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Hivetyrant 09-19-2006 02:26 AM

That be right, International talk like a pirate day it be!

YAR!

Legolas 09-19-2006 02:54 AM

Arr, that it be, me salt-crusted barnacle.
Avast, ye stinkin bilge rats. Git yer lubber legs on deck and smartly. It be pirate talk for the shameful lot o ye, or me buckos have ye clean the bung hole with yer teeth.
Yarr.

Dragonshadow 09-19-2006 04:13 AM

Well blow me down mateys! So it be! yarr, for sure, i shall be walkin around me ship today and talkin like this. Now - bring me me parrot!

Legolas 09-19-2006 06:36 AM

That so, me beauty? The high seas ain't no place fer wimmin. Them winds is whippin' so's ta make the cat's touch seem a sweet caress, and nights is black as hell. Aye, 'cept fer them fires o' sinkin' ships in me wake, sez I
It be grog an' murder, lootin' and gunfights yer ilk lacks the stomach fer. Best ye stay in yer lubber's den an' pour me lads another, arr.
Smartly me lass, by the Powers!

Variol (Farseer) Elmwood 09-19-2006 07:24 AM

Tiver me Shimbers.. ;)

JrKASperov 09-19-2006 09:40 AM

Well drats and bebothered, my ol' corsair arse has done be forgotten it! I even woke up the ol' wench with me landlubber talkin'!

SpiritWarrior 09-19-2006 01:07 PM

Yay! I mean, Yarr. More beer is the answer, but what was the question?

Dragonshadow 09-19-2006 04:08 PM

Yaarrr! Not beer me hearty, but rum! Stuff o' legends of teh seven seas, taht it be.

Dragonshadow 09-19-2006 04:13 PM

Me scurvy shipmate, Theresa, she be thinkin' that more o' tha good stuff, tha rum, be needed all around! Yarr, and she done threatened to hang me to teh mast by me bootlaces unless I said so. Tha scurvy cur.

Arvon 09-19-2006 04:16 PM

Vocabulary
In which ye'll find words submitted by many pirates o'er the years, an' which comprise a loose piratical dictionary.

Ahoy: Hey!
Avast: Stop!
Aye: Yes
Black spot: to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for death.
Booty: treasure
Buccanneer: a pirate who be answerin' to no man or blasted government.
By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!
Cat o' nine tails: whip for floggin' mutineers
Corsair: a pirate who be makin' his berth in the Med-...Medi-...that sea 'tween Spain and Africa, aye!
Davy Jones' Locker: the bottom o' the sea, where the souls of dead men lie
Doubloons: pieces of gold...
Fiddlers Green: the private heaven where pirates be goin' when they die.
Furner: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an' plunder.
Gentlemen o' fortune: a slightly more positive term fer pirates!
Go on the account: to embark on a piratical cruise
Grog: A pirate's favorite drink.
Jack: a flag or a sailor
Jolly Roger: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!
Keelhaul: a truly vicious punishment where a scurvy dog be tied to a rope and dragged along the barnacle-encrusted bottom of a ship. They not be survivin' this.
Landlubber: "Land-lover," someone not used to life onboard a ship.
Lass: A woman.
Lily-livered: faint o' heart
Loaded to the Gunwales (pron. gunnels): drunk
Matey: A shipmate or a friend.
Me hearty: a friend or shipmate.
Me: My.
Pieces o' eight: pieces o' silver which can be cut into eights to be givin' small change.
Privateer: a pirate officially sanctioned by a national power
Scallywag: A bad person. A scoundrel.
Scurvy dog!: a fine insult!
Shiver me timbers!: an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.
Son of a Biscuit Eater: a derogatory term indicating a bastard son of a sailor
Sprogs: raw, untrained recruits
Squadron: a group of ten or less warships
Squiffy: a buffoon
Swaggy: a scurvy cur's ship what ye be intendin' to loot!
Swashbucklin': fightin' and carousin' on the high seas!
Sweet trade: the career of piracy
Thar: The opposite of "here."
Walk the plank: this one be bloody obvious.
Wench: a lady, although ye gents not be wantin' to use this around a lady who be stronger than ye.
Wi' a wannion: wi' a curse, or wi' a vengeance. Boldly, loudly!
Yo-ho-ho: Pirate laughter


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