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Arrrrrrrr, ye Skype "talk like a pirate" language file

By My status Jaanus on September 19, 2006 in Skype around the world.

To celebrate the [International Talk Like A Pirate Day](http://www.talklikeapirate.com), and to showcase how you can customize Skype yourself if you're bored of the default texts, we bring you the [Skype "talk like a pirate" language file](http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=64398). Just [download the file](http://forum.skype.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=6523) and then in Skype, click "Tools", "Change Language", "Load Skype Language File". Click on the picture to see the larger texts, shipmate.

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Credit for this goes to Claudius who maintains the [German Skype blog](http://share.skype.com/sites/de/) and our eBay friend [Adrian](http://perfcap.blogspot.com/). :-)

set sail shipmates mayday

See also the [Skype Strings distribution on our Developer Zone](https://developer.skype.com/Download/SkypeStrings). UPDATE: see also [how to talk and type like a pirate](http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003590.html)

We need more special editions of the Skype language texts. Have you made one? Or will you? Please post your links and comments.

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Y'aaarrrrr. I love it!

A little joke for you:

Why are pirates called pirates?

Because they arrrrrrrr!

srobesky | Tuesday, Sep 19

A short pirate story - in 1607 a crew of Algerian pirates raided the village of Baltimore, West Cork. They raped and pillaged before capturing many women into slavery. Only the fair, English settlers were taken - the local women were spared because of their fiersomeness. Poem by Thomas Osborne Davis - http://www.baltimore-ireland.com/heritage/sackpoem.html.

triona.carey | Tuesday, Sep 19

I'm a Mac pirate so...no way to change my language.

dr.maxx | Tuesday, Sep 19

I'm a Newfoundlander Mac Pirate. I'd like to have a Newfoundland language file for Skype.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m-y-qAbpL0

randydecker | Wednesday, Sep 20

Hahaha. Now that Made my day. Genus... Pure Genus!

liftereyes | Wednesday, Sep 20

Is there any way to change the language in Skype on mac?

saxsux | Sunday, Sep 24

~Pirate. And what arrr you? ^^

distelpalme | Thursday, May 29

When I download the pirate language, I get "The information string sF_USERENTRY_BUTTON_PREV=

jc.randall | Monday, Sep 22

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