Ahoy!
Atingimos o post
número 50, com mais de 3500 visualizações! E, para marcar esta altura
deste nosso canal de informações, separamos uma lição para nossos
marujos se inteirarem a respeito do "piratês", ou linguajar dos 7 mares.
Afinal, um bom pirata será reconhecido por bom uso da sua forma
peculiar de comunicação. No entanto, mesmo sendo uma linguagem mista (é
formada especialmente pela língua inglesa e acrecida de termos
multilíngues, com termos ingleses "espanholados" ou "afrancesados"), a
base fica sendo o inglês mesmo, onde a lição só fica de acordo em inglês
mesmo. Mas é totalmente compreensível, então tomem nota!
"First thing yer going to need to learn is the Pirate Alphabet.
Ayyy – means “What’s that?”
Be – means “is or are”
C – that would be “yes” in Spanish.
E – means “maybe”.
I – means “yes”
L – “Go to ‘ell!”
Q – That would be yer pony tail if’n you had one. That’s what they called them, don’t know why.
R – Everybody knows Arrr…
T – no thanks, I’d rather have grog.
That’s the
pirate alphabet, not exactly a literate bunch, the pirates, so they
don’t have quite as many letters as the rest of us use.
On a boat, they
use all sorts of funny words for different things. For instance, what
you might call a hole, we call the “scuppers”. That hole on the side of
my ship lets water wash off the deck in a storm. If you get blown
overboard, you’ve been scupper’d.
This pole with
the sails would be a mast, the one in the middle would be the
mizzen-mast. The little house at the rear of the ship would be called
the Forecastle, except we don’t use as many letters so we call it the
fo’c’s’le (folksel), the back would be called the Aftcastle or……af’s’le
(afsel).
Similar to
pronunciation rules, jobs like the Boatswain, we call ‘em a bosun. The
edge of the boat, the rails, normally called Gunrails… gunnels.
We pirates try
to speak as quickly as possible, get rid of as many letters as we can,
because as I said before, pirates are not exactly a literate bunch. So
To greet a friend you’d say “Ahoy Matey!”
To say good-bye you’d say “Fair Winds!” or “May the winds always be at yer back”, it’s a good luck blessing.
Now if you don’t like someone you might call him a “Scurvy Dog”. If you think they’re useless… they’re “Sharkbait”.
Someone who is
not a sailor is a “Landlubber” or “Lubber” for short, as I said before
you want to trim as many letters as you can.
Another good insult word is “Blaggard” or “Black Guard”, but again, I think you know the technique.
Now, if you’re
surprised by something you might say “Blimey!” or “Shiver me timbers!”.
Now shiver me timbers comes from… when all of a sudden yer ship is under
attack, cannonball hits, rocks the entire ship… shiver me timbers.
If you want
someone to stop you say “Avast!”…or “Belay that”. Belay means to stop
and if someone’s doing something you don’t like, you yell “Belay that!”
It comes from the wooden pins placed into the rails, they’re called
“belay pins” and you use them to tie down your lines, stops the sails
and the boom from moving around. Belay means to stop.
Pirates are also
known as Corsairs which is a French word, Buccaneer is a Spanish word,
or my personal favourite “Maritime Entrepreneur”. That one allows you to
avoid problems with the law.
If you sing a song, it’s a “shanty”, from the French “Chante” (pronounced shawntay).
A chest is where you’d put your treasure. A “Dead Man’s Chest” would be a coffin.
“Dead lights” would be your eyes. “Use your dead lights matey, its right in front of ya”.
“Lights” would
be yer lungs. If you want to scare someone, make ‘em real nervous you’d
say “I’ll slit you from liver to lights!” which means yer gonna cut them
in half.
When its time to
celebrate and you want to have a drink you “Splice the main brace”. If
you’re going to dance you “do a jig” or “a hornpipe”. It’s not just a
dance, but also an instrument used to blow people on and off a ship.
When the Captain approaches, the bosun would blow on the hornpipe, but
it’s also used to play music for dances."
