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CHARACTER  STUDY  CHART :  SPEECH- Wolfgund Waidmanns  

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► OF  SPOKEN  LANGUAGES    :  Lowgerman, Italian (although very much broken), Latin and eventually she learns english based on her old Lowgerman. Wolf had lived for over ten years in Pisa and naturally had learned the most spoken language enough that she can communicate with the people she lives with. However, although its still a few hundred years before the Hanseatic Pact, Lowgerman is already a wildly flourishing tradinglanguage that would through the hanseatic pact eventually a few hundred years later be reintreduced into english and the nordic languages in such a manner that english that already developted as german from lowgerman took in new terms and nowdays one can not hear a sentences In Bergen without hearing a lowgerman word in it. However just because she speaks lowgerman, does not mean everyone speaking lowgerman understands her as her dialect specifically is from around Cologne so someone who learned lowgerman by the Northsea or eastsea would have still great problems understanding her, let alone someone who would speak modern german. Wolf speaks her broken italian and lowgerman with the people in the convent, she speaks lowgerman with the people in the streets especially by the harbour and she speaks latin (or more over writes and reads it) when researching. The only person with whom she actually spoke latin was the Alchmemist / her Worlds Lizard and when he as a nobleman who had joined the Templarorder as a Brother in his youth eventually took her in as his “squire” (as a disguise for her) for her to join Friedrich the II , they continued to speak latin with eachother to keep their conversations private. Wolf will therefor be always understood, but she only seldomly talks to people where she has not to use hand and feet as a extra communicationtool.

► DEMEANOUR   :    Playful, friendly, restless.

► POSTURE    :   Leaning on her Dane Axe, leaning her chin on her hands.

► HABITS   :  Wolf has the habit of putting a singsang behind her voice, sounding as if she is permanently humming.

► ACCENT: “country” │ “backwoods” │ “sailor” │ “noble” │ foreign speaker  What should not be forgotten about Lowgerman in contrast to modern german is that its the language both english and german developted from (before both going pickpocketing in other languages grammar and vocabulary), so the words are sounding a lot of more “softer” and bleeding into eachother smoother than modern german would sound. Her accent is still very foreign for a modern english speaker but it would be also foreign for a modern german speaker as lowgerman is indeed its own language.

► ELOQUENCE: educated │ uneducated │ doesn’t use conjunctions │ shortens words │ just makes up their own words! │ old English │dependent on mood or setting 

► TONE: loud │ soft │ room volume │ high pitched │ low pitched │seductive │velvety │ speech impediment │ abrasive │ gruff │ shrill │ booming │ matter-of-fact │ toneless │ husky │ gravelly │ breathy │ nasal │ barking │ chatty │ condescending │ musical │ suave │ world-weary │ brash │ authoritative 

► HABITS: refers to self in third person │ incorporates different languages/terms/sayings │ uses gender-specific terms │ adapts to audience │ changes pitch around animals or children │ shifts tone when lying │ gives others nicknames │ uses terms of respect towards others 

► VOICE REFERENCE: Using the Actor Anna Demetriou speaking “Sophia”   as a Reference . While Wolf has a tad deeper womenly voice than average its still  mellifluous and the permanent singsang in her voice makes her appear friendly. Its the moments when Wolf stops speaking where she gets dangerouse.

► BOLD  ALL  THAT  APPLY    :    arse.    ass.    asshole.    bastard.  bitch. bloody.    bugger.    bollocks.    chicken  shit.   crap.    cunt.    dick.    dickhead.    frick. fuck.  horseshit.    motherfucker.    piss.    prick.    screw.    shit.    shitass.    son  of  a  bitch.   twat.    wanker.    pussy.    dipshit. in all honesty, have you ever heard a native speaking german go at it? Wolf does not know half the vocables, but she does frequently uses every version of ass (Including the very famouse Arschgeige) because lowgerman as much as modern german is full of vulgarity. And just because the vulgaritys she uses are not in english, does not mean that she does not mean them in a vulgar way because she sure does.

