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== Esher's accent ==
'''Posted: Thursday May 18, 2006'''<br />
''Original: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120212032622/http://forums.drcsite.org/viewtopic.php?p=16674&sid=61cba23d6291418940d86c26fdad3587#16674 Aitrus/Atrus/A'trus]''

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JWPlatt wrote:

Actually, I figured David Ogden Steirs was never provided a pronunciation coach, and that by the time anyone heard the tapes, he had flown back to his far away villa somewhere, maybe Australia, and the FU clause in his contract said he didn't have to redo it once the clueless studio producer signed off on it.</blockquote>

David Ogden Stiers (complete aside: I can never remember how to spell his last name, so I looked it up. Wikipedia has both "Steirs" and "Stiers", IMDb and the "unofficial David Ogden Stiers website" have "Stiers". So I'm going with "Stiers".) did a great job pronouncing "D'ni" correctly for Dr. Watson's audio in Uru. 

When he came to do the voice for Myst V, he wanted Esher to gave a harder glottal stop. Rand was ok with Esher's pronunciation. I didn't hear it for quite a while. Rand (knowing how upset I was with the original Catherine's voice in Riven, which contributed to having all of her dialog replaced by Rengin's voice-over) didn't let me hear it right away. And before he did let me hear it, he warned me that I wouldn't like it. 

Rand has his own theories for Esher's pronunciation. 

I'm sticking with "speech impediment". 

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