[Sca-cooks] national talk like a pirate day

[Jeff Gedney]

>the pirates in our barony are some of the most ingenious 
>and hardworking people around.   hooray for pirates.

I dont doubt that.

AND I have no problem with Pirates as a persona concept, at all. 
Heaven knows that Pirates are period. 
But this whole "Pirate speak" isn't even historical, it is a creation of Hollywood! 

Like a lot of the "Piratey" things you see --Including the Skulls and crossedbones on everything from flags to hats to mugs, the Long John Silver argot is a product of theatrical convention, not of history. 

I, for one, who would love to see some serious and accurate SCA-Period Pirate portrayal, as opposed to the "Joke-Personae" so prevalent.

Unfortunately I have mostly seen way too many "pirate" personae that are based on a Hollywood fantasy interpretation, on an "Age of Piracy" (1670-1800) historical character, or (usually) a Hollywoodized treatment of an "Age of Piracy" historical character. 

It's exactly like basing a Celtic persona on Asterix the Gaul, 
and as accurate. 

Why is one OK for the SCA and not the other?

Capt Elias

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather 
wood, divide the work, and give orders.  Instead, teach them
to yearn for the vast and endless sea. 
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