Yaaarrrrrr!
Avast ye landlubbers and scurvy dogs!
Today be September 19th, so pop a parrot on your shoulder and grab a flaggon of rum as we celebrate 'International Talk Like A Pirate Day'.
Started in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers (more popularly known as Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy), what began as a joke soon grew into a worldwide phenomena, spreading across the internet into what has now become a widely recognised – if somewhat comical – holiday.
As Wikipedia so aptly puts it: an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, me hearty!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy. The holiday is a major observance in the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
If you don't have any parrots, boats or kegs of rum handy then fret not, as there are many other ways to enjoy International Talk Like A Pirate Day. For instance: did you know that Facebook can speak pirate?
How to set your Facebook language to ‘Pirate’:
- Log in to Facebook
- Scroll to the bottom of your page, and look for the language setting. It probably reads 'English (UK)'.
- Click on it, and you'll bring up a list of other languages
- Look just above 'English (UK)' and you should see 'English (Pirate)' (it's also quite fun to change it to 'Upside Down' language)
- Go to your profile. If it's worked, you'll have been promoted to "Cap'n". Head to the Home Port, and start enjoying Pirate Facebook!
Links:
A guide to talking like a pirate
http://www.yarr.org.uk/
Related Article:
Colander Controversy Of The Spaghetti Kind
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Ollys_Direction
Commented 56 months ago - 19th September 2011 - 14:27pm
Right, let's give this ago....
Ahoy, me hearty! Nay th' best at speak'n Pirate but I saw th' TT on Twitter an' I had t' give it a go! Me Facebook has b'n in Pirate English many times an' it can be really amus'n sometimes! This be really fun an' I could talk like this fer ages! We need t' have a Pirate event some day! Clic should become a pirate ship an' we should be th' pirates an' it should have mermaids, talk'n parrots, th' lot! I can't avast talk'n like this now! I wonder what me teachers would say if I went 'round talk'n like this. I'd probably g't th' mickey taken out o' me by th' other kids at school, mind. Oh unseaworthily well, it's someth'n t' do when you're lustily bored! think I better belay now or it will become an addiction.