiruses" and "dextop".
* There's a [https://www.deviantart.com/mr-culexus/art/GUD-FUMPIN-Hoo-boy-yez-98190420 crossover] by Mr.Culexus where a [[Girl Genius|Jäger]] meets an [[Warhammer 40,000|Ork]] ("Wot?"). It had to happen.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' episode "Dear Diary" the Chipettes' babysitter not only speaks in this type of accent, but also '''writes that way''', setting up the conflict in the plot.
== [[Other Media]] ==
* Read many forums on 'talk like a pirate day' an be sure ya sorery wretchers bain't so cussed blinded tha cha cannaugh make 'eads er tailses uv wot we's been sayings.
** [[LOL Speak]]. Givz hedakes bi lokin at it. Er.. gives headaches by looking at it...
** Also, any forum where people are quoting [[The Room|Tommy Wiseau]]. Oh hai, Mahk! Yuuah TERRING mi APAHT, Lisa!
* In
** Example: "Wants pawn term dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner ladle cordage honor itch offer lodge, dock florist.
** Translation: "Once upon a time, there was a
*** That's not extreme Funetik Aksent, that's extreme use of homonyms.
*** The usual term for that is
* The [[Let's Play|LPer]] [[Electrical Beast]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayeMqizulX0 is probably an example of a human actually talking like an Ork.]
* One player on the ''[[Champions Online]]'' boards presents all his posts in capital letters and phonetic spelling in the manner of, say, the [[Incredible Hulk]] 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.
* In ''[[Time Fcuk]]'', all the people that send "text messages" to you enunciate each letter individually.
* Xenophobia in the early 20th century
== [[Real Life]] ==
* When John F. Kennedy held his speech at the Berlin Wall, he had a note with the foreign language sentences: "Ish bin ein Bearleener" and "kiwis Romanus sum". Correct German and Latin spelling is "Ich bin ein Berliner" and "Civis Romanus sum".
** Note: the Romans pronounced the letter "v" as "wuh". E.g. ''servus'', "slave", was pronounced "saer-WOOS".
* We'd be spared all this nonsense if everyone just
* Katakana is used by the Japanese to make foreign languages easier for them to read (and pronounce, [[Japanese Ranguage|just with a lack of 'L's]]), the foreign language in question being written in a phonetic Japanese accent.
** For example, 'chocolate cake' becomes 'chokorēto kēki" (which sounds more like 'chocoretoh cakey' written in ''English'' phonetics) but spelling varies with individuals' own
*** [[
* In Spanish, differences between dialects of the language can be either: variations in the grammar, dialects having unique words proper of them, or variations in the locations of the tonal syllable in a determined word. The latter one meaning that, when wrote, the same word can have the tilde(graphical accent) in different syllables(or be missing in one of the writings) depending on the dialect.
* American native-speakers of Spanish who went to school (that is, first learned to write) in English will sometimes write Spanish using English phonetics—the h vs. j thing, for instance. Left uncorrected, this can be a problem if they later take Spanish (foreign language) Class and [[Face Palm|lose points for spelling.]]
* [[Sarah Palin]], like [[George W. Bush]], pronounces "nuclear" as "noo-kyoo-lur". She pronounced it correctly in her acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention—but only because the text, as flashed to her on the teleprompters, included such lines as "build more '''new-clear''' plants" and "Terrorist states are seeking '''new-clear''' weapons".
** But [[Family Guy|it's noo-kyoo-lur, dummy, the "s" is silent!]]
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