Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Maybe you should all take some time a review this list of piratical expressions so that you will always be able to understand this Kaptin. (and know i didn't get these from talkpirate.com. these are things i really say!)

Stereotypical piratical expressions

Ahoy (there)!
Along the lines of 'you there'

Arr, (Me/My) Matey Hello

Swab The Deck Clean the ship's deck

Arrrrrr! The onomatopoeia of a pirate, as an exclamation for various different moods. See also arg

Avast! Stop, take notice.

Blow me down Expression of surprise (as in being blown off one's feet by a strong gale or a cannonball)

Keelhaul the swabs Tie the scrubber of the ship's deck to the keel of a boat. Typically the victim would be dragged along the underside of the boat where he would be badly cut by the sharp barnacles.

Shiver me timbers Expression of surprise (as in having the wooden timbers of one's ship "shivered" by a cannonball, in the archaic sense of the term "shivered")

Yoho(ho) Greeting

I'll Crush Ye Barnacles! A pirate threat.

Chock 'a Block Full; At it's maximum extent. From the situation where the pulleys of a block and tackle are touching.

Afore, Astern, Abeam towards the front, back, and off to the sides respectively

Port, Starboard left and right. Marked by red and green navigational colours or lights.

Point as in "points of the compass". A compass is divided into 32 points - 8 per quadrant. So "three points starboard" is about one-o`clock. Useful for specifying directions on international talk like a pirate day, especially in bars.

Pieces of eight From the spanish 8 real silver coin, which was sometimes scored into 8 segments to make change. Since the US dollar was originally valued at one of these, in US vernacular "two bits" = 25 cents.

Aye Aye Captain: Sayings by the Seamen when taking an order from the Captain of the Ship.

Har De Har Har! Sarcastic remark.

Yar Har Harrrr Greeting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pirate#Pirate_Quotes

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

SANCHEZ!

good to hear from you...
truelly...
i'm not just saying that...
really.

8:27 PM  

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