Avast, matey!

It's a Beauty, Arrr!

Posted September 19, 2003 9:38 AM by Skwid

5. Only to talk like a pirate. Not to make walk the plank. Not to sack the Accounting Department. For that is the law.

Oh, *now* she tells us! Oops!

Posted September 19, 2003 10:43 AM by Rob 'Autographed Cat' Wynne

Those who have taken to this after seeing Pirates of the Caribbean may be amused by Nice Hair, of which I am becoming quite fond, in a sweet and simple way.

Posted September 19, 2003 11:18 AM by Emmet

http://chickenlil.blogspot.com

I have posted a photo on my blog of my sister-in-law, Michele, a 7th grade middle school teacher in
Albuquerque, NM, who is reprising her role as
The Pirate! this year, for the 2nd annual
TAlk LIke a Pirate Day! She looks great - and she
makes 'em walk the plank! ARRRRRRRRR!!!!

Posted September 19, 2003 11:35 AM by Linda Lupowitz

Peg leg good, two legs bad?

Posted September 19, 2003 11:57 AM by --kip

I find it especially ironic that your suggested pirate phonetic units are all claimed by that most vigorous of anti-pirate organizations,

The Arrr! Aye! Aaaa! Aaaa!

Posted September 19, 2003 1:09 PM by Jorrrdin Kaaare

Shiver yer timbers, Ashcroft, and preparrre to meet Davy Jones! Iii arrrre aaa liiibrrrrarrrian, aye!

Posted September 19, 2003 1:46 PM by Janet Croft

Aye, Jordin, I were thinkin' just that thing.

Posted September 19, 2003 2:14 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Meanwhile, the Salt Lake Tribune reports on the Presidential race.

Posted September 19, 2003 2:15 PM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I wonder how many Americans will be saying "bugger me standing" without knowing what it means. Actually, those inclined to talk like pirates probably will.

Posted September 19, 2003 2:29 PM by Scott Janssens

I just been aloft, matey, appendin' that same bit o' canvas to the mainsail. Arrrrrrrrrh!

Posted September 19, 2003 2:30 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Scott, lad, how bad can yon phrase be, seein' as I learnt it from me own godfather?

Posted September 19, 2003 2:33 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I'm waiting for Talk Like Dr. Stephen Maturin Day.

What a fine specimen of an anglerfish; you will pardon me if I absent myself from your fine company to swab its decks. Gills.

Posted September 19, 2003 2:37 PM by John M. Ford

Dare I ask under what circumstances your godfather instructed you to "bugger him standing"?

Posted September 19, 2003 2:41 PM by Lara Beaton

Ah, this demonstrates--ahem, be demonstratin' the shortcomin's and pitfalls of speakin' like a pirate. Teresa's gardfarther was indubitably makin' a passin' referrrrence to that noted Bulgarian, Miles Standish.

Any other interpretation is rather unseemly for what one must consider in these benighted times to be polite company.

Posted September 19, 2003 3:17 PM by kip m.

I can't wait for Talk like a Character from David Lynch's Dune.

I must admit, I like this blog.

Posted September 19, 2003 3:48 PM by Jeff Crook

There's an updated Corsair (pirate's keyboard) at this comment to my LiveJournal; it's got a scuttle button.

Posted September 19, 2003 3:59 PM by elise

Following the rules is so very un pirate-like.

Posted September 19, 2003 4:11 PM by Brett

Aye, sure and if somebody tol' me ta bugger 'im standin', I might take 'im right up on it...but I'd invite 'im ta me quarrters first. Arrrr.

Posted September 19, 2003 4:39 PM by XophArrrr!

Nay, it's nobbut a thing he do sometimes say when he's stark amazed.

Posted September 19, 2003 4:49 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

One of the expessions of surprise Nigel Rowe used when he lived over here was "Well bugger me rigid!", something that could all too easily be taken as an invitation in some quarters.

Posted September 19, 2003 5:00 PM by Rob Hansen

If ye be interrrrest'd in talkin' like a sailor, ye could do worse'n getting What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?: Unexpurgated Sea Chanties, me hearties. Learn how sailors use words yer mother'd keelhaul ye for usin'.

Posted September 19, 2003 5:19 PM by James D. Macdonald

Nay, matey, me dam brought the blush to many a sailor's cheek. The passel o' Brownies (now I'm talkin' o' the junior Girl Scout kind) in the car when she turned awrong, and gave a cry of "Shitballs!" were not sailors, but fer a' that were taken much aback.

