Sarky me lass, savvy comes from savvy verb 1. to know; understand. --noun 2. understanding; intelligence; commonsense. [18th century, from pidgin English, from Spanish sabe usted you know]
Arrr! You were right! I was sure 'twas from the French savoir. But all the online slang dogs agree with ye. *shakes fist* You win this round, me beauty.
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I made flyers of jargon for my customers, and I can't wait to see who celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day with me--woohoo!
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Avadaru and I have arranged for an announcement to be made at our school about talk like a pirate day...and I told my friend Laura about it, and she talked one of the late night 104.1 DJs into saying something too.
So I feel I've done my bit.
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I'm sitting here playing operator, writing "international talk like a pirate day" on the top of all the fliers with pirate jargon that I've printed out to distribute at work and at school. And I get to grab people as they come into the building and tell them about TLAP Day. Hope no one minds a student worker operator who tells people to talk like a pirate.....
operators really have lots of free time. I wanna be an operater when I grow up
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Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Ye need ta post like a pirate, or ye will be walkin' the plank! (Pirate face!)
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Aye, so it be. And indeed, tis a fair day to be speakin' like a pirate. Shiver me timbers, but yon lad and lasses here do be giving odd looks to one dressed as an honest pirate like meself. ARRRRR
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Avast! The day is half done and only now have the scurvy dogs stopped nipping enough to allow me posting.
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Arrgh, and when I went to go get me lunch, people were going "ARRGH! Yeah, talk like a pirate day!" and "yo-ho-ho" to me. Many of these lubbers know of this day!
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I be thinkin' that it mightn be a suitable gesture to follow the lead of Pirate Dave Barry - who might be celebrating "Talk Like a Pirate to Telemarketers Day."
Or, as he wrote: "scurvy telemarrrketers"
Tonight, if we get one of those calls...
TMKTR: Is __ at home?
Me: No one 'ere by that name. Who be callin?
TMKTR: Well, would you be interested...
Me: Lissen, laddie, I'm sittin 'ere with a bunch of me mates, a few kegs, and some muskets. We're looking for pillage and plunder. And we've got caller id - and a reverse telephone directory. I suggest you abandon ship before the boarding party arrives.
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Arr! I be sittin' in a cardboard box, waitin' for me Cap'n to sail us on to new shores. Avast! Blast! and rot his guts! It be days now since he abandoned ship and got himself ashore in the land of the Vikings. May it be that he be lost? Lying at the bottom of Davy Jone's locker, per'aps? Or holed up in some den of iniquity like yon Radisson City Center?
The lyin' dog!
Scurvy bloody leech infested bilge rat!
And here I be waitin' wit me best mate LavaLamp, hopin' that that weasel of a captain gets back to us in time to set sail in the good ship U-Haul afore the tides turn agin' us!
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*squawk* Any land lubbin one uv youse think its a bit peculiar that on "Talk Like A Pirate Day" there be a great storm, a hurricane, reachin the fair city of Pittsburgh, home of ye pirates?
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Arrrr, any of you scurvy curs be wantin' to see me cartoon celebrating this momentous occasion of piracy? Let me know, me hearties, and I shall scan it.
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Arrr... I be too lazy to register a pirate name, but I thought ye scurvy dogs would like to know that I saw a young buck with a tricornered pirate hat speakin' pirate lingo in my mess.... It was great... Yarrrrr.... Posts: 4816 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Well, I'll tell ye scabberous dogs what I been up to today.
Firstly, I got up and poured meself a fine cup o' grog. This lasted quite a while and made the next point quite good.
Then I went to class. Aye, class, mates. I found meself in Greek afore I knew what the bloody hell was goin' on, and I gave a rather inspired performance, if I do say so meself. I had an Astronomy quiz (and the grog was still flowin') and then Ancient Egypt (where the facilities were a-callin', but made it out in time).
I then found meself with a quick break wherein I finally ate something (a couple Wheat Thins, nothin' too big lest I start spoutin'), got meself another mug o' grog, and did some work. I had another class, Italian, which was by far the best 50 minutes o' me life. Every single thing that was said was absolutely hilarious, but fer the life o' me, I cannot remember what the hell happened.
I then came back home, had a fourth cup o' grog (I get the number by countin' cans, mates), and passed out fer a while. And then I be here.
Ye may be askin' yerselves, be this the end o' the day fer this poor wench? NO! Firstly, I be not a "poor wench," just a sometimes-misguided one. Second, and more important, I got plenty o' lootin' and plunderin' to be doin' yet tonight. I got a goin' away party fer one o' me best friends. She be goin' to England with them scurvy dogs to "study" or so she claims. I be knowin' better, though - she be goin' to plunder her weasly black guts out. And I be sad and jealous, all in one.
So what'll I do? I'll get meself another mug o' grog and drink meself senseless. Or possibly drink meself some sense
Avast! Ye'd better be talkin' some right pirate talk, else I'll be comin' after ye!
Yers in lots o' grog,
Bloody Mary Flint
Edit for spelling/coherency, so ye lubbers can make heads and tails o' me writin'.
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So how did Diosmel and I celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day? We went to see Pirates of the Caribbean, of course. Posts: 9945 | Registered: Sep 2002
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Aye, it's a right shame the nineteenth be a Sunday, as I'll not be being able ta bring me grog to me classes.
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If anyone was on the Pirates newsletter, the first issue went out yesterday looking for Beta testers. Man I love Sid Meier games. Posts: 349 | Registered: Feb 2004
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Arrr, a Sunday! I'll have to bring me boy's cutlass to work and make all my employees talk like pirates. Where's me wenchy shirt?
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Oh... there's... a... monkey in my pocket And he's stealing all my change His stare is blank and glassy I suspect that he's deranged!
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