Pirate Day...

[fajrdrako]

It is my intention to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day by not talking like a pirate. Pirates don't conform.

But I was delighted to find this delightful song by the talented filkertom which gave me a big smile to last me the morning. And thanks to pegkerr for pointing it out to me.

One way or another, many of my favourite characters are pirates of one sort or another - renegades and outcasts who go their own way, even when they are lords and kings.

So I'll raise my mug of rum to toast Captain Jack Harkness and Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Cairo Azarcon and Captain Charlie Allnut and all those other brave seafaring souls who elude authority and win the day.

Comments

Re: PS

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Yes - But it just amuses me that the film industry used to think that you could cast any American (even some with quite distinctive regional accents) and pretend they were Canadian!

Re: PS

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh, the terrible things that have been done to Canada and to Canadians in movies and film - one shudders to think. It's almost as bad as the terrible things that have been done to our twelfth century heroes and their society.

But my favourite offhand reference to Canada came from a British Esperanto text book as an example of the use of the conditional verb: "Se mi estus ricxa, mi vivus en Kanado." - "If I were rich, I would live in Canada."

I suppose I could say, honestly, "Se mi estus ricxa, mi vivus en Britujo." Or even Skotlando!