Do the people in Reniassance festivals pccurring in Brotain also speak with faked British accents, or do they ise faked French/Iralian accents?

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• OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Renaissance fairs are an American thing. They don't exist in the UK.

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You say that very confidently and are pretty well upvoted but I found several in a quick search:

    jorvikvikingfestival.co.uk tewkesburymedievalfestival.org fantasyforest.co.uk www.renaissancefaire.co.uk

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    • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can find any number of re-enactment events/groups across the UK from Romans to Vikings to the Sealed Knot to WW2. For most of those Medieval festivals, especially the ones celebrating an event or place (second and fourth links - the first and fourth aren’t relevant to this), it tends to be a more touristy event rather than one visitors would get dressed up and involved in (until recently with the US influence).

      Summer Court Renaissance Fair claims to be one of the first US-style ren fairs:

      On the 6th of August 2022, we hosted one of the first American-style ren faires to make it to the UK!

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    • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is this 'renaissance fair' branding is a new thing? I did a few historical/fantasy weekend larps when I was younger but they were never called 'renaissance fairs'.

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    • pandarisu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They might exist, but they aren’t widely known about like they are in the USA

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    • harrywrecker@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I've never heard of a renaissance fair over here. And one of the examples you give, jorvik viking festival, is surely set several centurias before the renaissance.

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are super niche here. The vast majority of people will never have heard of them except in American TV.

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    • squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You call a fantasy event a renaissance festival?

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    • Hogger85b@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      https://loxwoodjoust.co.uk/immersive-festival/ I think is closest to American ren faire.

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  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Renaissance fairs are an American thing. They don’t exist in the UK.

    I don’t know the UK, so I might be wrong, but it’s not an US only thing (beside the naming).

    I’ve seen various form of medieval markets/festivals on several continental Europe countries, and I don’t see why it wouldn’t cross the channel. Even though, Historical re-enactment is a niche hobby, it’s not that uncommon to find group focused on the a given historical period caring a lot about the details, no matter if they re-enact the Viking, The crusade, or Napoleon’s army (If you visit Belgium during the Waterloo battle anniversary, you can see these groups re-enacting the battle). LARP is also a thing in the whole western Europe, it’s way less realistic as we do have elves and orcs, the biggest worldwide runs in Germany Trailer and UK has also some big ones and a lot of smaller ones.

    So I’m sorry to disagree with your claim

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    • veroxii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They exist here in Australia too. Which is a Commonwealth country with lots of English influenced heritage and culture.

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  • mineralfellow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I watched a catapult fire projectiles into a castle moat outside of Cardiff at a medieval fair. Also got propositioned by a Welsh girl, but couldn’t understand what she was saying.

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yakkie-dah = hello; good morning/day; yes; correct; goodbye Boy-o = boy Ma-fan-way = girl Cmyru-way = motorway Cmyru-shypi = shop Cmyru-foni = phone Cymru-nana = banana Llllllgoogllgoogll-y-cymrnllllll = the/a/I/you/we/us/him/her/them/up/down/this/that/those

      Now you can speak Welsh or, should I say, Yakkie-Cymru.

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  • nslatz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While not a renaissance fair exactly, there is a jousting tournament in Leeds Castle in Kent once or twice a year. It’s a lot of fun with armour, swords, horses, the whole shebang.

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  • Hogger85b@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    https://loxwoodjoust.co.uk/immersive-festival/

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pity. It isn’t even my thing but the few I have been to I have enjoyed. Kinda cool seeing how glass and metal tools were made back in the day.

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• EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What makes you think there are Renaissance festivals in the UK?

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  • Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They just call them festivals and dress nicer.

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  • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s indeed renaissance festivals in UK.

    I’m pretty sure they pretend to speak old English there.

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  • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why wouldn’t they?

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    • br3d@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because we have a lot of history. If we’re doing an historic festival it would be more specific about the period, not just some homogeneous “past”. But that said, such festivals are quite rare anyway

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• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why would they speak French or Italian? The Rennaisance happened in Britain too and they spoke ye olde English back then.

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  • Countess425@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Word on the street is that American English is actually closer to the English spoken by the British when they first landed and colonized the Americas. After the war they went back to their lil island and forgot how to pronounce their Rs.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Americans repeatingly say this in the vague hope that if they say it enough times it will rewrite history and become true. There’s absolutely no evidence that that is the case.

      Realistically when you think about it it makes no sense, why would American English be closer to old English than British English? By the time of the colonisation no one spoke old English anymore anyway, so American English is no more likely to be like it than British English. Even if it was why would the current American form not have changed, if apparently the British form has changed?

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    • gothic_lemons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yo my dude! Me and the Boston Boardwalking Composite got your fuckin back.

      bbc.com/…/20180207-how-americans-preserved-britis…

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    • blackfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Americans parrot this point. Its not true but sounds like it could be, so it sticks.

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    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Simply not true, nonsense made up by a journalist when they had some column inches to fill.

      Their “source” was the way Bostonians pronounce one single word

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    • yata@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You should never trust the word on the street, it is prone to lying.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Speaking as an American, when I was doing the ren fair thing… I used a shitty French accent and told people it was burgundeon.

