International talk like a pirate day

  • Thread starter Thread starter Huckleberry
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    International
Click For Summary

Discussion Overview

The thread celebrates International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD), inviting participants to engage in playful pirate-themed banter and expressions. The discussion encompasses various interpretations of pirate speech, humor, and camaraderie among participants, with a focus on the festive nature of the day.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Debate/contested
  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants enthusiastically embrace the pirate theme, sharing their interpretations and expressions of pirate talk.
  • Others challenge the quality of each other's pirate speech, suggesting improvements and offering humorous critiques.
  • A few participants introduce humor and jokes related to pirate culture, contributing to the lighthearted atmosphere.
  • There are discussions about the nature of pirate language, including the use of specific pronouns and expressions that are considered authentic to pirate speech.
  • Some participants express a desire for more frequent opportunities to speak like pirates beyond just one day a year.
  • There are references to fictional pirate characters and lore, including Captain Pillowhead, adding to the playful narrative.
  • Participants share their experiences and thoughts on the significance of the day, with some suggesting it could be recognized as a religious holiday.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the festive spirit of ITLAPD, but there are competing views on the authenticity and quality of pirate speech. The discussion remains playful and unresolved regarding the best practices for speaking like a pirate.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express uncertainty about the definitions and conventions of pirate language, leading to varied interpretations of what constitutes authentic pirate talk.

Who May Find This Useful

Readers interested in playful language, cultural celebrations, or those looking to engage in humorous banter may find this discussion enjoyable.

Huckleberry
Messages
497
Reaction score
7
http://anthropik.com/wp-uploads/PIRATE.jpg​
That's right! It be that time of year again. So strap up yer boots, don yer favorite cover and hoist the jolly roger, because it be time to set sail. Whether yer pleasure be grog and wenches or cannons broadside or wealth beyond measure, this be yer day. The ships be ready to raise anchor so be on your best, worst behavior and speak like the pirate you are. Let no man, woman or child within gulls sight of the seven seas forget that today be yer day of infamy!

YARRRR!​
 
Physics news on Phys.org
I'm new at this, so here goes nothing. Shiver my timbers. How'd I do?
 
Harrr! Is that all ye got? Why, you ain't got enough wind in yer sails to get a dingy across a mud puddle. Tilt yer head back and bottoms up, boy. Take a shot of the rot, and put that fire back in yer gut. You'll need to do better then that if you plan on avoidin' Davey Jones' locker, you will.

Seein' as how I have a soft spot for greenhorns such as yerself I'll let you be a deckhand on me ship. I be searchin' the ports for news a that scruvy seadog Captain Pillowhead. So keep yer head on a swivel and a snap in yer step, cause she's a crafty, old hag and I'd rather be catchin her broadsides unawares.
 
I see your point. This is completely out of character, but here goes: shiver my timbers. Better?
 
Wait, I think I got it. SHIVER MY TIMBERS, YOU UNSAVOURY RAPSCALLION, please.
 
Last edited:
Harr harrr! Well, that be a course I'm not won't to sailin', but I thinks ye' be gettin' the spirit of the piratin' season. Alas, 'tis a shame that pirate talk day only comes but once a year. The world be overly abundant in gibberish and fancy talk and needin' a lot more colorfully placed apostrophes.

And fer yer information, no self-respectin' pirate be sayin' 'my.' We only use the objective pronouns 'me' and we,' never the possessive forms 'my' and 'our.' That be 'cause any pirate worth his salt knows that person's possessions are objective. Yarr harrr!

And before I go let me ply yer ear with a stroke of pirate humor.
What be the same betwixt pirate and pimp?
We both says YO HO!
Yarrrr harrr!
 
Huckleberry said:
We both says YO HO!
Harrrrrdy harrrgh harrrrgh! You might get two miles to the galleon with that one, no more.
 
Yarrr! Are ye sayin that ye don't talk like a pirate year roun?
 
Blistering Barnacles! Come back here you misanthropes!
 
  • #10
Can I take today off as a religious holiday then - me hearties?
-may you be blessed by his noodly appendage.
 
  • #11
Washi wa kaizoku da zo!

That's Japanese for "I'm a pirate y'know". Just thought I'd put the international in ITLPD.
 
