I've tried a mud a while back that altered the way you spoke. For example my char was speaking in common and I typed:
"Say, Hello, How are you. I'm Rya. Is that a rose in your hair?"
It would appear on the screen like:
Rya says, "Hullo. How are ya. I'm Rya. Is dat ah rus in ya hair?"
Or something similar to that. That was unique to me, since I've never seen that in a mud. I didn't hate or love it. I didn't stay on the MUD that long to really get into it.
But as for players adding the accent themselves, sometimes it can add to the RP, but sometimes it can just be annoying. I used to play this RPG on AOL in their chatrooms. It was a band of characters that would all have the same speech pattern. I had no clue what they were talking about. Every time a character would say something to my character, I would have to Instant Message the player to find out what the heck they were saying. I mean, that's a little too much for me. But that's just my opinion.
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