Posted September 19, 2003 5:26 PM by XophArrr!

"Yo ho ho and a point of order!"

"Who's that?!"

"That, lad...that be Graybeard, the Parlimentary Pirate. Arrr! With his parrot, Redactor."

Posted September 19, 2003 5:27 PM by Tim Kyger

"There is not a moment to be lost!"

Whoops. Wrong novel...

Posted September 19, 2003 5:28 PM by Tim Kyger

"Standing" as in "bugger me standing" means "without disrobing."

Arrrr.

Posted September 19, 2003 5:40 PM by James D. Macdonald

I thought it referred to one's ranking in the Freebooters' and Honest Seamen's Intership Round-Robin Shuffleboard League. To wit:

"One-eye's taken a hat trick!"

"Arrh! Bugger me standin'!"

Cf. "bugger me aggregate," "bugger me handicap."

Posted September 19, 2003 6:43 PM by kip m.

Arrrr, there be no link to a corsair's keyboard elise m'lass! Tis a cruel trick yer playing.

Posted September 19, 2003 7:16 PM by Stefan Jones

Happen I already owns a copy o' th' book, which it's What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?; aye, and it all inscribed behind and before wi' piratical sentiments in a fine broad hand.

Yon strappin' wench Lydia paid down her money for one a', an' was fair gobsmacked to find Morgan sailed under a flag o' convenience.

Posted September 19, 2003 7:17 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Arrrrrrrr!

Dvark!

listen here, at bottom of page

And he's playing a short set tonight at the CBGB!

Posted September 19, 2003 8:25 PM by arrrric

"2. The basic phonetic unit of pirate speech is the single long-drawn-out letter: R, I, A, etc."

Ironic, given that those bilge rats over at the RIAA be so anti-piracy.

Posted September 19, 2003 8:56 PM by Luke

Boy, I stay away for most of a day....

So what did the dyslexic Russian pirate say?

Ya, Ya, Ya....

Pardon me whilst I go and convince the pirate raccoon that taking over the garage is Not Done in Polite Daly City.

(And "Blow me down" is probably not good East Coast Pirate this week...).

Cheers,
Tom

Posted September 19, 2003 11:28 PM by Tom Whitmore

Stefan, arrrrr! I'm sorry! I cannot seem to type these things in right today. The link to the picture of the keyboard is at http://www.livejournal.com/users/elisem/221415.html?thread=1123303 if I finally typed it right.
The whole thread can be found at http://www.livejournal.com/users/elisem/221415.html if, again, I did it right this time. (I know I got instructions on how to make a link, but I have looked for them for an hour now, and am giving up in frustration. Eh, I suppose I forfeit my geek hat now. Meh.)

(And you're all welcome to stop by my LJ and paint graffiti on the Alphabet's Revenge, or get some eyeshadow, or whatever. "Arrr," she explained.)

Posted September 20, 2003 12:35 AM by elise

Thank ye lass, and a fine keyboard it be.

Posted September 20, 2003 2:36 AM by Stefan Jones

What one of my English friends thought about it....

Posted September 20, 2003 4:35 AM by Yonmei

John: When we celebrate Talk Like Dr. Maturin Day, will we be doing it in Catalan or Arrrrrrrrish?

Posted September 20, 2003 1:28 PM by Anne

I'm not sure about Talk Like Dr. Maturin Day. It will only prompt Patrick to ask what-all I have in my pockets.

Posted September 20, 2003 7:19 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Rings of Power, duh!

Posted September 20, 2003 7:54 PM by Anne

Nothing so practical.

Posted September 20, 2003 9:07 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

String ... or nothing!

Posted September 21, 2003 3:29 PM by Alan Bostick

When one has spent the past month with one's leg broken, and laden with hard-set plaster, Dr, Maturin's assurances as to the efficacy of this novel treatment begin to wear somewhat thin. The expectation that one should then "talk like a pirate" becomes the lubberly imposition of a scurvy knave, reminiscent of the most venal practices of the Victualling Office.

Instead of talking like a pirate, may I recommend a few alternative phrases which may be of use.

There is not a moment to be lost!

Sir, you have debauched my sloth!

Pray, sir, recall that is my rosin which you have put in your waistcoat pocket.

Left hand down a bit!

I trust that this will be of assistance to you in your further endeavours and enterprises.

Posted September 24, 2003 2:56 PM by J. Aubrey (RN, Retd.)

Sir, you must always have one hand for the keyboard, and the other for yourself.

Posted September 24, 2003 5:21 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden