Yer average garden variety English pirate was shipping from the West Country... and the stereotype of the pirate accent is derived from their local accent. That is the origin of the popular guessing game - pirate or farmer?
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
I want to pre-empt your asinine Pirate Day with the inconvenient truth.
- 19/09/2012 03:29:45 AM
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You're such an asshole.
- 19/09/2012 04:19:51 AM
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???
- 19/09/2012 01:58:25 PM
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I stop by at times and see if there is anything interesting to read.
- 19/09/2012 03:32:49 PM
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Y
- 19/09/2012 04:30:52 AM
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A
- 19/09/2012 04:31:13 AM
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Q: Who is a pirate's favourite Star Trek character?
- 19/09/2012 04:46:40 AM
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Q: What is a pirate's favourite animal?
- 19/09/2012 04:49:04 AM
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What's a pirate's favorite chemical element?
- 19/09/2012 04:51:54 AM
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What's a pirate's favorite open source statistics program?
- 19/09/2012 04:52:17 AM
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Who's a pirate's favorite member of the Fellowship of the Ring?
- 19/09/2012 04:53:05 AM
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these puns Arrrrr scraping the bottom of the rum barrel, me harties *NM*
- 19/09/2012 10:17:57 AM
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In all fairness, that wasn't real Star Trek, but Star Trek: The Next Generation *NM*
- 19/09/2012 01:39:50 PM
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And here I expected to find Jack making the jokes - Nate *bows in your general direction* :
- 29/09/2012 01:00:38 AM
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You promised me an Al Gore movie and now I expect you to deliver! 
- 19/09/2012 05:02:28 AM
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- 19/09/2012 05:02:28 AM
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A lot did, in fact
- 19/09/2012 10:34:43 AM
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The stereotype pirate accent is totally due to Robert Newton in Disney's Treasure Island.
- 19/09/2012 02:50:23 PM
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Trust me, if you think the pirate accent is an exageration you've not spent time in the West Country
- 19/09/2012 08:05:07 PM
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But the "arr", the poor grammar (like "me matey" and such) and the colorful words ARE the accent.
- 19/09/2012 10:42:30 PM
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When talking about an accent, the actual language doesn't occur to me
- 20/09/2012 12:13:20 AM
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But what if they got a nasty splinter or something. They'd have said Arrrgh then.
- 19/09/2012 11:16:31 AM
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Also, perhaps I say it as should not, but I do not think Cracked a reliable source.
- 19/09/2012 10:36:44 PM
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Cracked is not the only source that says pirates didn't talk like that. National Geographic did.
- 19/09/2012 10:40:16 PM
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