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I know this is a rather silly questions, but how do Brits feel when we Americans try our darnest to try to sound like a "proppa" Ork? Would you rather we just talk like Americans and make them sound like southern hillbilly and rednecks who are overly excited about their trucks and guns, or if we actually try to do an Orkish accent only for it to sound really bad?

Could you say that it's like when British people try to say quotes from the Terrans in Starcraft being 'rednecks in space'?

I ask this as an Ork player who lives in the rural southern state of Georgia. Should I try to spin my Orks saying "yeehaw!", "get e're done!", or "howdy ya'll!" or should I try my best to make a bad American cockney accent?

I would rather people in general did not talk like Orks because it is a bit weird and I'm not a fan of hard RP.

 Gert wrote:
I would rather people in general did not talk like Orks because it is a bit weird and I'm not a fan of hard RP.

I mean I got the Orks because I love to RP, it helps me with the fact you tend to lose often. Then again with Orks I prefer fun and roleplay over competition. I also have a variety of characters that I generally get into the RP mood with in other fandoms, so I guess you'd be straight outta luck with me in that regards. lol

Nah mate, we shout 'waaagh' back at them and treat those 'umies to a good crumpin'.

All the while laughing in British.

Deadnight wrote:
Nah mate, we shout 'waaagh' back at them and treat those 'umies to a good crumpin'.

All the while laughing in British.

I mean, I won't be so loud to disrupt the store, but I will do the WAAAGH! when it comes time for in the game and I'm not the only one at my store to try to say the word 'ummie' with an southern American twang. Although it defiantly doesn't come 'natural' to me.

I'd much rather say "get some!" before I open fire. Like in the action movies.

I have a STRONG feeling that there is some irl subtext to this query which we aren't seeing...

Jaredthefox92 wrote:
I know this is a rather silly questions, but how do Brits feel when we Americans try our darnest to try to sound like a "proppa" Ork?

As long as you, your opponent and others are the club/group/store you're playing at are having fun - that's all that matters.

I could not care one bit less if you're imitating an accent or not. HECK go for it! Have some fun! It's not as if we Brits get the accents right either.


I mean have you seen British comedy? Making fun of ourselves is a time honoured pastime.

Jaredthefox92 wrote:

Deadnight wrote:
Nah mate, we shout 'waaagh' back at them and treat those 'umies to a good crumpin'.

All the while laughing in British.

I mean, I won't be so loud to disrupt the store, but I will do the WAAAGH! when it comes time for in the game and I'm not the only one at my store to try to say the word 'ummie' with an southern American twang. Although it defiantly doesn't come 'natural' to me.

I'd much rather say "get some!" before I open fire. Like in the action movies.

^primes stikkbomb^

'Come an' 'Ave a go if youz thinks yer 'ard enough!'

Don't see why not. Cockney though? Never thought of it that way meself.

 Haighus wrote:
Don't see why not. Cockney though? Never thought of it that way meself.

Cockney isn't even heard of in where I live, minus a tiny few bit of Hollywood movies. Then again I'm all the way here over across the pond.

I'm British

for me, fill yer boots and enjoy the insanity of it all. Orks & Orcs can be whatever you want them to be

I mean everything in 40k is British in some way. Talking like an Ork is fun.

 Gert wrote:
I would rather people in general did not talk like Orks because it is a bit weird and I'm not a fan of hard RP.

We should all endeavour to make sure we're not having fun the wrong way.

The orks as conceived did have a lot of late 70s/early 80s "british soccer hooligan" about them.

Only because they were based off "British soccer hooligans" and not "Dutch soccer hooligans", they were just a bit naff, innit?

Seriously. Juventus fans were nuts. The british ones were just ... wossname ... "not quite all right in the head".

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I mean everything in 40k is British in some way. Talking like an Ork is fun.

 Gert wrote:
I would rather people in general did not talk like Orks because it is a bit weird and I'm not a fan of hard RP.

We should all endeavour to make sure we're not having fun the wrong way.

We should all endeavour to make sure we're not giving an opinion in case HBMC disagrees with us.

As to the OP, I couldn't really care less, though if you try to conduct the entire game in a mock cockney accent I may ask you to stop just for my own sanity.

Depends.

Online, certainly- like most 40k memes, it's just pure cringe.

Unless you're actually an ork cockney geezer, it's cultural appropriation and you should be cancelled like Apu.

Its fine, the accent is vanishing so its a good thing it is around in some form.

If I ever start an Ork army (again), I'll be sure to talk like Dad from Superbro just to annoy all prop' ork lingo fans

I mean, GW "translates" the way orks speak. So while it's that cockney accent in english in german books it's a rather unique way of speaking, it has some berlin influences but is far from any actual german accent.
Going from that I'd say it's okay for Muricans to make up their own Ork accent .

 Formosa wrote:
Its fine, the accent is vanishing so its a good thing it is around in some form.

