Aye. 'tis International Talk Like A Pirate Day shipmates - at least ‘ere on th’ Spanish Main! Ye new world types'll be a catchin' up soon.

Which o' ye hearty tars'll join ol' Ironscarf t' give these ‘ere forums a jolly rodgerin’?! We'll be sippin' some grog, slittin' some gizzards an' tellin' some tall tales o' the sea - like th' time I be sailin' wi' rum swillin' Skoolmunk'e, the pirate beauty what broke me ‘eart an’ bent me cutlass!

Aarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Be ye not talkin' pirate talk, ye'll be blow dryin' Neptune's beard at the bottom o' the briny afore breakfast ye scurvy dogs! Now, where be me hornpipe?

Harangin ‘n’ w' a swayin speak, ar ye? Well eno, I be one to keep a captain asail. But tis it be talk yer a havin or some shimmerin pieces of eight? Aye, a gust o wind breathes the very life when chasin a laden ship o booty. Laden and, in a blink o eye, laden no more. And then I be wearin a finery to shame th’ glitter o th’ sea, w’ nar a scurvy dog w' naught to do th'n wag a sorry tail.

I be likin' th' cut o' yer jib shipmate! Aye, ‘tis booty I be seekin’ an' tis booty we'll be a pluderin' afore this day be sayin ‘er prayers lest we be splicin’ ‘er t’ th' mainbrace!

Be a watchful fer th' kings mods me fine hearty tar - I hear tell ol' Product Placem'nt is fond o' the cat o' nine but e'll not be layin' is ‘ands on me booty - me body’s to bootylicious for ‘e I be tellin’ 'im!

Blah. I'b too stubbed ub too talk libe a birate.

Cap'n Ironscarf
- I hear tell ol' Product Placem'nt is fond o' the cat o' nine but e'll not be layin' is ‘ands on me booty - me body’s to bootylicious for ‘e I be tellin’ 'im!

The viking be lulled by grog-laced dreams ‘n’ havin me a scrap o' map, me founds where the dog buried his booty.


@swabbygravekeeper
yer peg fits o th'leg, nar ye trap.

Arr >:{>

Aye matey, tis a tragedy that bein' on a Sunday be takin' all the fun out o'it. Can we not make it akin to ye American Fed'rl holler-day arrr- an make it the followin' Monday? Arrrr, tho' a pirate arrr we still be respectin' God's day arrr. Myself ne'er killed a clergyman arrr.

(Though you can't see it there is a skull and crossbones flying from the antenna of the tank)

Arrr. Ya blistering landlubbers need not to fear Pirate Placement mucking up ye day.
He be on a voyage with his good chum, ol Cap'n Freeman.

bravo1102
Aye matey, tis a tragedy that bein' on a Sunday be takin' all the fun out o'it. Can we not make it akin to ye American Fed'rl holler-day arrr- an make it the followin' Monday? Arrrr, tho' a pirate arrr we still be respectin' God's day arrr. Myself ne'er killed a clergyman arrr.

(Though you can't see it there is a skull and crossbones flying from the antenna of the tank)

'Tis shame enow to' make' me parrot sick as a parrot shipmate! I be sharin' that fine sent'ment ‘n’all, but mayhap some lilly liv'r'd landlubbers'd just as soon it be o'er, an' get back t' sippin' ‘em Earl Grey tea wi’ they li'l pinkeys cocked skyward, hahaaaaaaarrrr!

Shiver me timbers. Whisky and Rum. Parrot. Pirates. Deck.

I can't believe I missed it this year!

*Sad, forlorn, late: yarrrrr* :(

I avoided this like the plague. When people started answering with “Yarrrr, scallywag” I just walked away mid conversation.

same
I avoided this like the plague. When people started answering with “Yarrrr, scallywag” I just walked away mid conversation.

Yet you still felt the need to come here and stick your oar in.

Oar, geddit?! Stick your oar in???

Oh nevermind.

same
I avoided this like the plague. When people started answering with “Yarrrr, scallywag” I just walked away mid conversation.

Puritan ay? Anyone anywhere havin' a bit o' fun just really aggrieves ye no end ay? We'll just have to keel haul ye until ye cheer up.

Extra rum ration for the man who gets'im to smile! A piece of eight to he who gets 'im to laugh.

Ironscarf

same
I avoided this like the plague. When people started answering with “Yarrrr, scallywag” I just walked away mid conversation.

Yet you still felt the need to come here and stick your oar in.

Oar, geddit?! Stick your oar in???

Oh nevermind.

Didn't say I want people to quit doing it. Just voicing my opinion.
And yes. Clever pun. Nautical themed.

bravo1102

same
I avoided this like the plague. When people started answering with “Yarrrr, scallywag” I just walked away mid conversation.

Puritan ay? Anyone anywhere havin' a bit o' fun just really aggrieves ye no end ay? We'll just have to keel haul ye until ye cheer up.

Extra rum ration for the man who gets'im to smile! A piece of eight to he who gets 'im to laugh.

same

Ooh!

Point of fact, Same knew about the Irish town Muff, which makes me think he may well be Irish.

And everybody knows that Pirate Speak, with the “tis”s, “dat”s and “'o”s, IS Irish. So, methinks it could be that Everyday is Speak-Like-A-Pirate-Day for same, I mean, some, and we rank amateurs don't do it right.