► GIVEN  PROPER RELIGIOUS  CONTEXT   :   christ.   christ  on  a  bike.   christ  on  a  cracker.  christ on a crutch.  damn.    goddamn.    godsdamn.   hell.    holy  shit.    jesus.   jesus  christ.    jesus  h  christ.    jesus  h.    roosevelt  christ.    lord  sithis  have  mercy.    jesus,  mary  and  joseph.    sweet  jesus.    seven  hells.  Wolfs frequently uses “ Harrijasses!” which could be translated to “Lord Jesus / Herr Jesus”. However, cosidering her struggles with religion it is only a manner of speak and not meant in a religious manner.

► THIS  OR  THAT    :    contractions  or  enunciation   ?    straightforward or  cryptic    ?    jargon  or  toned    ?    complexity  or simplicity    ?    finding  the  right  word  or using  the  first  word  that  comes  to  mind   ?    masculinity,  neutrality,  or  femininity    ?    formalities  or  abrasiveness   ?    praise  or equivocation    ?    frankness  or lies   ?    excessive  or  minimal  hand  gestures    ?    name - calling  or  magnanimity    ?   friendly or  blunt  nicknames    ? 

► IMPORTANT  QUESTIONS. 

DO  PEOPLE  HAVE  A  HARD  TIME  UNDERSTANDING  OR  HEARING  YOUR  CHARACTER    ?     almost  always.    frequently.   rarely.   never. 

DOES YOUR  CHARACTER’S  POINT  COME  ACROSS  EASILY  WHEN  THEY  SPEAK    ? almost  always.    frequently.    sometimes.    rarely.    never.

WOULD  YOUR  CHARACTER  INITIATE  CONVERSATIONS    ?     almost  always.   frequently. sometimes.   rarely.    never. 

WOULD  YOUR  CHARACTER  BE  THE  ONE  TO  END  CONVERSATIONS    ?     almost  always.  frequently.   sometimes.   rarely.    never. 

WOULD  YOUR  CHARACTER  USE    ‘  WHOM  ’    IN  A  SENTENCE    ?  yes.    no.   only  ironically. 

YOUR  CHARACTER  WANTS  TO  MAKE  A  COUNTERPOINT,    WHAT  WORD  DO  THEY  USE    ?     but.    though.  although.  however.    perhaps.    mayhaps. 

HOW  DOES  YOUR  CHARACTER  END  CONVERSATIONS    ?   walk  away.    ask  if  that’s  everything.    say  that  that’s  everything.    give  a  proper  goodbye.   tell  their  company  they’re  done  here.    remain  quiet.    they  don’t. 

HOW  DOES  YOUR  CHARACTER  ADDRESS  OTHERS    ?     titles.   first  names. surnames.    full  names.   nicknames.  Wolf is not often talking with people with titles and surnames are not yet truely sticking around to people unless they are patronyms or matronyms. She would also not think about putting titles into her speech when referring to people with noble titles, unless its sarcastic. She either uses the first name or puts the persons Profession infront of the first name. “Schulze Heinreich!” with Schulze from Schultheiß, which would be the term for Mayor or “Fischer Frank” for that specific fisherman who is called Frank.

WHAT  SOCIAL  CLASS  WOULD  OTHERS  ASSUME  YOUR  CHARACTER  BELONGS  TO  AFTER  HEARING  THEM  SPEAK    ?    upper.    middle.   working.   lower.  In modern germany lowgerman is seen as the language of “the farmer at the edge of the country”. So to a modern speaker Wolf would sound very uncivilized, however for people of her time she would simply sound “Ah. Cologne with a bit of Frankenreich (france)” and thats about it. Wolf specifically is not a person who grew up as the lowest of the low- her father was a Hunter (Waidmann)  working for a king with a property frequently visited by a King to hunt, so she did grew up very safely  between noblemen visiting the property and later learned in a convent specifcally where children are send to to learn, so it is noticeable in her langauge for the people of her time that she is certainly above average educated.

IN  WHAT  WAYS  DOES  THE  WAY  YOUR  CHARACTER  SPEAK  STAND  OUT  TO  OTHERS    ?   accent.  vocabulary.    tone.    level.    politeness.    brusqueness.    it  doesn’t.