Oh god, can you imagine MODERN Orks?
"'e totawwy dissed me fam ynaaatimeeeen blud innit"
Its bad enough watching Arse TV.
Yes I am an old fart.

As.for hillbilly Orks, sure, why not? As an outsider the accent doesn't quite have that same air of quiet menace, unless they're inquiring if I am indeed from round here I had an old idea to try for a small force in the same style as QotSA's Go With The Flow video, but I don't think it would really work nowadays.

Jaredthefox92 wrote:
I mean I got the Orks because I love to RP, it helps me with the fact you tend to lose often. Then again with Orks I prefer fun and roleplay over competition. I also have a variety of characters that I generally get into the RP mood with in other fandoms, so I guess you'd be straight outta luck with me in that regards. lol

It's just not something I enjoy all that much. I'll play to the character of an army, like not giving up ground when I play my Iron Warriors or doing mad charges with my Cults & Militia but I wouldn't be caught dead shouting "Blood for the Blood God" and the such.
Other people enjoy that which is fine, you do you, but if someone is asking they're getting a "Please don't" in reply.

I hate when anyone tries to talk like an ORK, even worse when they try and type out what they are saying as they were an ORK. It’s a major cringe!

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
I mean, GW "translates" the way orks speak. So while it's that cockney accent in english in german books it's a rather unique way of speaking, it has some berlin influences but is far from any actual german accent.
Going from that I'd say it's okay for Muricans to make up their own Ork accent .

I hadn't thought of that. What is the German equivalent for a grease-monkey bar-fighting lout? I've seen German bikers in their natural habitat and they seemed very different from the American variety.

I think that an American ork (such as it is) would hail from the East Coast, probably Joisey. Get that super-strong New Yawk accent going, like a Goodfella or something.

Commissar von Toussaint wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
I mean, GW "translates" the way orks speak. So while it's that cockney accent in english in german books it's a rather unique way of speaking, it has some berlin influences but is far from any actual german accent.
Going from that I'd say it's okay for Muricans to make up their own Ork accent .

I hadn't thought of that. What is the German equivalent for a grease-monkey bar-fighting lout? I've seen German bikers in their natural habitat and they seemed very different from the American variety.

I think that an American ork (such as it is) would hail from the East Coast, probably Joisey. Get that super-strong New Yawk accent going, like a Goodfella or something.

...or they could be from BAAAASTAN.

Well, as Orks are supposed to be football hooligans, wouldn't American Orks just be jocks/incredibly enthusiastic sports fans? Or are those better behaved than their British counterparts?

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
I mean, GW "translates" the way orks speak. So while it's that cockney accent in english in german books it's a rather unique way of speaking, it has some berlin influences but is far from any actual german accent.
Going from that I'd say it's okay for Muricans to make up their own Ork accent .

Only works to an extend though. American shouting WAR on top of their lungs would probably stress the „R“, rather than swallow it cockney-style for WAAGH.

Pilum wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
Its fine, the accent is vanishing so its a good thing it is around in some form.

Oh god, can you imagine MODERN Orks?
"'e totawwy dissed me fam ynaaatimeeeen blud innit"
Its bad enough watching Arse TV.
Yes I am an old fart.

As.for hillbilly Orks, sure, why not? As an outsider the accent doesn't quite have that same air of quiet menace, unless they're inquiring if I am indeed from round here I had an old idea to try for a small force in the same style as QotSA's Go With The Flow video, but I don't think it would really work nowadays.

The orks on the planet Deliverance make you squeal like a Squigg...

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, as Orks are supposed to be football hooligans, wouldn't American Orks just be jocks/incredibly enthusiastic sports fans? Or are those better behaved than their British counterparts?

They are hooligans with a heavy overlay of the Mad Max aesthetic.

Americans definitely have a "hold my beer" element to them, and Florida Man is up for everything.

The thing is, the UK has yokels and Yorkshiremen, who are closer in concept to American Rednecks. The Cockney are an urban phenomenon, and that's why guys from Bahston or New Yawk seem more appropriate.

Though there surely is a place for honky-tonk orks.

Commissar von Toussaint wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Well, as Orks are supposed to be football hooligans, wouldn't American Orks just be jocks/incredibly enthusiastic sports fans? Or are those better behaved than their British counterparts?

They are hooligans with a heavy overlay of the Mad Max aesthetic.

Americans definitely have a "hold my beer" element to them, and Florida Man is up for everything.

The thing is, the UK has yokels and Yorkshiremen, who are closer in concept to American Rednecks. The Cockney are an urban phenomenon, and that's why guys from Bahston or New Yawk seem more appropriate.

Though there surely is a place for honky-tonk orks.

That makes sense.
Maybe Greasers then? Both they and Orks like cars and leather.

TinyLegions wrote:

...or they could be from BAAAASTAN.

Orks be shipping up to Boston singin 'come on yiz good rats'

Bonus Internet points to anyone who gets the reference.

Also - space wolves in my mind are all damned bloody glasweigans. Or scots at the least.