Ninme draws our attention to the fact that we should be buckling our swashes and splicing the mainbrace; today is International Talk like a Pirate Day.
The TLAP website has a handy translation device which rendered these fine words of Sir Winston Churchill into pirate; the close proximity of the translation to the real thing suggests that the old man had more than a touch of the buccaneer about him:
We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on t' t' end. We shall fight in France and on t' seas and oceans; we shall fight with growin' confidence and growin' strength in t' air. We shall defend our island whatever t' cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landin' grounds, in fields, in streets and on t' hills. We shall never surrender...
Unfortunately, Mr Seat, you are a day late.
However, as regards WSC's buccaneering tendencies, I am certain that the last line should read:
"We shall never surrend..... AARRRRRR!"
He might even have typed it on this handy keyboard:
http://ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/piratekeyboard.jpg
Toodle Pip!
PG
Posted by: The Pedant-General | September 20, 2005 at 05:49 PM
Isn't it fun?
Posted by: ninme | September 20, 2005 at 08:39 PM
Shiver me timbers! An' you'll all know, me lads, that the only word in that Churchill speech, the only one mark you, that comes from the Frenchies' tongue, be "surrender".
Ar, buckets o' blood.
Posted by: dearieme | September 28, 2005 at 06:58 AM