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Re: Help me with some vocabulary...
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 5 May 2000 15:54:04 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Markus Wolf writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > 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?
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> > 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? :-)
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> > Bruce
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> Okay smart aleck! :O)
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> 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 close
> enough to the Jolly Roger to still intimidate folks from a distance) I know
> that a bow tie is out of it's time zone, but it's more of a comic story for
> kids.
Then he be a Cap'n. Wif'ou' Letters o' Marque an' Reprisal from offishals uv
da King, he ain't a Privateer. 'Taint 'gainst the law ta be seekin' treasure,
but thar might be prior claimants or ye may only claim a portion (assumin' ye
report it, o' carse). Be a tricky point o' law, I be supposin'. A reformed
pyrate, in truth, be whut scholars call an oxymoron. Or tha guv'nor o'
Jamaica. :-)
Cap'n Redbeard
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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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