The stereotype pirate accent is totally due to Robert Newton in Disney's Treasure Island.
Tom Send a noteboard - 19/09/2012 02:50:23 PM
He was from the West Country, but the pirate accent is a gross exaggeration of that, and the words used were, as the article points out rightly, mostly invented by Robert Louis Stevenson. It's about as accurate as having "Talk like a Knight Day" based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
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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- 19/09/2012 04:30:52 AM
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- 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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