[Sca-cooks] national talk like a pirate day

[Marcha]

As one other person said.....LIGHTEN UP!    Bertha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Gedney" <gedney1 at iconn.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] national talk like a pirate day


> >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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