Arrr! It Be Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Shiver me timbers, it be that time of the season again — that hallowed day where we be talking like scurvy bilgerats, it be International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Truth be told, mateys, we’ve been a bit busy here to celebrate it, what with us be planning our broadside against the 32-page monthly paper comic that’ll be commencing in a fortnight. The only Gold we’ve been chasing has been the editor in chief. Tis a pity, it is. If only we had something that screamed "pirate!" but tied in with our launch, something… something…
Arr, that be the stuff! Mister Grell, hoist the flag over the Jolly Roger!
Strange… Magnum P.I. looks different with that sword in his hand.
How come pirate women are never properly attired?
it probably starts somewhere with them being called 'wench' goes (downhill) from there
Ah, but if you go to any RenFaire you'll see "wench" has been more than reclaimed as an empowering word. The late great Leah Adezio was a member of the Wenches' Guild. And for the most part wenches at Faires dress splendidly.
well the above is a space pirate so all earth bets are off. And renfaire isn't all so historically acurate and I hate when people use it as an example (for anything). If its "renaissance fair" why are folks playing the parts of Robin Hood and his Merry Men? Or wearing lots of chainmail? Or jousting? Pirate wenches = slavegirl Leia
Maybe she feels she is properly attired. She is a space pirate, and this was decades before Firefly. The Jolly Roger probably had sucky HVAC.
My favorite RenFaire "cringe" moment is when people say "thank THEE" instead of "thank YE." Leah once told me they were asked to talk a certain way because that's what the tourist-types wanted. Robin and I woudl have fun going there and springing his ACTUAL English accent on the wanna-bes. :)
Actually, medieval scholars have determined that what we think of as "Ye" is actually "the" since what we mistook for the letter "y" actually is a symbol for "th" so, for example, "ye old inn" would be "the old inn" when spoken. So saying thank ye really means thank the not thank thee. As Adriane points out, an awful lot of Renfaire stuff isn't very Renissance or even accurately Medieval.
Or, even, not-creepy.