Happy talk like a pirate day! I found out abuot this nearly useless holiday myself three years ago, but ever since then, I've loved it. Who doesn't like to talk like a pirate? The accent is just so unique and memorable.

For those who want more info, here's the aptly named site.

Did you know about this day? Are you excited to start talking like a pirate and have a reason? Have you started talking yet?

Well then, shiver me timbers! You scallywags better start now, before I shanghai you all for munity!

Yea I knew about today! At my school people for some reason get into it, I found out about it last year. But yarr, back to mi classes.

Aarrrrrr, mateys!

woot, that's so cool :D talk like a pirate XD yeah, it's fun.

Yarr, those dern ninjas and their jumpin' and flippin'. Dey come and jumpen us durin ahr pillagin' and begun battering us like no temorrah. Ona dem chopped ma peg leg clean off. Alway be on da lookout for those scalleywags in black sheets. Yer booty is never safe dees days anymore.

Kurisukun, you don't happen to be a pirate, do ya?

no i don't know pirate talk. pardon me.

kurisukun85

Yarr, those dern ninjas and their jumpin' and flippin'. Dey come and jumpen us durin ahr pillagin' and begun battering us like no temorrah. Ona dem chopped ma peg leg clean off. Alway be on da lookout for those scalleywags in black sheets. Yer booty is never safe dees days anymore.

*rofl* That sounds fantastic! *laughing tears*

Me personally had never heard of this day, but it sounds pretty interesting!

Hooray! I get to finally bring out my pirate day keyboard! Rrrrrrrr!



Here's a tutorial for those not familiar with pirates and their vernacular.

* Ahoy: Hey!
* Avast: Stop!
* Aye: Yes
* Black spot: to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for death.
* Booty: treasure
* Buccanneer: a pirate who be answerin' to no man or blasted government.
* By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!
* Cat o' nine tails: whip for floggin' mutineers
* Corsair: a pirate who be makin' his berth in the Med-...Medi-...that sea 'tween Spain and Africa, aye!
* Davy Jones' Locker: the bottom o' the sea, where the souls of dead men lie
* Doubloons: pieces of gold...
* Fiddlers Green: the private heaven where pirates be goin' when they die.
* Furner: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an' plunder.
* Gentlemen o' fortune: a slightly more positive term fer pirates!
* Go on the account: to embark on a piratical cruise
* Grog: A pirate's favorite drink.
* Jack: a flag or a sailor
* Jolly Roger: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!
* Keelhaul: a truly vicious punishment where a scurvy dog be tied to a rope and dragged along the barnacle-encrusted bottom of a ship. They not be survivin' this.
* Landlubber: "Land-lover," someone not used to life onboard a ship.
* Lass: A woman.
* Lily-livered: faint o' heart
* Loaded to the Gunwales (pron. gunnels): drunk
* Matey: A shipmate or a friend.
* Me hearty: a friend or shipmate.
* Me: My.
* Pieces o' eight: pieces o' silver which can be cut into eights to be givin' small change.
* Privateer: a pirate officially sanctioned by a national power
* Scallywag: A bad person. A scoundrel.
* Scurvy dog!: a fine insult!
* Shiver me timbers!: an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.
* Son of a Biscuit Eater: a derogatory term indicating a bastard son of a sailor
* Sprogs: raw, untrained recruits
* Squadron: a group of ten or less warships
* Squiffy: a buffoon
* Swaggy: a scurvy cur's ship what ye be intendin' to loot!
* Swashbucklin': fightin' and carousin' on the high seas!
* Sweet trade: the career of piracy
* Thar: The opposite of "here."
* Walk the plank: this one be bloody obvious.
* Wench: a lady, although ye gents not be wantin' to use this around a lady who be stronger than ye.
* Wi' a wannion: wi' a curse, or wi' a vengeance. Boldly, loudly!
* Yo-ho-ho: Pirate laughter

^^Small keyboard

Yarr! I be wearin' me trusty tricorne an' talkin' th'piratical talk t'day in th'office, much ta th'confusement o' me landlubber coworkers! P'rhaps I'll be needin' ta keelhaul 'em afore the day's end!

Thar be another site fer yas gents an' lasses what want ta talk like pirates: Talk Like a Pirate Day
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties, yahar!

Lol yeah heard about it. XD
Kinda cool idea to invent such a day.. hihi

Yaarrr matey!!

Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.. * sings and drinks rum while running around a bonfire *

Like almost all of my friends didn't know it was talk like a pirate day.. And I told my english teacher that, and he knew.. How messed up is that... And I don't really like to talk like a pirate.

Wow Ive never heard of this before! Thats great! Arggg! lol! :D