The World of Avlis

Hi
English is not my native language so I have some problems with dwarf's dialect. If you Can be so kind and give me some directions and lots of samples of it I'll be most hapy.

thank you

Sure, here you go: http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?t=20642

thanks that was wery helpfull but I meant speaking in english this way that eweryona could say I'm a dwarf....and have no problem (or meaby a little) to udenrstand what i'm saying (speaking in deform english not in dwarfish).

Well, here's a few tips to start:

Gorr is the most commonly used greeting.

drop the g on any word that ends with -ing and replace it with a '. Talking would be typed as Talkin'. I use -in's for words that would end in [/i]-ings[/i], like blessin's.

Use nae instead of just about any negative word.
Examples: I have nae seen ya around lately.
I am nae tree-huggin' elf!

Related: Use donae for do not and dinnae for did not.

Generally, I use ya instead of you.

These would be some good "rules" to start with, but I've always played my dwarf as having a "softer" accent than many others out there, so hopefully Stormhammer or some of the others will add their own opions to this.

EDIT: Oh yeah, gudein rois is commonly used as goodbye. Also, it's acceptable to refer to other dwarves as cousin, since they tend to look at other dwarves as part of an extended clan.

wow thanks for all the clarification, I should be able to understand Brother Thror now ...

the_dragonspeaker wrote:wow thanks for all the clarification, I should be able to understand Brother Thror now ...

Not likely