language/speech question

[merlin34baseball]

If a goblin grew up speaking elvish would he sound like an elf? Or do goblins always sound goblin like? I guess the question is almost a physical one, are the goblin vocal cords, etc., structured so they could speak elvish (and common) without a goblin accent?

Reason being I submitted a goblin who was raised by an elf. The goblin never learned goblin, just elvish and common.

Thanks!
Merlin34

[Hellblazer]

Pretty sure it would, but lets see what the gm's say

[darkstorme]

It wouldn't be so much a goblin "accent" as a certain sound to the voice.  Goblin voices are high and tend towards the screechy, and yes, in all likelihood, their vocal cords would never allow them a perfect reproduction of elven as spoken by an elf, or even a human.

[LightlyFrosted]

Well, so far as the facial structure goes, the entry in LORE for 'Goblin', LORE: Goblin , states that male goblins have long sharp canines that just out over the lower lip and that goblins in general have weak chins - making it reasonable that Goblins might have trouble with certain consonant sounds as a result of a pronounced overbite.  So far as 'accent' is concerned, that tends to be more the result of 'CSL' (Common as a Second Language) - and really, in many cases, the 'accent' that many goblins in Layonara tend to portray is that of someone who speaks common poorly, and in the third person.  

If a goblin of reasonable intelligence spoke common as a first language, they would have no more problems with sentence structure or part of speech than any other natural common-speaker, though if they were taught by an elf, I suppose they may have an elven(?) accent.  Racial morphism-wise, according to SpeechPathology.com, a pronounced overbite such as the one described for the majority of male goblins in LORE may cause difficulty in forming the hard consonant of /r/.

[EdTheKet]

Goblin voices are high and tend towards the screechy, and yes, in all likelihood, their vocal cords would never allow them a perfect reproduction of elven as spoken by an elf, or even a human.

Agreed.

Racial morphism-wise, according to SpeechPathology.com, a pronounced overbite such as the one described for the majority of male goblins in LORE may cause difficulty in forming the hard consonant of /r/.

And agreed here too
If a goblin of reasonable intelligence spoke common as a first language, they would have no more problems with sentence structure or part of speech than any other natural common-speaker, though if they were taught by an elf, I suppose they may have an elven(?) accent.[/quote]
Agreed!