How To Be Speakin’ Pirate-Like
I have been carrying the “Talk Like a Pirate Day” across all of my blogs and this is the only one where I’m going to share with you… how to to be speakin pirate! At Aging Fabulous, you will find a little history of the day, on Shopaholics Daily, I have some pirate grub for you to try, and then on Her Accessories, I have everything from fashion to jewelry for the hunky pirate. On Weary Parents, I even dug up something for the little pirates in your life. Can’t forget them now can we??
So here’s a crash course on Pirate Talk…
* Double up on all your adjectives and you’ll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing. Pirates never speak of “a big ship”, they call it a “great, grand ship!” They never say never, they say “No nay ne’er!”
* Drop all your “g”’s when you speak and you’ll get words like “rowin’”, “sailin’” and “fightin’”. Dropping all of your “v”’s will get you words like “ne’er”, “e’er” and “o’er”.
* Instead of saying “I am”, sailors say, “I be”. Instead of saying “You are”, sailors say, “You be”. Instead of saying, “They are”, sailors say, “They be”. Ne’er speak in anythin’ but the present tense!”
Well, that gives you a quick course in talkin’ pirate, but that’s just scratching the surface. There’s a lot more you need to know if you plan on being a pirate for what’s left of the day.
2 Comments