#at least Nigel Planer and Stephen Briggs are

[verdigrispatina]

I've mostly experienced Discworld through the audiobooks but recently I've been buying print copies of my favorites to have for referencing and loaning to friends and WOW, there's a lot of textual and visual quirks that don't carry over to the audiobooks!

The biggest ones I think are when characters' accents are written into the text and Death's dialogue being in a gothic font, but I'm skimming through Soul Music right now and just shouted because I noticed that Imp's dialogue always has extra L's because he's from Llamedos. That's such a funny small touch, I love it

If anybody has any favorite visual gags/quirks in the Discworld books, or just jokes that may not work in an audio format, please share!

#not sure if quirks or gags are the right words but idk what else to call these?? #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #audiobooks #I'm sure theres also some puns Ive missed in the audiobooks but I think the readers are generally good at getting those across #at least Nigel Planer and Stephen Briggs are #the new ones can be kind of hit or miss

[cosmik-homo]

So, I am pretty accent blind. that is, i can usually (usuually) ear when people have accents- but even if it’s acents i heard many times before, I am pretty bad at identifying them. so i tried googling ‘discworld audiobook accents’ to figure out what are these accents i’ve been hearing for a long time now been called, y’know,  and there were discussions of the different narrators, and somebody mentioned that they like that- i think it was Stephen Briggs? I’m not sure, it wasn’t Nigel Planer cuz i’m listening to him- does accents “not just for people but for different cultures, y’know? like, all the ubervaldians, be they humans or vampires or wereolves, have that sorta transylvanian (or at least fake dracula accent” and that was literally like a hammer to the head. cuz one side of my brain, who likes the Fake Dracula Accent, went “oooh angua hot :)”

and the other sound of my brain, romanian-transylvanian immigrant descendent, went “Angua but sounds like my elderly greataunts,,,,,, CHERI BUT SHE SOUNDS LIKE MY GREATAUNTS”