:) *This is almost as fun as speaking like a pirate.*

Ack! Aye, Tis true.

ayesinback
And everybody knows that Pirate Speak, with the “tis”s, “dat”s and “'o”s, IS Irish.

An interesting speculation, but pirate talk was actually invented by Robert Newton in 1950 and he based the accent on his native West Country (southwest England) dialect, where they actually do say aaaarrrrrr!

Ironscarf
An interesting speculation, but pirate talk was actually invented by Robert Newton in 1950 and he based the accent on his native West Country (southwest England) dialect, where they actually do say aaaarrrrrr!

Admittedly, “aaaarrrrrr” was conspicous by its absence from the list. I hadn't realized that it was a Word, sounded like a groan, the way people complain about their rheumatism or such. With all those peg legs, seemed like they matched up to all those aaaarrrrs.

But, yes, as Same demonstrated, aaaaarrr is pronounced Ack in Irish. There you go.

——— (wildebeest announcement)

But what I find REALLY intriguing is the concept of inventing a speech. Let's Do that. Let's invent a speech or dialect or sumppin :)

Ironscarf

ayesinback
And everybody knows that Pirate Speak, with the “tis”s, “dat”s and “'o”s, IS Irish.

An interesting speculation, but pirate talk was actually invented by Robert Newton in 1950 and he based the accent on his native West Country (southwest England) dialect, where they actually do say aaaarrrrrr!

But since many pirates DID come from the West Country, it might really have been one of the accents found out there on the high seas! :)

Eviltwinpixie
But since many pirates DID come from the West Country, it might really have been one of the accents found out there on the high seas! :)

I'm sure it was and he probably had that in mind at the time. It's just that before he made that film, nobody really thought about pirate talk as a concept. Take highwaymen for example; if I asked you to talk like a highwayman you'd probably wonder what I'd been drinking, but if Robert Newton had played Dick Turpin instead of Long John Silver, maybe we'd be having Talk Like A Highwayman day instead!

—(wildebeast with dodgy moustache)

There you go ayesinback - we could invent Highwaymans Talk?

Ironscarf
we could invent Highwaymans Talk?

hhhhhmmmm. Has definite potential, although I do see some overlap


*and possibly a new avi for Halloween*

– (baby wildebeest)

OK

So, let's see:

En now sohch finn folk cahn bay hoppier in live's circumstahns as I layten the load of sohch riches thay bore.



probablytoopython(ohnothespacebar'sdyin)

ayesinback

Ironscarf
we could invent Highwaymans Talk?

hhhhhmmmm. Has definite potential, although I do see some overlap

I loved that movie, Deanna Troi topless. Ahhhh…

— (naturalist voiceover: gay wildebeasts feeding on grass by a stream and the lioness is creeping up on them…)

As for Highwaymen no one beats:



Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore riding through the land, soon every lupin in the land will be in his mighty hand, et cetera…

no way!

Adam Ant

Stand and deliver!

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We could have "talk like Bushranger day… That's the Aussie equivalent of the highway man.
They wouldn't sound too Aussie though, since most were first or second generation British of Irish.

ozoneocean
no way!

Adam Ant

Stand and deliver!

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We could have "talk like Bushranger day… That's the Aussie equivalent of the highway man.
They wouldn't sound too Aussie though, since most were first or second generation British of Irish.

That may be a better one since Bushranger doesn't imply a gender as highwayman does. We certainly don't want exclude anyone from speaking daft made up dialects!

Also, we can constantly refer to all those great sounding Aussie things like Bilabongs and such. The temptation is just to refer to everyone as ‘cobber’ though.

Ironscarf
The temptation is just to refer to everyone as ‘cobber’ though

Aeeh, dat be roit me ‘ol cober! Ne-ow bail up and gimme all yur moinies or oil dump youse in yon billabong loik a jumped up jumbuck!

Mick Jagger gave Ned Kelly a go back in the late 60’s…

ozoneocean
Mick Jagger gave Ned Kelly a go back in the late 60's…

“Music and lyrics by Shel Silverstein” ? Now that's scary.

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Come on if you go with a bushranger some American twit will insist Americans all talk like Jesse James in protest.

“All right thar, jess put th' cash in that thar bag real slow like.”

Or worse “Talk (and walk) like John Wayne day” Okay pilgrim, I'm not gonna hit ya…

bravo1102
Or worse “Talk (and walk) like John Wayne day” Okay pilgrim, I'm not gonna hit ya…

Er… don't you guys do that every day?

Ironscarf

bravo1102
Or worse “Talk (and walk) like John Wayne day” Okay pilgrim, I'm not gonna hit ya…

Er… don't you guys do that every day?

Nah
Weez tauk joyzy. Issa boodeefuh ting

———————–herd of wildebeests, lurking . . . considering

How about something woodsy? Explorer talk? Forester talk? Chipmunk talk?

Ironscarf

Eviltwinpixie
But since many pirates DID come from the West Country, it might really have been one of the accents found out there on the high seas! :)

I'm sure it was and he probably had that in mind at the time. It's just that before he made that film, nobody really thought about pirate talk as a concept.

Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with you. I found your post on it really interesting. ^_^