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Line 68: {{quote\|"Vittles, sez you!" cried the captain, rolling both eyes. "Why, then vittles it is, sez I, wi' all my heart, aye, an' a flagon o'ale, devil a doubt, or Spanish vino, sa-ah! to wet our whistles, an' damn all, wi' a curse. Scupper me wi' a handspike." he added triumphantly. "else." }} ** One of the pirates speaks with a thick Welsh accent, but he's a one-joke character specifically put in to parody the labor union militancy that was common in Britain when the novel was written. Jokes about the [[Does This Remind You of Anything?\|Nautical Union of Piratical Employees]] striking in support of Red Robbo are just part of the deliberate [[Anachronism Stew]] in this novel. * Subverted, or at least general "sea talk" is subverted, in ''[[~~Discworld/Jingo\|~~Jingo]]''. A ship's captain tells Vimes "That yo-ho-ho stuff's for landlubbers, or at least it would be if we actually used words like landlubber. We don't say port and starboard. I've never even ''drunk'' starboard!" Part of this is just the captain twitting the profoundly non-nautical Vimes, though. After seeing Vimes throw the anchor and the ship's boats overboard to increase their speed and being told "to put on the brakes" to stop an imminent shipwreck on a lee shore, the captain is driven to use the word "landlubber" in legitimate anger for the first time in his life. * ''[[Miya Black Pirate Princess]]'' speaks like an educated and intelligent fourteen year old princess... unless she's really fired up, in which case she drops into pirate speak. * ''The Pirate Primer'', by George Choundas, is an actual guide for layman on how to Talk Like a Pirate and includes phrases found in many books, films, and television shows, as well as a few [[Real Life]] examples. Incidentally, there's an entire chapter devoted to all the subtle nuances behind "Arrgh!" Line 96: * Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew, a pirate-themed hip hop group ("Authentic pirate hip hop", if you will), features rhyming with excessive use of pirate-speak, songs combining gangsta rap with pirating, and party commands such as "Throw your hooks in the air!", and uses of "Arr!" or "Yar!" in place of more common words, such as "What" and "Yeah". * In [[Ray Stevens]]' "The Pirate Song", he voices two characters: a typical "arrrr!" type pirate who is frustrated at a normal-voiced pirate who wants to abandon his ways to sing and dance instead. * [[Filk Song\|Filker]] [[Tom Smith]] has four as of this writing: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjxCBBr6VQA "Talk Like A Pirate Day"], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0yjKA1o55M "Zombie Pirates In Love"], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3p_Kewu7jc "Hey, it's Can(n)on (Hermione Granger the Pirate Queen)"], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqLk86d02AA "A Pirate Christmas"], in all of which he performs in one (or more) pirate voices. == Myths and Legends, Marine or Otherwise == Line 102: == New Media, Swabbing the Deck Optional == * Time was, the main page of [[TV Tropes]] were changed ta pirate speak, for [[Talk Like a Pirate Day]]. If'n ye should believe in such tales, talk be heard that th'incident [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Pirate/HomePage\|be archived yet still somewhar 'pon that very wiki...]] AND THAR BE A GHOST IN IT or some such. * [[Facebook]] has an English(Pirate) language setting. In this setting, the language choice setting is called 'DON'T TOUCH THIS'. * [http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate As does] [[Google]]. Line 178: * Naturally, this be the form a speech used by Bikke in ''[[8-Bit Theater\|Eight Bit Theater]]''. ARRR, a scurvy dog be he, utterly illiterate and slow-witted to the last! * ''[[The Law of Purple]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20131124103757/http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/?pageID=355 Morgan], a Caligulan space pirate. * ''[[SomethingPositive]]'' [~~http~~https://~~www~~web.archive.org/web/20130510040350/http://somethingpositive.net/sp09192007.shtml Sometimes] remembers to celebrate: {{quote\|'''Aubrey:''' [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09192003.shtml Sorry, chummer! Methinks ye gots talk like a pirate day mixed up with swear like a sailor day.]}} ''The Repository of Dangerous Things'' features [https://web.archive.org/web/20120505133917/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Repository_of_Dangerous_Things/4863933/ Wanderin' Laurie]. If yer curious if she be a pirate, yer all kerrectly. Also, if ye remember proper terminology from yer Talk Like a Pirate Day, it can save yer guts. Line 230: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Talk Like a Pirate~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Pirate Tropes]] [[Category:Language Tropes]] ▲[[Category:Talk Like a Pirate]] [[Category:Self-Demonstrating Article]] [[Category:English language]]