Today be a day for sayin ow tis like sea-goin folk

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:01 pm

Aharr and belay all that, ye vile bilgerats. You'm welcome to this thread, sez I, more'n welcome but, see, tis solely for those sturdy lads[1] as enjoy the buccaneer spirit when it takes em. So no Queens English, may it rot forebye wi a wannion.

Let loose the anchor, pull up a pew, crack open the brandy, light a pipe, mebbe Blind Peg'll rosin up er bow an spread frivolity for an hour while we souse. And there'll be double points for tellin jokes, mind.

[1] - by lads is also meant lasses, we being traditional creatures hereabouts when it comes to sexism.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:27 pm

Avast thar me hearties. If its pulling up a pew yer wantin'. What about a blind Pugh ?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:42 pm

Ne'r mind crack open the Brandy, pass the Port - there be a mole on the harbour wall.

Turn thrice round Charybdis widershins and ye'll meet Davy Jones in person so cast a hitch o'er the nearest bollard take a pull on the capstan and we'll sing a few chanties in the fo'csle tonight.

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:27 pm

Two points to the bosun there, an a bottle o port. Aharr. Blind Pugh, is it? .

What do puzzle me mightily, shipmites, as that our foreign brethren ere by, the Jonathans as t'were, do earken to presackly the same dialect from the likes of Johnny Depp without so much as battin an eyelash, yet with this thread they look on as if unnatural doings ad taken old. The which I do find passing strange. For sitting where I am sat, this be the self-same style o conversation as is eard along the docks o Bristow to this very dayan dower. Fred Wedlock, were ee still among us which sadly ee aint, would have felt isself entirely in is element. Rum, I think.

Rum I said, blast yr eyes. Pass a bottle or feel me wrath.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:34 pm

spot;1353886 wrote: Two points to the bosun there, an a bottle o port. Aharr. Blind Pugh, is it? .

What do puzzle me mightily, shipmites, as that our foreign brethren ere by, the Jonathans as t'were, do earken to presackly the same dialect from the likes of Johnny Depp without so much as battin an eyelash, yet with this thread they look on as if unnatural doings ad taken old. Which I find passing strange. For sitting where I am sat, this be the self-same style o conversation as is eard along the docks o Bristow to this very dayan dower. Fred Wedlock, were ee still among us which sadly ee aint, would have felt isself entirely in is element. Rum, I think.

Rum I said, blast yr eyes. Pass a bottle or feel me wrath.

Old Pusser 'tis then and ye won't find better.

littleCJelkton · Post by **littleCJelkton** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:41 pm

I thought Talk like a pirate day was supposed to be on sep 19th?

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:51 pm

littleCJelkton;1353894 wrote: I thought Talk like a pirate day was supposed to be on sep 19th?

Bosun, be so kind as to rig me some chains, we avan interloper.

Well ravage me wrinkly parts, I just bin n checked an dang if'n ee aint in the right of it. Oo'd a thought? A genuine Talk Like A Pirate Day, lads, shipshape an there in black n white. September the 19th as ever was. Well stone me.

Another rum, that calls for. And if Blind Peg don't strike up a tune pretty sharp, I'll think of other more sanguine uses to put er to.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:05 pm

Arrr, peg's not blind just has a bad leg. Is it bad luck t' have a women on rapscallions? Aye, me parrot concurs. :yh_ghost

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:09 pm

Enjoy!:

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:18 pm

CARLA;1353903 wrote: Arrr, peg's not blind just has a bad leg.That may explain the noisome goings-on round er ammock after dark then. I'd put it down to entirely other possibilities some of which nefariously included the ship's billygoat and the large round of Cheddar which went missing from the captain's pantry a month back. I'm still not convinced I was wrong.

littleCJelkton · Post by **littleCJelkton** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:44 pm

spot;1353898 wrote: Bosun, be so kind as to rig me some chains, we avan interloper.

Well ravage me wrinkly parts, I just bin n checked an dang if'n ee aint in the right of it. Oo'd a thought? A genuine Talk Like A Pirate Day, lads, shipshape an there in black n white. September the 19th as ever was. Well stone me.

Another rum, that calls for. And if Blind Peg don't strike up a tune pretty sharp, I'll think of other more sanguine uses to put er to.

Yeah has something to do with pastafarianism i heard

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:28 am

Were siezing your ship matey. Jump overboard or well kill you now. Argh and aye...

Post by **spot** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:56 am

Nomad;1354602 wrote: Were siezing your ship matey. Jump overboard or well kill you now. Argh and aye...

Are there any parts of the USA where the local dialect is considered old-fashioned, quaint or downright low and ill-conditioned? Because that's how the English are divided, and we of the West Country are generally regarded as the village yokels whenever we travel. Ooo arr, the rest of the country goes, you'm brought your 'arvester withee? And then they slap themselves and fall sideways laughing their silly heads off. Perhaps somewhere in the US gets a similar response?

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:13 am

And them eat mangel wurzels

littleCJelkton · Post by **littleCJelkton** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:10 pm

Dialect is usually associate with South vs North, Republican vs Democrat, or Country folk vs City Dweller. Not really that big of a divide now though as much as there are little pockets of country side in which there are boondock trailer parks in which the Dialect is either redneck or ebonic. Other than that dialects change region to region Boston, New York, and Philly all have a slightly different take on a simmilar accent, Chicago as well. Out west the valley's of California the accent in which Dude, totally, and rad derived are still a bit prevalent. In the far north of the lower 48 and in alaska their is a slight Canadian accent. In the south there is a emphasis on the vowles of a word, You Want to? becomes yAAA wAAAnt tOOO? And of course their is the inner city dialect that comes from "Being a Brotha" "In Da Hood"

Post by **spot** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:06 pm

But which labels its speaker a gormless halfwit object of mockery and derision the moment he opens his mouth, CJ? I'd always presumed Georgian qualified but I could be misinformed.

Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell.

He's from Georgia, so he doesn't speak the language very well.

Tom Lehrer, "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier"

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:37 pm

No, a Southern accent is lovely. A nice little drawl, and the way the vowels are pronounced.

I think accents, or dialects, now are more age based than regional-younger ones full of new idioms that are unknown to older people.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:41 pm

Nomad;1354602 wrote: Were siezing your ship matey. Jump overboard or well kill you now. Argh and aye...

"when does t' part start matey?"

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:51 pm

spot;1354623 wrote: But which labels its speaker a gormless halfwit object of mockery and derision the moment he opens his mouth, CJ? I'd always presumed Georgian qualified but I could be misinformed.

Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell.

He's from Georgia, so he doesn't speak the language very well.

Tom Lehrer, "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier"

West Virginia is the butt of many jokes regarding inbreeding and stupidity.

Post by **spot** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:20 pm

SnoozeAgain;1354629 wrote: West Virginia is the butt of many jokes regarding inbreeding and stupidity.Oddly enough I've heard of the place. Country roads take me home to the place I belong, and all that. I strongly suspect I'd most enjoy living for a while in the US if I were either there, with a spectacular view, or in a one-room bedsit in Greenwich Village. Either would be worthwhile.They're trying to build a computerised community, but they'll never make a zombie out of me. They'll try and make me study elocution because they say my accent isn't right, they can clear the slums as part of their solution but they're never gonna kill my cockney pride.

Cos I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy but my heart lies in old West Virginia. Though my hills are not green I have seen them in my dreams, take me back to those black hills that I have never seen.

The Kinks - Muswell Hillbilly

and yes, I lived in Muswell Hill for a while too.

The Kinks - Mountain Woman has a similar feel to it. Good stuff.

littleCJelkton · Post by **littleCJelkton** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:42 pm

spot;1354623 wrote: But which labels its speaker a gormless halfwit object of mockery and derision the moment he opens his mouth, CJ? I'd always presumed Georgian qualified but I could be misinformed.

Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell.

He's from Georgia, so he doesn't speak the language very well.

Tom Lehrer, "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier"

It is usually the middle of no-where ville trailer park, or in the middle of the inner city that you find the dialects that are associated with those who are stereotypically dim wits. In the country they your stereotypical Yokel country folk that are all about Beer, Guns and God. In the inner city the ebonic usages of "in Da hood" " I haven't seen you in a hot minute dog." are associated with people who are litterally as the definition of the word meaning a person who is very ignorant of things being a Nigger with a capital N. That is not to say all people in those areas that talk that way meet that stereotype but there are enough of them in pockets in just about everywhere in the U.S that you get these stereotypes.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:39 am

spot;1354615 wrote: Are there any parts of the USA where the local dialect is considered old-fashioned, quaint or downright low and ill-conditioned? Because that's how the English are divided, and we of the West Country are generally regarded as the village yokels whenever we travel. Ooo arr, the rest of the country goes, you'm brought your 'arvester withee? And then they slap themselves and fall sideways laughing their silly heads off. Perhaps somewhere in the US gets a similar response?

If some dialects are combined with slang and improper or lazy English some are difficult to listen to. Bronx NY, New Jersey, Bostonian. Southern dialect can go either way. It can be lulling and eloquent or trashy.

Post by **spot** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:48 am

Nomad;1354651 wrote: If some dialects are combined with slang and improper or lazy English some are difficult to listen to. Bronx NY, New Jersey, Bostonian. Southern dialect can go either way. It can be lulling and eloquent or trashy.

And yourself? What form of aboriginal Chocktaw do you disseminate across your own breakfast table in place of the Queen's English?

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:27 am

Ojibwe might be more accurate.

Post by **spot** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 3:03 pm

SnoozeAgain;1354663 wrote: Ojibwe might be more accurate.

From the pure reaches of the Mother Country, Snooze, all of you colonials speak a degenerate Pidgen these days. I recall being bemused the first time I heard Kennedy on the television. I could appreciate the vision but how on earth anyone got by with so restricted a vocabulary, that's what beat me. Had he ever been to school, I wondered?

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:48 pm

.....but how on earth anyone got by with so restricted a vocabulary.....

Ah ! so that's what held me back. I don't speak proper. That's why people just stare blankly at me

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:55 pm

Snowfire;1354686 wrote: Ah ! so that's what held me back. I don't speak proper. That's why people just stare blankly at me

They're just amazed at the size of your head. :sneaky:

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:07 pm

SnoozeAgain;1354688 wrote: They're just amazed at the size of your head. :sneaky:

I do frighten children and small dogs

Post by **spot** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:46 pm

Snowfire;1354690 wrote: [QUOTE=SnoozeAgain;1354688]They're just amazed at the size of your head. :sneaky:I do frighten children and small dogs[/QUOTE]Though by rights, of course, you shouldn't have had it out in the first place.

(Eric Morecambe, that one, I think)