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Talk Like a Pirate Day Sept 19th!!
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:15 pm
by Calisson
I was wondering why Underway had in his signature:
And don't forget International Talk Like a Pirate Day Sept 19th!!
Is it because of this?
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:27 pm
by The shadow king
ARRRRRR
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:46 pm
by Dalamar
yarr matey!
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:39 pm
by Gethsemane
Ye found our secret treasure trove. Protect its secret with yer life matey!
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:46 pm
by Zardock
They don't have talk like a pirate day in France?
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:44 am
by Calisson
Zardock wrote:They don't have talk like a pirate day in France?
Non.
Tonnerre de Brest et mille sabords!
But see Tintin companions's odd swears.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulair ... ne_Haddock
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:08 am
by Zardock
Calisson wrote:Non.
Tonnerre de Brest et mille sabords!
All I know is you said no... I haven't spoken French since the 2nd year of highschool and that was a good long 5 years ago now, so it's very very rusty...
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:11 am
by Layne
In English versions he says ten thousand thundering typhoons. Or, Billions of bilious blistering blue barnacles. THe rest of the insults [dig that wiki, even in French!] seem to be fairly direct translations, except for that where Haddock says Kanak, for some reason we get Polynesian.
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:44 am
by Calisson
Zardock wrote:Calisson wrote:Non.
Tonnerre de Brest et mille sabords!
All I know is you said no... I haven't spoken French since the 2nd year of highschool and that was a good long 5 years ago now, so it's very very rusty...
did you try Google's translations?
http://translate.google.fr/translate_s? ... l=en&tl=fr
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:19 pm
by The shadow king
The google translator IMO is kind of . . . Erratic one time I translated a Polish text and got that infantry used killer whales to fight off cavalry
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:49 pm
by Comrade igor
The Shadow King wrote:The google translator IMO is kind of . . . Erratic one time I translated a Polish text and got that infantry used killer whales to fight off cavalry
I'd blame the polish rather than the translator. Their tactic were always quite audacious yet ultimately rather naff.
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:33 pm
by The shadow king
No actually it was talking about infantry in general using killer whales to fight off enemy cavalry
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:32 pm
by Calisson
Svarthofthi wrote:give our corsairs your thanks today as its International Talk Like a Pirate day. They provide for our way of life.
Yep! Time to revive a yearly thread.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:29 am
by Layne
Yar. Walk the plank, swiving poltroon.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:38 pm
by De_te
Why are pirates called pirates?
Because they ARRRR
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How many pirates does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, otherwise they would end up ARRRRRguing about it!