Btw minor note:
"You will have to tell me the details on the way, mon cher." should be
"You will have to tell me the details on the way, ma cherie or ma chere."

Unless Etain has even more hidden surprises down there...xP
This message was last edited by the player at 15:39, Wed 22 Jan 2020.

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I'm surrounded by Canadians, and that is how they address each other...

Well I never been to Canada but am half French irl.

Maybe it's something particular about Canadian French but can assure you in French French everything is gendered and mon cher is masculine.

Possibly.

I'll change it to be more French French, and ask my step grandmother what is up. She is pure French Canadian.

I'm curious too now, I know there is some differences with Canadian French so this could well be one of them. Let me know what she says!

You had me doubting but a quick google fu seems to reinforce my belief, especially this link which also explains well the difference between cher/chere and cheri/cherie depending on your intention:
https://moeby.tumblr.com/post/26014462397

I learned French in Scotland and France and now live in Canada. I find the French here is only about 75% intelligible to me with the accents and different use.

Well, she hasn't got back to me yet. But now that I am curious, having never even thought of it before, I've begun basic Googling to educate myself. And apparently there are some major differences.

https://unitedlanguagegroup.co...portant-differences/

In fact, just looking at the brief article, they may actually be saying "ma," but being ignorant of the language I might be assuming "mon," because of the different way they pronounce vowels.

Interesting. You learn something new every day!
This message was last edited by the player at 16:19, Wed 22 Jan 2020.

Not that I did well in french in school (barely passed) but I have heard french canadian is very different then proper french, due to increased English and the isolation

https://youtu.be/A9rh3lqdtT0
Was watching this but Marie's link is better, sums up succintly the differences. But this vid might still be useful for hearing said differences.

I'm coming to the conclusion Canadian French is really weird, or maybe it's just the Metropolitan French that is weird.
Makes me really want to go to Canada to see how many misunderstandings I would get into:

Bonjour monsieur! Vos gosses sont tres polis!!
What I want to say: Good day mister! Your kids are very polite!
What they will understand: Good day mister! Your testicles are very polished!
And that's the amazing story of how I will keep getting beat up in Canada and have no clue why.

Yes it's very possible the accent is affecting things too and could totally see "ma" being misheard as "mon". To be honest Canadian French to my ears sounds like ducks speaking French. But then to them my French would likely sound very arrogant and snotty, which adds to the irony that Canadian French is closer to how French nobility spoke at court.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:53, Wed 22 Jan 2020.

I'm actually going to introduce a civilised and polite dark elf, a skinny, clean shaven dwarf, and an imperial Black orc who's a member of the Reiksguard.

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Dm are you SURE the forces of chaos were defeated in this timeline?
At this point it's clear the chaos gods are just trolling Jareik and Etain is actually their dark champion, a perfidious sorceress of great evil and next to no virtue.

I may go to a few parties hosted by Slaanesh...

So I wanted to open this question to the group. Obviously I am writing Kargun's speech in a Scottish dialect. I recognise that could be hard to read or understand, particularly if your first language is not English (or even if it is!). If anyone would prefer I write in plain English please let me know and I don't mind changing.

I understand it just fine on my side. *thumbs up*

Yeah, it's all good.

Good enough this far, English isn't my mother's tongue but I have read Rob Roy (in english) and somehow managed, so I think it should be fine in the future too.

For clarity's sake, are we all seated together or did we divide between those who sat down with Etain and those who sat down with the coachman (aka me)? Ain't 100% clear there.

Am happy isolating myself from the main group (Jareik only really gets along with Gerhart so far after all+was on watch duty so didn't socialize in the coach) for a bit of drama/tension, but just wanted to make sure we are all on the same page.

Be as it may to be honest, don't get a sense that the place is so big or packed and noisy that things wouldn't be heard from one to the other.

Oh it isn't, there's only the roadwardens (a few of which leave anyways) and the barkeep besides us so we can definitely hear each other if we wanted.

But Etain's post semi answered my question I guess. Since Jareik isn't exactly on best of terms with Etain he wouldn't choose to sit next to her if there were other options available, so he didn't. And in doing so became the only one not to ruin her little tete a tete, you bunch of third wheels!

Since there were two booths at the back, and roadwardens were seated near the hearth I'm interpreting this as coachman claimed the first booth and Etain claimed the other, so we are in separate booths and Jareik is indeed being the edgy loner of the group, preferring to hang out with the coachman then the rest of you.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:42, Sun 26 Jan 2020.

People can choose to sit wherever their character would choose to sit, would Jareik choose to sit with the people he's to be on a mission with and try to talk shop or get to know them or just begrudging;y sit in a corner, having a drink.

Etain was kinda right on the money earlier when she said Jareik wasn't being a team player+didnt' travel a lot. In his head he imagines things going like this: arrive at village, team up with Gerhart and find the missing person, be done in a day or 2 tops, then get money and hopefully never see Etain and the rest again.

So from his perspective he has no desire to get to know the group besides maybe the dwarf. Even though he is cordial with the mage, he still has a healthy fear of her due to being superstitious.

By contrast, he spent the entire day on guard beside the coachman, even though they likely didn't say much during the journey, so he would be more interested in getting to know the coachman.

So yeah, sitting in a corner bregrudgingly it is :P
This message was last edited by the player at 20:44, Sun 26 Jan 2020.

Beware of Mages, I heard that they can explode, make you go bald or give you warts... Probably.

I mean you don't need to be magic to give people warts ;)

Sshhh! They don't know!

Editted my last post a little.