Friday, July 3, 2009
Pirate Talk 101: The Last Part - Respectful Address, Toasts and Declamations
Modifiers and Nouns to express respect, praise or appreciation of your pirate brethren.
| Pirate | Translation |
| Questions | |
| Am I explicit? | Do I make myself clear? |
| As how? | How so? |
| Be that plain enough? | Is that understood? |
| Do I speak in reason? | Do I make sense? |
| Do you fancy ____? | Do you think / want? |
| How be ____? | How is it that ____? |
| How comes it ___? | How is that ___? |
| How say you (of/to ___) | What do you think of ___? |
| How’s she lie? | What’s the heading? |
| Is not this the truth of it? | Isn’t that truth? |
| See the course I lay? | Catch my drift? |
| What(ever) ails you? | What’s wrong? |
| What course should we steer next? | What’s next? / Now what? |
| What do you think you’ re about | What do you think you are doing? |
| What mean you by ___? | What are you ___? |
| What o’clock is it? | What time is it? |
| What say you to this? | What do you think? |
| What’s your trouble? | What’s wrong? |
| Where lays your course? | Where are you? |
| Who comes/goes? | Who’s there? |
| Who hailed you? | Who asked you? |
| Will you be pleased to ___? | Would you ___? |
| Positive Replies | |
| And with a will | I’m all for it. |
| As you say | Affirmation |
| VERB it is | “Drink, it is.” |
| Now there was a true word as ever was heard spoke | You speak the truth |
| That be about the measure of it | That’s about right. |
| There’s reason/sense in that | That stands to reason / Makes sense |
| True as death | Absolutely true |
| Negative Replies | |
| Never think it | Don’t even think it |
| That bite won’t take | That won’t work |
| Some might say one thing and some another | Diffuse a disagreement |
| That’s trifle | Unimportant |
| ‘tis no matter | It doesn’t matter |
“Boldness and drink are cornerstones of pirate life; the two merge neatly when strong words are spoken over raised cups.”
| Here’s to ourselves, the hold your luff, plenty of prizes and plenty of duff |
| To our next merry meeting |
| Curse all rovers who should ever give quarter to an Englishman |
| To the luck of the Brotherhood |
| A merry life and a short one |
| Of all liquor commend me to rum |
| A pirate’s life is the only life for a man of any spirit. |
| Pirate’s have no God but their money, nor savior but their arms |
| There’s nought like liquor for putting the devil into a man |
This primer was summarized from the book "The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers and Rogues" by George Choundas and available here.
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