"Mayhap"

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

They all have British accents because all the voice actors are British. The English voice acting studio is in London.

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Oh so that’s why Ga Bu sounds like Oliver Twist.

Let us quit this thread.

[11:15]Udutai: Mayhap they will return to their mothers in time. Mayhap they will not. Mayhap you can help?

3 times in one text xD

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Originally Posted by Ryldaun

[11:15]Udutai: Mayhap they will return to their mothers in time. Mayhap they will not. Mayhap you can help?

3 times in one text xD

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But would you remark if they used "maybe" or "perhaps" in the same rythym?

Most likely I would not remark it as much with words that are more common. But I think it is always good to switch it up a little bit. Every few lines a perhaps, maybe or mayhap. The way it is now you have mayhap in 9 of 10 lines in the main story.

It's was fine for me until the Domans started talking like that. Really? You couldn't think of anything to differentiate?

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Originally Posted by Ryldaun

[11:15]Udutai: Mayhap they will return to their mothers in time. Mayhap they will not. Mayhap you can help?

3 times in one text xD

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I'm pretty sure that's being done deliberately, and not out of laziness or lack of vocabulary. They didn't begin three sentences in a row with the same word by accident, or because they simply couldn't think of any alternatives. It's a linguistic technique to link the three possibilities through choice of words. It's almost like "mayhap" is serving as a bullet point, or to present each in a multiple-choice "A, B, or C" fashion.

Nevertheless...

The ARR dialogue really liked to use overuse a few words/phrases:

• Mayhap
• Must Needs
• Selfsame
• Pray return

Those are just some of the ones I remember the most. Don't even get me started on the "pirate talk" a lot of the characters in Limsa loved to use.

The dialogue at least seemed to get more varied from Heavensward onwards, but then comes the overuse of the nodding. I still remember one of those cutscenes where one character nods and then the camera slowly pans to everyone else in the room nodding back and then the character who originally nodded nods again!