{"id":628,"date":"2006-09-18T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T03:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2010-09-22T20:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T03:52:03","slug":"international-talk-like-a-pirate-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"International Talk Like a Pirate Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.<\/a> The official Web site of International Talk Like a Pirate Day doesn’t go much beyond instructing you in the use of such basic pirate-talk<\/a> as “Ahoy,” “Avast,” Aye-aye,” and “Arrr.”<\/p>\n

But popular literature offers many more possibilities for creative pirate-talk that go beyond a few simple add-on words. Here are longer pirate-talk phrases (some with translations) from the ace writer of pirate-talk, Robert Louis Stevenson: <\/p>\n

There’s never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a’terwards, you may lay to that!<\/p>\n

We’re that near the gibbet that my neck’s stiff with thinking on it. — Things are not going particularly well.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stow that! Don’t you get sucking of that bilge.<\/p>\n

Ah, it’s a fine dance you’ll do, and it’ll look mighty like a hornpipe in a rope’s end at Execution Dock by London town, it will. — You are in deep trouble.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To extend the silliness further, below are some of the sayings of Nancy Blackett, Amazon pirate, terror of the seas (from the children’s book Swallows and Amazons<\/em><\/a>):<\/p>\n

Let’s broach a puncheon of Jamaican rum.<\/p>\n

Drink to the Jolly Roger, skull and cross-bones, death and glory, and a hundred thousand pieces of eight! But you aren’t a pirate, so you can’t drink to that.<\/p>\n

I’ll shiver your timbers for you if you don’t stop chattering, Peggy.<\/p>\n

Barbecued billy-goats!<\/p>\n

Let’s parley first and fight afterwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now grab a cutlass and shake a leg, and talk like a pirate for all ye’re worth. For if ye don’t, ye’ll find yerself in Davy Jones’s locker with the fish cleaning your bones for ye. Arrr!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. The official Web site of International Talk Like a Pirate Day doesn’t go much beyond instructing you in the use of such basic pirate-talk as “Ahoy,” “Avast,” Aye-aye,” and “Arrr.” But popular literature offers many more possibilities for creative pirate-talk that go beyond a few simple add-on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[548],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-talk-like-a-pirate-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}