{"id":2508,"date":"2021-09-19T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2021-09-19T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:27:37","slug":"tlap-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"TLAP \u2014 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Avast me hearties!! Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Me most favorite of all me favorite holidays \u2014 there\u2019ll be the usual Hornpipe ceremony later today and, as usual, when we show up at ye ole\u2019 neighbors\u2019 house for a grog, him will say me don\u2019t look like a pirate \u2014 that me should have a peg leg or patch so he\u2019ll know what\u2019s happening. Me will explain, again, today be talk<\/em> like a pirate, not look<\/em> like a pirate day\u2026. t\u2019 scurvy dog still won\u2019t get it. I\u2019m sure the streets here will be filled with landlubbers yelling salty sea dog phrases in each other\u2019s faces on this raucous day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonight me and me wench Claire will knock on all the doors in the neighborhood and yell, \u201carrr, scurvy dog I be needin to swill a pint or two of grog.\u201d If grog not forthcoming, me usually use the blige rat insult, or sometimes \u201cye scurvy dog!\u201d response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to diverge for a moment, today lots of people will adopt Devonshire accents and call each other \u201cme hearties,\u201d but is that what pirates really sounded like? Despite the fact that there has been a flood of pirate discoveries recently, and we now know more than ever about the day-to-day life of pirates, we still don\u2019t really know very much about how they spoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently the Devonshire accent associated with pirates today comes from Robert Lewis Stevenson and later depictions of his character Long John Silver in Treasure Island<\/em>. For some reason, the world just assumed that all pirates should sound like Long John Silver \u2014 and, sound alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The (disappointing) truth is that pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy came from diverse backgrounds and pirates are not a cohesive culture or nationality that would have a developed  a speech pattern. We know there were English, French, Dutch, Moorish and African pirates \u2014 in fact, probably every nation and accent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hate to admit it, but a pirate (probably) sounded like the average sailor of the 18th century. I doubt that there is any single accent that is truly \u201cpirate.\u201d So in reality, we already talk like a pirate, every day of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no matter\u2026..
Talking like a pirate is fun \u2014 it gives your conversation a swagger and style denied to landlocked lubbers. So let\u2019s celebrate the day with a smile on our face and a parrot on our shoulder \u2014 and a pint or two of grog. Fair winds, me hearties!!
\u2014 30 \u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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