http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

LOL who knew!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could feel it coming on the wind yesterday, perhaps thats made me go pleasantly insane. Today I am feeling vindicated!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy International Talk like a Pirates Day All, argghhhhhhhh(up)

Why are pirates, pirate? Because they ARrrrrrrrrrr.

Why are pirates studying for PhDs? Because they Arrrrrrrrrrrrr. 8-)

Note to Adm: We need pirate smileys. Would go with the tropical fish.

lol Olivia...

If I've seen this thread yesterday, I'd join the game and talk like a pirate. Maybe next year :-)

arrrrrrrrr indeed I think the best way o' survivin' a PhD is talk like a pirate! Ye've got to have a bottle of rum w' ye at all tymes, and yndyd ye've got to start spellyng lyk a pyryt as wyll! Y wuz gyng to wysh my sypyvyvysr a Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day but he had vanished. Y cyn only think of 2 rysyns for this---one, he knew what day it was and wanted to avoid me at all costs because he knew I would be celebrating the day! or two, he knew what day it was, and took off so he could talk like a pirate but didn't want anyone else to know? Arrrrrrrrrr tis a fine mystery! Avast, when Y ahoy him on Monday, 'll be makin me enquiries.

( sometimes if I open my window I think I hear people talking like pirates.....but no, its just the way they talk. Or maybe they ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR pirates.)

What do we get at the end of the PhD? A treasure chest full of gold? A map with the spot marked X? arrrrrrrrr

I am trying, but imagine every other word with a Devon accent instead. Cideeeerrrrrr instead of rum in that case :-)

Arrrrrrrrrr but Y am thynkyn that one of the fynest pyrats of all tyme came from Dyvyn dyd he not?

( Many of the accents in Britain are what are known as "rhotic" accents, in that they do not pronounce the letter R in words like car and forget and quarter. A New York accent in America is another example of a rhotic accent. By contrast, most American accents, a Devon accent, and Irish accents are not "rhotic"--the R in the word is pronounced. Then there is the thing called an "intrusive r" found in British accents, where the letter R, not pronounced in the words it is IN, confusingly gets added between TWO words where the first one ends and the second one begins with a vowel, so that Olivia and I is said Oliviar and I ...Pirates have to have a non rhotic accent, they have to SAY the letter R, so I think Devon is a fine place for pirates............saying Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr but not pronouncing the R sounds.......just not pirate like).

( What amazing trivia I have learnt while living in the UK!)

http://gangstaname.com/pirate_name.php

I'm Drownin' Prunella Dawkins with my real name. Hehe... or you can just call me Pru.

Arrrrrrrrrrrr y am thynkyn it would be fyne to just continue talking lyk a pyrat for syvral more dayz! Arrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no! no! :-)