  • #12
It gladdens me heart to see me maties joinin' in the celebration. A round of grog on me! No, not ON me you blubbery baboons! Yaarrrr! Ya know what I means. One more down the gullet.


mattmns said:
Yarrr! Are ye sayin that ye don't talk like a pirate year roun?
Thar be no ill-gotten booty greater than the pleasure it would give me to speak as a pirate year roun'. However, as pleasant an endeavor as that may be, I doubt the wench that employs me would appreciate me callin' her such. What be the world comin' to when salty dog pirates such as meself labor at an honest livin' when we should be lobbin' iron over wooden hulls, or through it as the case may be. Yarr! How I long to fly the colours of me heart and raise me jolly roger to the world in more than a figurative manner.
 
Last edited:
  • #13
YARR! Yes! It be talk lyke a pyrate day! I been celebrating this here day longe' then I have' this here peg leg! Yar Huckleberry, thar be no ill'gotton booty greater than the preasure it would give almost anyone who has sailed the seven great seas to flap thar jaws like yars truly, a pirate.
 
  • #14
Don't be blowin' up me skirt so fast there matey. There be pirates about these waters that can flap far more proficiently than I. If only they could hold their liqueur as proficiently they would be here waggin' their salty tongues at me 'til I was little more than the dirty rag on some brat's bottom. They got barnacles for teeth and tentacles for tongues, gullets like stove pipes and guts like a witches cauldron, but no mortal were meant to play 'one hundred bottles of rum on the wall' till it's very end. I fear they be risin' from their slumber soon with a terrible fury that would send the leviathan hisself back to the bottom of the depths to hide under Davey's axillary region.
 
  • #15
We'll I'll be a bilge rat if it ain't ITLAPD!


YAAARRRR!
 
  • #16
Then you be no bilge rat 'cause it be ITLAPD as certain as Neptune's mossy beard.

Say, have you perchance caught wind of the infamous piratess Captain Pillowhead? And where be the sisters? There be too many cutlasses a swingin' in this den of mangy jackals. There be no party without the pretties.
 
  • #17
Huckleberry said:
Say, have you perchance caught wind of the infamous piratess Captain Pillowhead?
'Tis been awhile since Captain Pillowhead has been sighted. First Mate Math Is Hard has been sighted, and Cap'n Moonbear should be sailin' into the Cove soon.
 
  • #19
YAAAAAAHHHHHRRRHHHHHHHHHH!

Avast, me hearties! Where's me grog and me polly?
 
  • #20
YAAARRRRHHHH! There be MIH, or be it Cap'n MIH now?

Anyone spotted the S.S. Moonbear?
 
  • #21
Evo said:
the S.S. Moonbear
S.S. means steamship, ye landlubber. But I won't be hard on ye, for I know ye to be a good lass who always sends what she steals to her mother.
 
  • #22
Evo said:
YAAARRRRHHHH! There be MIH, or be it Cap'n MIH now?

There still be five more classes 'n' two pirate labs t' go before I can become cap'n.. :frown:
 
  • #23
jimmysnyder said:
..for I know ye to be a good lass who always sends what she steals to her mother.

:smile::smile::smile: A mark of fine character, that!
 
  • #24
ARRR! I be the fiece pirate Correct Jeans! My expertise is greater than Davy Jones' at takin' the lives of the weak sailors of the seven seas! I give a challenge to all ye! Yer cannons are no match for mine! yar har har!
 
  • #25
Alas, me flagon be empty and me belly full of grog. Looks like I won't be sending me burly cutthroats to grapple aboard Pillowhead's vessel this year. I hear the siren song callin' me dizzy head to a pillow all me own. There I'll rest in glorious battle with Captain Pillowhead until the morn secure with the knowledge that pirates be talkin' this fine day.

Fair winds and following seas. And if nature sees fit to harry yer journey with either tumult or torpidity, keep an even keel and follow the swallows home.
 
  • #26
I started a similar thread in two other forums, I was not sure if you guys could handle this.

Fun crowd, a day late YHARRRRRRRRRRR...YE BE WARNED
 
  • #27
Yarrr, ye go fine me wenches and rum, yarrrrrr!
 
  • #28
Iff'en meself be a'weern the Jolly Rodger on me vessal, you best not to be speakin of da lassies here as Wenches. Or we be a ti'en ye up, and leves you someplace we be likely ta remember, in case we be need'in ye agern. Now plese be pass'in that tankard o' devils Spit.
 
  • #29
heh heh heh

http://dailytroll.com/images/BizarroPirate.gif
 
Last edited by a moderator:
  • #30
jimmysnyder said:
S.S. means steamship, ye landlubber. But I won't be hard on ye, for I know ye to be a good lass who always sends what she steals to her mother.
Yaaarrrhh! Steamship? What good be that, ye fishmouthed scum?! Ne'er's there been a worthier vessel than the Sailing Ship Moonbear.