Everyone has an accent. As a rule, it is a marker for the place where someone grew up, or in some cases of celebrities, a rich person annoyed trying a new character. But did you know Fortnite The players also have their own accent?
The so-called “Fortnite accent” refers to the way players speak while playing Battle Royale online massively popular of Epic Games. After looking at 20 solid minutes of youtube shorts and tiktoks on this subject, I determined that it is a specific kind of your joyful and acute that looks very much like the stereotype of a teenage girl who has raised, or at the end of the even declarations in a way that looks like a question. Or, like a Reddit user asking how to lose the accent Put it, “I speak like an 8 year old child.” Unfortunately, their plea for help only obtained one answer: “What is the name of the gods is an accent of Fortnite.”
For years, on YouTube and Tiktok, the players have recorded themselves playing while Speaking In THE accentOr trying not To do it. (Helmet warning: there are a lot of cries in these clips.)
Adam Aleksic, linguist and author who goes through online Nerd etymology, courageously I spent three hours From his only wild and precious life listening to videos of the so-called accent of Fortnite. He describes the trend as “a rapid word and a strong increase in intonations, almost as if they had to communicate a feeling of excitation or shock they have just experienced”. He continues by explaining that the accent is functional: it transmits reactions to what is happening in the game, but this is also done for “social performance”. This is part of a greater “ludolect”, he says, which is a specific dialogue for a game.
Communities often create their clean languagesWhether it is the slang they use or the specific way they talk to each other; Even couples develop their own codes. It is logical that video games, which introduce new worlds and rules to respect, follow the same model.
Although I do not think that the Fortnite accent has something to be ashamed, in itself, if you want to shake it, treat it like any other type of code switching. Focus on how you say the words, listen to how the speakers where you want to look like talking and practicing, practicing, practicing. If this worked for my friends who managed to abandon their Boston accents, it can surely work for you – at least until you have some drinks deeply.
