![]() TavernBuild and manage your own fantasy tavern! Fully customise it with furniture, cosmetics, decorations, and entertainment for your guests. Spend your points in six technology trees relating to nature, building, cooking, brewing, socialising, and magic! Along this journey you'll gain experience to level-up and further customise your character. Travellers Rest will allow you to discover and craft a whole array of food, drink, and items. Create the perfect crisp lager or the wildest sour. ![]() Along your journey you’ll discover new things to brew, farm, cook, and build to create your perfect fantasy tavern.Ĭrafting and progressionBrew beers, distil spirits, and make wines. Based in a cheerful fantasy setting, Travellers Rest is home to people to meet, places to explore, and lost magic. You are an innkeeper, on a journey to transform a run-down tavern into a bustling social space. ![]() Travellers Rest is a tavern management game where you can brew your own beer, run a farm, and build relationships. More Reading – The Dialect of the Appalachian People by Wylene P.*NOTE: As the game is in early access not all of these features are implemented, check the early access description for details. Photography: Featured image – Public domain scenic image – Jason Greer What other funny, strange, or interesting phrases have you heard the natives and locals use in Travelers Rest and its neighbor towns? Feel free to share in the comments below. So I reckon the next time you are going a piece along our parts, and you meet some smart folks, don’t be skittish! You are hearing an old tongue used in colorful ways. But even this shows how language changes, as these phrases in these hills bear a striking resemblance to how they were once used by the highest ranking nobles of Scottish and English aristocracy hundreds of years ago! So again, it’s a quite archaic speech pattern that continues to be used in this Southern subregion.įrequently in modern media, the speech folkways of the southern Appalachians are used to represent isolated areas in perhaps an unfavorable light. Some linguists say that ill has been used this way since the 1300s in northern England. Someone may be underlining something with a phrase that can pass unnoticed in an age of precise, standard definitions.Īs another example, in Richard’s career, he frequently heard of people being “ill,” which had nothing to do with their physical health, but was more of a gentle way to say that they were known to have a bad temper. You see, the euphemisms and accents here don’t just convey information, but they’re useful to express an idea that may not be apparent on first hearing, or maybe it might take years to grasp. In this case, it is a modern phrase with archaic pronunciation, where the word wire has the Scots-Irish dropping of the “r” sound.Īnother useful but archaic word in use here in northern Greenville is nary, as in the phrase, “Nary a one of the older folk remains from those days,” where nary is a quite old British word to emphasis “none.” “He ain’t wire right” is often used to laughingly talk about someone else being eccentric, says Richard. In his career, Richard often heard people describe strange and uncertain situations as like “looking through the bottom of a whisky bottle,” where the world is very blurred - not only referring to the distorted vision through blurred glass, but in reference to the whisky distilling that many are familiar with in these hills. The word yonder is one of these adverbs that has its roots in British villages of 500 years ago. “I’ve heard the phrase ‘Go over yonder and get something,’ with very little description of the thing or where yonder was,” Richard says. Being a local but not a native, he is still sometimes surprised at the phrases people use in this area. Richard Powell - a retired landscape design business owner who lives in the valley below Caesar’s Head - first moved to this area over 30 years ago. The same is true right here in the northern Greenville area, in towns like Travelers Rest, Cleveland, and Blue Ridge. These idioms and expressions can tell us a lot about how a people live and what they value, or even make us join in on a joke. ![]() Have you ever visited a new location and heard a local use an expression that seems weird or foreign, yet familiar at the same time? Even in an age of mass media, where we increasingly operate off the same “song sheet,” so to speak, local expressions can catch us off guard. The often colorful Scots-Irish descendants who live in northern Greenville County today - located at the end of the Appalachian Mountains - have surprisingly held onto and still use many of the words and phrases that originated in their ancestors’ motherland - words and phrases that haven’t been used widely since the time of Shakespeare!
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