Trust me, if you think the pirate accent is an exageration you've not spent time in the West Country
snoopcester Send a noteboard - 19/09/2012 08:05:07 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.
The pirate link to the West Country is strong and pre-dates the era of film though - Drake, Raleigh, Dampier, Teach are all from that area (yes, I'm mixing privateers in with pirates, since the difference is purely down to perspective). During that era Bristol was the second largest city in England and the main port.
In terms of culture, we have Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan also pre-dating the film era.
I'm not going to dispute the words being made up, except the "arr" which is just over exaggerated, but the accent isn't unreasonable by any means and probably accurate more often than not for English pirates.
*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.
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19/09/2012 04:31:13 AM
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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* :
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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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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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