Accents.

Article HERE wonders why everybody on Game of Thrones has a different accent.

I don't watch the show, I like to think I'm a little better than sitting around watching fairies fight off unicorns with pixie dust and magic.

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), "didn't you ask over five years ago how we even know how people from centuries ago talked anyways?"

Sigh. OF COURSE I did. Sigh (again.)

I had never watched it before, but the other day I stumbled onto about 10 minutes of the HBO show Rome. Some dude's yapping with his girl, and all of a sudden I'm like... is that a pseudo British accent? Hmm, I think, is that how Romans spoke? Lilting British accents? Then it occurs to me...how would we possibly have any idea how the acient Romans spoke? Are there tapes laying around; did we find an old version of YovTvbe? I mean, for all we know the Romans shouted at each other at the top of their lungs "HI REMUS HOW ARE YOU!!!" "JULIUS I AM FINE!!!! YOU ARE LOOKING GOOD!!" Or maybe like Buford Pusser. "Et tu, Brutus? Aw heck, giton outta heya now boy, I'm fixin' a die!!"

So then who's the wizard deciding "you know, I bet they spoke THIS way..."? It's not okay for us just to say "you know what, we have no idea how ancient Romans spoke, so everybody's just keeping their normal fucking voices"? Or hell, if it's a bunch of Italians, wouldn't the default accent be like this guy's: