OT: AAAAAARRRRrrrrrrrrrr!!

[Maija]

In mos' parts o' tha world 'tis a very special day roight now, an' it soon will be here too.

Aye 'specks dis here tread t' be full o' loads o' salty chatter an' swoshbucklin' ack-tivitee bye tha toime Aye checks it tomorree.

Now pardon me, whilst Aye takes tha noight watch...

[gdeo]

Shiver me timbers....is it that time again...AAAAARRRrrrrr back to ye lass!!;)

[Myron L]

AVAST Ye scurvy barnacle scrubbers !!!Unbuckle me breeches and pound me li' a galleywench, 'tis indeed toime again.
Raise yer pint o' grog and toast our fortunes...
The High Seas await us !!!
"...There was a young lass from Nantucket..."
...and indeed I knew her well...
Har! Har! Har!

[Todd H]

Arrrrr!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/RavenTwyst/m_0ca6301b828291c73ff716960a102a13.jpg

[parrish]

Me avatar'll do the talkin' fer today.

[Maija]

Yaarrrrr, Parrish, yer avatar warms tha cockles o' me heart.

PsychoFyre, wot fer ye be unbucklin' yer breeches Aye don' want ta know, but Aye prefers ye keep 'em on when Aye's on deck. :p

Arrrr, all me hearties, ye do me proud, ye does.

[parrish]

With all dis speak about cockles an' unbucklin' breeches dis thread might sink t'Davy Jones' locker.

We best t'be holdin' our tongues.

[Ivar_L]

Oi won't try to make fun in English and short circuit my brains. Instead - there was a comics festival in Helsinki, Finland last weekend. It's only 80 kilometers from here, so I was there. I got my French "Isaac le pirate" 3-books-in-one black and white album signed by Christophe Blain:

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3412/blainisaaclepirate600gt6.jpgˇ

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3795/blain600va3.jpg

First album of the series won Best Album Award 2002 in Angouleme, there are 5 albums by now.
http://www.readaboutcomics.com/2003/11/12/isaac-the-pirate-vol-1-to-exotic-lands/

[Asa]

AHoy ,Avast, Arrr,
"That time again let get drinken were T' Rum"

[Neil Hill]

The real question be (end of Pirate talk), is there any actual proof that Pirates authentically talked this way during their hey day? :o I'm thinking it's mostly movies and fictional written accounts that have made this particular dialect so famous. Regardless, I suppose it doesn't really matter as long as it's fun to do.

[David Glassey]

I'm going to have to pick up some his work, it's great stuff.

or should "I say I be goin' t' be havin' t' pick up some his work, 'tis great stuff."

[absenter]

The real question be (end of Pirate talk), is there any actual proof that Pirates authentically talked this way during their hey day? :o I'm thinking it's mostly movies and fictional written accounts that have made this particular dialect so famous. Regardless, I suppose it doesn't really matter as long as it's fun to do.

You blasted bung-hole! Cut his grog, set him to swab the deck then a lick from my cat-o-nine. Yar, and then a promenade down the plank methinks. Davy Jones is lonely! YAR!:D

[Jankenstein]

Avast, ye bleedin' landlubber! Keep yer breeches on and don't be hoistin' the ol' mizzenmast in the presence of the lasses! Batten that hatch afore Dread Pirate Maija keelhauls yer sorry hide! :eek:


One of Gary Gianni's backup stories in the Hellboy comics series (methinks it was Almost Colossus) has a cephaolopod-headed band of Pirates. The story was published long before Davey Jones came to the silver screen. And I can't find a scan of the image anywhere. Bah!:mad:

[absenter]

Avast, ye bleedin' landlubber! Keep yer breeches on and don't be hoistin' the ol' mizzenmast in the presence of the lasses! Batten that hatch afore Dread Pirate Maija keelhauls yer sorry hide! :eek:


Dread Pirate Maija?!! Lasses?!!

Getcher head outta yer scuppers you confounded bilge rat! Ain't sposed ter be no wenches on the boat!

They's unluckly.

That is unless they's...willin...and at least somewhat able! :evilsmile YAR!

[Sparky]

G'day all ye drivelswiggers, old tars, sprogs, swabs and mooncussers! A more vile crew of miscreants I never did see, not even when I had both eyes...but that was long ago, before we lost the grand brig Hunkadunkus to a Kraken off Cape Palmas on the Ivory Coast. Aye...losing one of yer deadlights to a Kraken, that'll take the wind out of yer sheets! And well scuppers yer depth perception, too. But I ain't swallowin' the anchor yet!

Just let me haul my boots on and fetch me wayward parrot and I'll join ye abaft on the poop deck!

[Maija]

The real question be (end of Pirate talk), is there any actual proof that Pirates authentically talked this way during their hey day? :o I'm thinking it's mostly movies and fictional written accounts that have made this particular dialect so famous. Regardless, I suppose it doesn't really matter as long as it's fun to do.

Yarrr, why in da bleedin' name o' tonderin' William Kidd be ye tryin' ta bring questions o' 'istorical autenticity inter dis here most blessed o' days, bye?

But if ye really mus' know, 't ain't no secret dat real poirits came from many a linguistical backgroun' an' so fer bein' able to parley twixt they colourful selves dey spoke quoit a blend o' tongues an' in fact, tha good King's English itself is wot's known as a "Trade Language" wot has distant root ov it's own, but be mainly a blend o' many languages, soch as French, German, an' pickin' up terms like a tarred man rollin' about in a rubbish heap.

An' on top o' that, Aye myself is imitatin' summat betweens a Newfoundland outport dialect, Yorkshire, Cockney an' some bits Aye makes up as Aye goes along.

So yer answer be: YAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

An' if ye'd step up here t' th' rail, Aye'll put dis here loine roun' yer ankles an' wrists and we'll guv ya a good scrubbin' 'neath the keel cuz Aye tinks ye needs it fer comin' inter dis tread an' so flaggrantly ig-norin' th' rule o' the Day.

An' that goes fer all tha rest o' yas wot be speakin' wid nary a trace o' dialectical merriment, wiv th' exception o' Ivar fer he gots a fearsome name ta begins wid an' Isaac Le Pirate be good readin'.

[Maija]

Ah, if it ain't Black Powder Sparks, lookin' foine in that avatar if Aye do say. Ye've got tha helm whilst Aye's direcktin' the haulin' o' all dese dull-speakin' landlubbers over tha keel.

[Sparky]

The real question be (end of Pirate talk), is there any actual proof that Pirates authentically talked this way during their hey day?

The book Under The Black Flag by David Cordingly discusses the modern image of pirates (which we get mostly from Stevenson's Treasure Island) and how it compares to real thing. If you read letters, reports and trial documents about pirates from the 16th-18th century, you'll see lots of familiar pirate slang. And of course, many words and phrases we still use today come directly from old nautical slang (not necessarily pirate talk, but sailor talk). So, I'd say, aye! they did, to a certain extent, talk like that.

Arrrr!

[Todd H]

Yo ho harrrrr!!

Tis' Neil the unscrupulous lubber an 'is band 'o blasphemous mates!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/RavenTwyst/3241.gif

[Sparky]

Yarrr, why in da bleedin' name o' tonderin' William Kidd be ye tryin' ta bring questions o' 'istorical autenticity inter dis here most blessed o' days, bye?

http://www.phobe.com/pyle.jpg

Maija and Neil be fightin' to the death! Cor, I wonder which o' those captain-hackum's'll get milled?

Well, this shaberoon's remainin' strickly ambidexter...I'll jest be tellin' the cook to fix our cantin' crew one less bowl of slumgullion!

That there of course is by Howard Pyle, th' finest piratickal illustrator that ever was!

[fitzroy]

Aaaaar me hearties. Happy Pirate Day to ye all.

[hellboyone]

AHAHAHAHARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

http://www.rickcortes.com/pirateboy.jpg

Yarr..

[Myron L]

Nice ...Rick o' the BluePencil....
Ye have ye some skill...