  It’s bullshit, but a) it was different b) it was fun being “the bad guys”and picking fights (ahem duels) and c) the rest of my costume was fairly on point, as a musketeer- either one of the king’s or Cardinal Reichleiu’s.

  It was a really shitty French accent. I apologize to the French for that crime….

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While we’re working on your spelling, it’s

    Burgundian

    Which, en français, would be

    Bourguignon (boor geen yone)

    But of course you weren’t doing French, you were doing English in a terrible fake French accent so maybe your spelling is a more accurate representation!

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But of course you weren’t doing French, you were doing English in a terrible fake French accent so maybe your spelling is a more accurate representation!

      we will go with that and not my bad spelling and mobile being of no help.

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  • crypto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Richelieu?

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cardinal Reichlieu

      The “evil mastermind” in Les Trois Mousquetaires by Dumas and with, uh, numerous adaptations into film as “The three musketeers”

      He was a historical figure and the chief minister to King Lois XIII.

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So long as you sounded like the French knight in Monty Python and the holy grail, you’ll have a good chunk of Britain backing you up.

    Monty Python - The French Taunter

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not really been a big thing here until the American influence has sparked interest.

  When you can go and watch the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, tar barrelling or the Haxey Hood, there’s less interest in Medieval cosplay.

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  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s fair. In the UK if you wanna see some old stuff you can just… go see some old stuff.

    Meanwhile my entire town(and actually the majority of the state lol) barring like three houses was burned quite literally to the ground during the civil war so nothing predates that.

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    • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s fair. In the UK if you wanna see some old stuff you can just… go see some old stuff.

      You have effigy mounds, Pueblo villages and no end of fascinating ancient sites.

      Anyway, this did inspire me to start !britishfolktraditions@feddit.uk

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    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, they didn’t let Sherman finish.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I kinda miss Morris dancing

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    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve always viewed the decline in incidences of Morris Dancing within my lifetime as a reassuring sign of progress.

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    • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are a lot of new sides being started these days adding all sorts of variety to the mix - it’s not just folks in straw hats and white outfits these days. I follow a few, like Blackthorn Border Morris (although they seem to be going with Blackthorn Ritualistic Folk) and Blackpowder Morris.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Despite being in America, the one here is not called a Ren Fest, but a Medieval Faire. It’s also held at a B&B which was built to look like a medieval castle on the inside and the outside. I go for the music, which is lots of fun. The falconry demonstration can be neat too.

  There are vendors which sell stupid ‘magic’ stuff, but it’s pretty decent overall.

  Much better, however, is the Feast of the Hunter’s Moon in Lafayette, Indiana, which is the same idea as a Renaissance Festival, except for Colonial America/France and the indigenous American nations that lived in Indiana at the time… The food is more authentic and the costumes are amazing. There are dozens of regiments that march through the field and they set up and live like it was the late 1700s. It’s probably the only time you can get rabbit stew in Indiana.

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• metostopholes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Whoa, is that the Ren Fest in Larkspur? I spent many summer days there when I lived in Colorado.

  Or is there a standardized fake castle gate you can order premade?

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  • weiln12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought this looked like Bristol in Wisconsin. I can say it’s definitely NOT Phoenix…there’s actual trees in this pic. 🤣

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  • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is Larkspur. I’m from Denver, and recognized it immediately (also I image searched Larkspur ren faire to double check I wasn’t misremembering what it looks like). I’m sure other ren-faires have similar things, but that castle facade has been there since at least the 1980s, and I kind of doubt that was something you could get pre-fabricated back then.

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  • frickineh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re right, this is from the one in Larkspur.

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    • scumola@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup. Larkspur. I’d know it anywhere.

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  • skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This looks exactly like the one we're about to attend soon in North Carolina. I'm pretty sure there actually is just a prefab castle wall company that's cranking these out.

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  • zenharbinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Totally thought it was the one in MD

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• Hogger85b@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I LARP with medieval theme. Most speak English...most don't verily and ye (which is wrong as y is th anyway,). Some out in Scots accents for Celtic twist and some dinput on French accent for the rennaisance France flaire. But most just talk normally.

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  • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Used in place of the it’s wrong, it’s just pronounced the.

    There was a ye though! It was the second person plural subject word (singular was thou). So we used to have a more official word for y’all when used as a subject. Y’all is cool though, we should all adopt it. I hate saying “you guys” or something, so awkward sounding.

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    • leftleaninghaggis@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ‘Ye’ as second person plural is very much a thing in Ireland, especially in the west, as in “Are ye going out tonight”.

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    • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Stairs intently in southern US vernacular English

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    • BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Really happy to see people accepting “y’all” lol, It just makes so much sense!

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    • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hear ye, hear ye! We do still use this sometimes.

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    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So, like “thee”?

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• JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  British Renaissance Fair(e) may be redundant like “naan bread” or “muay thai boxing” 🙄

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• doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I always try to fake Andre the Giant.

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  • fleabomber@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t fake Andre the giant. It comes from the heart.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They should at least speak in middle english.

  Based on renaissance fairs there were no farmers back then.

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  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s also a problem with SCA events. Everyone wants to play as gentry.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They speak with a Georgian accent. With is the closest to the old anglican accent.

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• salton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Palistinians support Hamas.

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