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Re: My pirate lexicon.
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Mon, 24 Apr 2000 02:56:43 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Markus Wolf writes:
> > Today's contribution to the Pirate Lego community... my official pirate
> > lexicon. I'm taking a crew to the Bahamas in June and we'll be
> > performing/ministering/building at an orphanage with my little skit • production
> > known as "Swashbuckler's Island." To help my drama team get into character, • I
> > compiled the below. Any feedback, corrections, are appreciated.
> >
> > Markus
> >
> > How to Talk Like a Pirate
> >
> > It's easy to be a swashbuckling buccaneer. You only need to understand
> > the rules of speech. The vast majority of this material was taken from
> > fictional literary sources, videos, internet junk, and etc., implying that
> > this is more "Hollywood lingo" or pirate mythos, and not necessarily all that
> > historically accurate. I must give credit to Sid Fleischmann, an awesome
> > author who wrote alot of cool pirate books that I got lots of colorful
> > material from.
> >
> > A Few "Grammar" Rules for Pirate Lingo
> > Start with a Cockney accent, the fun English accent
> > Say "ye" instead of "you"
> > Say "me" instead of "my" e.g. "Taste me steel, ye old shark"
> > Drop the "h" frequently in strong "h"-words like him and his e.g. "This
> > is 'im, Captain, the thief"
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> Arrrr, ye be violatin' the rules awready, ye lubber. This be 'im, Cap'n. Ye
> be conjugatin' the bloody verb.
>
> > Don't say "no" but say "nay",
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> Aye! Uh, nay, arrr, this be a trick question.
>
> > Don't say "yes" but say "aye" (pronounced like "eye")
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> Aye-aye, Cap'n.
>
> > Don't use the word "it" but drop the "i" and attach the "T" to the next word
> > e.g. " 'twas quite an evening" , " 'tis time for sleep" (like in
>
> Tisn't! Always be argumentative-like. We pyrates be socialists that flout
> authority.
>
> > Christmas songs)
> > Use the term "pray" instead of "please" e.g. "Pray, hand me that pistol"
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> Polite be right out!
>
> > Use "be" instead of "is" e.g. "There be treasure on this island"
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> Thar be treasure. Pronounce the "arrrrrr" so far back in yer throat that ye
> swallow it.
>
> > Use singular case of verb frequently for plural usage e.g. "They wants a fair
> > wind"
> > Drop the "f" in the word "of" e.g. "bit o' luck", "pack o' thieves"
>
> Bloody Irish pyrates, I be thinkin'. I be havin' a cousin named O'Thief,
> methinks.
>
> > Try an "a" and drop the "g" on "ing" verbs e.g. "He's a-scrubbin' the pots"
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> Yer conjugatin' agin.
>
> > Use "nary" instead of "none" or "zero" or "hardly" e.g. "There be nary a • soul
> > on board"
> > Replace "thought" with the word "thunk" e.g. " 'E thunk 'e left me peg leg • in
> > the crow's nest"
> > When talking numbers, tell the tens place last, e.g. "four and twenty" • or "one
> > hundred six and forty"
> >
> > What Pirates Call One Another
> > buccaneers
> > cutthroats
> > sea-dogs
> > seafaring men,
> > sea men
>
> Ye left off corsair, ye sea-dog! Been samplin' too much grog.
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> I be a-wading through the rest o'yer list at 8 bells. Splice the mainbrace in
> the meantyme...
>
> The Corsair
Aye,
Thanks for the corrections. Sure and certain, I always thought Corsair
were a type of ship, but Webster uses the word for both a ship and a pyrate.
One quick question regarding me frequent conjugatin' of the verb "to be."
Does anything happen in the past and future tense? These sound right to me
but I be makin' em up on the fly.
Past Tense: She were a-swabbin' the deck a fortnight ago.
We was 'ere at the cove fer many a night.
Future You will be 'ung from the yard-arm in a weeks time.
What 'appens to me contractions? Be they manifestations of a later grammar?
Markus
They's no greater pop-culture pyrates than these that rides the wind of Lego.
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| (...) Corsairs were the pirates of the Mediterranean - specifically of the Barbary coast (what is now modern-day Libya). Buccaneers were a group of pirates that originated on Hispanola - but the term later became used in a general sense for (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Arrrr, ye be violatin' the rules awready, ye lubber. This be 'im, Cap'n. Ye be conjugatin' the bloody verb. (...) Aye! Uh, nay, arrr, this be a trick question. (...) Aye-aye, Cap'n. (...) Tisn't! Always be argumentative-like. We pyrates be (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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