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General Discussion Ahoy, maties! Shiver me timbers! Guess what today is?

I'll be sharin' a bit o' me past with ye. When I became a Chief, I be asked a question what I could only answer one way in me best pirate voice. The question be, "How long have you been in the Coast Guard?"

All me bloomin' life
Me mother be a mermaid
Me father be Neptune himself
I was born on the crest of a wave
And rocked in the cradle of the deep
Barnacle and kelp be me clothes
Seaweed is me hair
Every tooth in me head is a marlin spike
Every bone in me body be pure spar
When I spits, I spits tar
I be tough, I am, I is, I arrrgg!

Happy Talk like a Pirate Day, landlubbers! Now make ready the sails, yuh mangy bilge rats or I’ll keel haul the lot o' yuh!.
 
suspensewriter said:
I can't believe that is a day!!
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LOL Yup! It's been "a day" for YEARS! Older than MySpace. The Britannica says...

"In June 1995 friends Mark Summers and John Baur were playing a game of racquetball when they randomly started chiding each other in “pirate slang” (the romanticized version of pirate speech that has grown from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and on-screen portrayals of pirates by actor Robert Newton, among other influences). The pair decided they would spend an entire day talking “like pirates” for fun.

The date of the annual celebration—September 19—is fairly arbitrary. It is the date of Summers’s ex-wife’s birthday, selected because it didn’t coincide with any other observances and because it would be easy for him to remember. The holiday was mostly celebrated among friends for several years, until it was popularized by syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002."
 
I remember when I was a small child, I went with my father to a local movie theater, where we watched Walt Disney's movie Treasure Island, with Robert Newton as Long John Silver.
Several years later, think I was in the sixth grade when I read and wrote a book report on the original novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Then many years later, when I was in my forties, I read the novel again. Then I was truly impressed with the quality of the writing. That was something I would not have recognized when I was 11 years old.
I wonder, are classic literary books being recommended for children going to school today?
 
Ahoy! @AHumbleWarrior has beaten me to the reference, but what a shame that be, mateys! I was a-lookin' forward to a good old keel haulin'!

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lynnmosher said:
Talk like a pirate day!
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"I just finished torrenting music and eBooks off that new BitTorrent network..."

..Oh, you mean talk like the other kind of pirate? 😏



Consequently, I'm watching that new Netflix series "One Piece," about a pirate world (based on a popular Japanese anime). I started the first episode and gave up on it after about ten minutes. It felt like it was going to be another woke piece of trash.

A week later, my favorite YouTube commentator, The Critical Drinker, said it was a lot better than he thought. So I gave it another try. Crazy, because a few minutes after the point I had stopped, the woke character that made my eyes roll got quickly and hilariously dispatched. The show got a lot better after that.
 
In Accord's little clip, the pirate uses the word "savvy." I don't think that was pirate lingo, as it came from the Spanish word "sabe," meaning "you know."According to etymonline.com, it became a slang word around 1785. (Or it could have sourced from French "savez", with the same meaning.) The Golden Age of pirates was roughly 1700-1725, according to ThoughtCo.com.

Sorry to be two days late and dump bilge water on Accord's post.
 
LOL Not trying to check up on you, Carolina, but just wanted to look at those sources you mentioned. Then I googled it and got all sorts of originations and dates. :D
 
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