I am not a pirate.

[conuly]

Were I a pirate, I would be actively fighting this blatant pirate prejudice displayed by mocking my traditional accent. Arr.

I mean. Um. Die, landlubbers?

*sighs*

Okay, fine. Maybe I am a pirate. But I don't have to talk like one. *nodnodnod* Those days ended with "Connie wanna cracker?" in my infancy.

Comments

[conuly]

What, really? Who says?

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

The Stanford prof who did the series of lectures on the History of the English Language I have on MP3... I'd offer to YSI or Gmail it but it's around 18 hours long. Damn cool though, I'd never heard the "Bad Quarto" of the "To be or not to be" speech from HAMLET before.

Some links with offhand mentions, from a quick Google-

http://lists.spack.org/pipermail/wordup/2003/000702.html
http://cw.caret.cam.ac.uk/converse/anon/communities/Books!/thread4291858873426515.xml