"September 19th (every year) is International Talk Like A Pirate Day"
I must be seriously out of touch. Talk Like A Pirate Day (or TLAPD), has been growing for at least six years. And this is the first I've heard about it.
Arrrr! That be most distressing!
Happily, The Official Site of International Talk Like a Pirate Day is helping me make up for lost time. They've even got a page that gives a quick explanation of why you should talk like a pirate, and how. With mmp3-format examples in German, Swedish, Mandarin Chinese.
Yes, it's an international phenomenon.
The Official Site of International Talk Like A Pirate Day website has a online software, too: like an English-to-Pirate Translator. It be no substitute for proper study o' t' pirate dialect, but tis sufficient to get a lubber started.
And, a personality test: "Find yer inner pirate."
I was going to look for some more 'talk like a pirate' links, but The Official Site of International Talk Like A Pirate Day website beat me to it: with a page called, logically enough, "Pirate Links."
I feel like a bilge rat that's poked it's whiskers above deck to behold a vast and brighter world.
I best be shovin' off now.
But before doin' so, a word about that personality test. I ventured a run through it, taking to particular care about accuracy or verisimilitude, and came up with this:
You are The Cap'n!
Some men and women are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any scalawag who stands between them and unlimited power. You never met a man - or woman - you couldn't eviscerate. You are the definitive Man of Action, the CEO of the Seven Seas, Lee Iacocca in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. You're mission-oriented, and if anyone gets in the way, that's his problem, now isn't? Your buckle was swashed long ago and you have never been so sure of anything as your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off his head if he shows any sign of taking you on or backing down. If one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones' locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed - a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and imagining them where they are not.
What's Yer Inner Pirate?
brought to you by The Official Talk Like A Pirate Web Site. Arrrrr!
2 comments:
hahaha!
Come to think of it, a lot of the pirate captains depicted in cartoons are rather, ah, portly. And hey! You have *two* bad legs!
Brigid,
Arrrr! That be true, lassie!
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