Avast! It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

International Talk Like A Pirate day website ^ | 9/19/14 | Me

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Do you mean like this?

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/robot-chicken/ass-pirates-of-the-caribbean

[llevrok]

[llevrok]

Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Kudos to anyone who learned to speak Somali for it.

[katana]

Just your basic Cornish (the Western most tip of England) accent pushed to the hilt.

[molson209]

Cheese and Crackers

[Waryone]

I don’t know about “Knead-hall,” but I’d like to have the bulk of the RINOs keelhauled.

[Uncle Lonny]

Actually pirate talk is 18th century seafaring English, or Hollywoods version of it. Here is the Real McCoy in this song about a privateer in the late 1700s.

Barrett’s Privateers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E45ee-1gMs

[60Gunner]

How can you tell if you're a pirate?

You can't tell. Ye just ARRRRRRRRRRRRR one.

Thanks to Dave Barry for starting this lovely tradition!

[twister881]

Punny stuff!

[twister881]

The Eddystone Light !

[Rinnwald]

Somehow I doubt the Irish brogue was adopted for stereotype pirates as late as 1950?

As Katana said, it was Cornish, not Irish.

Jon C. Hopwood on IMDB:

His portrayal of Long John Silver and of Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) created a persona that was so indelible that his vocal intonations created the paradigm for scores of people who want to "Talk Like a Pirate."

[skinkinthegrass]

"keelhaul RINOs"*Aye! Matey!* ..keelhaul 'em all. 👍

[Rinnwald]

In other words, speak like an illiterate Irish!

My kids are mostly Serbian and Irish.

I told them I'd understand if they were prone to liquor and sectarian violence.

[JRios1968]

He shouldn’t have mentioned plundering her booty

I’m just sayin’

[CARDINALRULES]

I remember that! Now if only I could remember who posted it.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I’m not talking about the movie. Just the stereotype. I don’t know Cornish but it sounds incredibly like Irish, and there could be a reason for that.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Too bad it doesn’t actually state English; can you link a reference?

Still sounds Irish to me.

We have others stating Cornish (never heard of that, so must be very isolated) based on a movie.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yup, so we get another true picture of what pirates really are.

Let’s not forget the Barbary Pirates 200 years ago beaten up by upstart Americans. They were Moslem (can’t get any worse).

[BeauBo]

Cornish is a Celtic language from England, one which has fallen out of use. It is from the Brythonic group of languages, close to Welsh.

As the English/Germans (Anglo Saxons) pushed the earlier Celtic people like Welsh and Scots further West, the Cornish speakers were the ones furthest South, in what is now called Cornwall.

[Rinnwald]

You’re right, they’re not that far apart. I wouldn’t take a currach on the Irish Sea, but somebody did.