[hellboyone]

'Tis kind of ye'. Although, in me haste, seems I made 'ellboy a might invisible through th' wheel of th' ship. YARRRR!!!!!

[Sparky]

Aye, it's a right miracle Cap'n Rick can even make way through the seas, what with his hull being encrusted with thousands o' barnacles made of PURE AWESOMENESS.

[Myron L]

Ah, me Sparky...Ye does indeed have Ya the merest glimmerin' o'....NAY...the brightest shine of AMAZIN'NESS Yersel'...

Yo Ho Ho...raise Yer Grog and me timber(s)....
(LOL...couldn't resist !)

[Petersen]

That there of course is by Howard Pyle, th' finest piratickal illustrator that ever was!

Beaaaaaaarrrr-thuur

s'long as yer jawr flappn 'bout Pyle an 'is barn'cle brush strokes, 'ere be 'is star pew-pil (an my ship's prefurrrrrred Poirate paint'er) N.C. Wyeth's scurvy sailors renderrrrred in oi-ils fer yer enjoiy-met

http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/images/Wyeth19.jpg

http://www.pirates-life.com/images/Wyeth,NC_full.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/thumb/f/f1/TI-stockade.jpg/481px-TI-stockade.jpg

http://www.pushby.com/friends/jesse/archives/images/wyethtreasureisland.jpg

[Maija]

Yarrrrr-harharhar, Cap'n Rick ye've scritched a foine bit o' scrimshaw there ye has.

Aye also see's yer plans ta pillage some odder lubber's bandwidth been scuttled by a animated gif wot gives me a fearsome twitch and memries o' me botched raid on dat junk in da South China Seas wot turned out ta be fulla firey-works an me firs' mate figgered it were a good time fer a puff on 'is pipe. 'T were mighty colourful an' excitin' but Aye lost me favrit hat an' me favrit firs' mate.

All dem odder piratin' pictchers be pretty foine also. Aye'm particalar fond o' Wyeth meself.

[King_Vold]

Yarrrrr, it'd be mighty remiss of meself t'be missin' Talk Like A Pirate Day! Good toidings o' this blessed day to all of ye scurvy-ridden bilge-rats at this foine forum!

By the powers, seems I've not been here for nigh on two and a half years! Mark my words, that'll be remedied henceforth! Yaaaarrrrrrr!!!!!!

[absenter]

s'long as yer jawr flappn 'bout Pyle an 'is barn'cle brush strokes, 'ere be 'is star pew-pil (an my ship's prefurrrrrred Poirate paint'er) N.C. Wyeth's scurvy sailors renderrrrred in oi-ils fer yer enjoiy-met



Oye knows ITLAPD has set sail and it may be time ter put all me briny vocab back in yon captains chest, BUT! oye had ter come back far one last piratical commentarlism aye, far them pictures do so pull at the anchor lines of me hart.

sniff

Oye just shed me farst tear.

sniff

If only I hadn't run me own mother through with a sardfish, she woulda been alive to see this glorious day of perksonal developyment. YAR WAHR HAR HAR! YAR HWHAR HAR!

[Maija]

The book Under The Black Flag by David Cordingly discusses the modern image of pirates (which we get mostly from Stevenson's Treasure Island) and how it compares to real thing. If you read letters, reports and trial documents about pirates from the 16th-18th century, you'll see lots of familiar pirate slang. And of course, many words and phrases we still use today come directly from old nautical slang (not necessarily pirate talk, but sailor talk). So, I'd say, aye! they did, to a certain extent, talk like that.

Arrrr!

I should add that anyone who has ever heard someone from the remoter parts of Newfoundland or Cape Breton would have no doubt that pirates really talked like that.

Sparky, have you been to the 826 Valencia Pirate Store? Someday I wish to visit this marvelous store.

[Mike Cross]

I work with about 20 people that talk like that on a regular basis, newfies and capers all.

[jnapper]

Captain Kidd Ship Found
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071213/sc_livescience/captainkiddshipfound