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Re: Help me with some vocabulary...
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 5 May 2000 14:36:57 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Markus Wolf writes:
> I'm working on a story about a reformed pirate who is still in search of
> a buried treasure. What would he refer to himself as? A privateer? (I
> think they're just pirates paid off by a government) A treasure seeker?
> (Kind of boring) Or is he just considered a ship captain?
Gold-digger (no, wait, isn't that Donald Trump's ex-wife)? Treasure hunter
(more of a modern term)?
Privateer would require a letter of marque and a ship. A ship's captain would
require that he was the captain of a ship. Neither would define him as a
treasure hunter.
I know! If he got his doctorate, he could call himself an archeaologist!
Should we switch this to lugnet.adventurers? :-)
Bruce
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| (...) Okay smart aleck! :O) Well here's the deal. He does have a ship and he does have a crew but no letter of marque. (That's an official document, right?) He's replaced the old skull and crossbones with a smiley face and a bow tie, though it's (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| I'm working on a story about a reformed pirate who is still in search of a buried treasure. What would he refer to himself as? A privateer? (I think they're just pirates paid off by a government) A treasure seeker? (Kind of boring) Or is he just (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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