T’ grrrreat day apprrroaches, arrr me hearrrrties.
Don’t be forrrgetin’ to pack an eyepatch and cutlass to get thrrrrough t’ day tomorrrrow.
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Do you think that it’s appropriate to dress like a pirate at a symposium which will be attended by the Vice-Chancellor?
Aye.
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Quidne est veritas?
Sorry, wrong thread. I thought this was “Talk Like Pontius Pilate” Day.
Quod est veritas?, I thought…
Arr!
“Quod est veritas?, I thought…”
Arrr! I be seein’ it written both ways, matey. But I always do be surprised that the “-ne” primoverbal interrogatory suffix be withheld from either version.
‘Course, if it’s “Talk Like A Pilate” Day, I could always be resortin’ to “Quod scribi, scribi.”
Arrr!
Speaking of Pirates, Here is Captain Feathersword doing his best Ross Wilson Impression
Arrr! Queen’s bishop takes knight. Mate in fourrr, matey.
Here’s a few from Grose’s The Vulgar Tongue. I’ve pocked them for their nautical or piratical flavour.
Admiral of the Narrow Seas – One who from drunkeness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite him.
To bring your A-e to an Anchor, ie Sit down.
I’ll bring him to his bearings – I’ll bring him to reason.
Bible – A boatswain’s great axe.
There’s heaps more if any of you want me to continue. Grose calls them sea-phrases.
Hope you enjoyed this.
Heh. I be thankin’ ‘ee, Paul! Great phrases.
phrases great ‘n good, Paul m’lad, but i’s action we want!! throats cut ‘n booty seized!
“What is Truth?” said Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
– Francis Bacon, buccaneer of letters, putative playwright