Arrgh It be talk like a pirate day

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Arrgh It be talk like a pirate day

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Me young wench of a sprog made me aware when she updated her facebook language to English(Pirate). Headin for the Bar of Arr to lift an ale when NZ grabs the swag at the America's Cup today! Arrrrr!

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Shiver me timbers! Soon be time to splice the mainbrace ye scurvy bilge rats!
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I be in the right place. In an Inn in a sleepy Cornish fishing village! The barman thinks I be takin' the piss! Ahrrrrr!
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:lol:
Half my family talk like pirates all the time - rural/coastal Devon
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[quote="Emmeline";p="1810698"]Arrrr!!!

Ye can even do it in German me hearties!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/sounds/German_pirate.mp3
[/quote]

That just sounds like normal North German to me!

Reminds me of Helmut Schmidt.

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[quote="Emmeline";p="1810865"]:lol:
Half my family talk like pirates all the time - rural/coastal Devon[/quote]

They're all funny talkin' pirates up ere in narf devun. Does me ed in, it do. :nono:
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