Translation Team: Please stop doing this...

[LineageRazor]

Urianger? Unnecessary (totally imo).

Honestly, given his personality, I get the impression that Urianger's archaic dialogue is a deliberate affectation he adopted while studying his dusty tomes. He's totally an ancient lore nerd; I'll bet dollars to donuts that, back in his high-school/college days (or Eorzean equivalent), he started talking the way he does to get geek cred among his scholarly peers. I very much doubt he was raised to speak the way he does.

As a bonus, he's clearly an introvert, and the complicated dialogue likely intimidates riff-raff that would otherwise pester him. Not that that stops individuals like Moenbryda...

[Sadana]

Honestly, given his personality, I get the impression that Urianger's archaic dialogue is a deliberate affectation he adopted while studying his dusty tomes. He's totally an ancient lore nerd; I'll bet dollars to donuts that, back in his high-school/college days (or Eorzean equivalent), he started talking the way he does to get geek cred among his scholarly peers. I very much doubt he was raised to speak the way he does.

As a bonus, he's clearly an introvert, and the complicated dialogue likely intimidates riff-raff that would otherwise pester him. Not that that stops individuals like Moenbryda...

Hm, it's a stretch... :/
To me, it seems more that the translation team wanted Urianger to be stuffy and pedantic, but didn't realize you could convey this manner of speaking without relying on fakey-fakey "ye olde english".


English has a formal/polite mode. We just don't realize it is separate from our informal mode of speaking (unless it's extreme: "I hope you are well, Mr. Anderson." as opposed to "sup dawg".) since we flow in and out of it so easily in our normal method of interacting with others. Going in for that well-paying job interview is a good example of when folks use 'formal' English. I'm just saying I would personally have preferred Urianger to sound more like a professor of law from a university than a walking copy of the King James bible. :/

(To add: I have the voice overs set to Japanese. Urianger's voice is this calm, slow, drawn out, low purr. To see the text dialogue in Puritan-ese... the disconnect is real, y'all. =_= )

[Verlyn]

Hm, it's a stretch... :/
To me, it seems more that the translation team wanted Urianger to be stuffy and pedantic, but didn't realize you could convey this manner of speaking without relying on fakey-fakey "ye olde english".

Agreed. Urianger's olde english is way over the top. His voice acting, combined with a stiff manner of speaking, could have conveyed this sentiment just fine I think.

[Kiroh]

Honestly, given his personality, I get the impression that Urianger's archaic dialogue is a deliberate affectation he adopted while studying his dusty tomes. He's totally an ancient lore nerd; I'll bet dollars to donuts that, back in his high-school/college days (or Eorzean equivalent), he started talking the way he does to get geek cred among his scholarly peers. I very much doubt he was raised to speak the way he does.

As a bonus, he's clearly an introvert, and the complicated dialogue likely intimidates riff-raff that would otherwise pester him. Not that that stops individuals like Moenbryda...

Not entirely true, as someone who read quite a lot of older books as a kid I can tell you that it often does bleed into your everyday vocabulary without even realizing it. For instance, when I use quite people tell me I sound like an old man, it's not intentional and I don't particularly notice unless pointed out by someone else.